Sr. Mission Software Engineer - Undersea Reconnaissance & Strike
Anduril IndustriesBase Salary
$191k - $253k/yr
Responsibilities
- Investigate field-reported anomalies across autonomous vehicle subsystems and identify the layer where the issue actually originates.
- Reproduce failures using recorded sensor or mission data, live pipelines, visualization tooling, simulation, and hardware-in-the-loop environments.
- Use service metrics, dashboards, and centralized logs to reconstruct system state and diagnose root causes.
- Implement tested fixes in the relevant subsystem language and ship them through CI and standard versioned rollouts.
- Distinguish software bugs from configuration and deployment mismatches and resolve issues at the appropriate layer.
- Document root causes and fixes, identify recurring subsystem failures and missing tests, and help build the team’s on-call and triage runbook.
- Escalate issues requiring changes from subsystem-owning teams rather than patching symptoms.
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience debugging unfamiliar code under time pressure and with incomplete information.
- Working familiarity with at least two of Rust, modern C++, Python, and Go.
- Systems-debugging experience using logs, metrics, and offline reproduction from recorded data.
- Practical experience with observability tooling in the Prometheus/Grafana and Loki/ELK classes.
- Linux and systems fluency; experience with declarative or immutable operating systems such as NixOS is a plus.
- Ability to communicate root causes and fixes clearly in writing.
- Willingness to work close to hardware and sensors without requiring prior maritime or robotics experience.
- Willingness to travel 25% or more on average.
- Robotics middleware, sensor-driver, or real-time data-pipeline experience is preferred.
- Simulation-in-the-loop or hardware-in-the-loop experience is preferred.
- Embedded or fleet-software CI/CD and versioned-deployment experience is preferred.
- On-call or field-support experience for hardware deployed to users is preferred.
Benefits
- Competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to full-time employees.
- The role requires an average of 25% or more travel.
- Full-time offers may include equity grants, which are part of the total compensation package.
About Anduril Industries
Anduril is not a traditional defense contractor. We are shaping the future of defense, transforming US & allied military capabilities with advanced technology. We emphasize speed and results and control our products from start to finish, including funding R&D to selling finished products off the shelf. Today, Anduril is in a rapid growth phase, deploying technology in diverse locations and developing path-making products that will change defense forever. We believe that everyone at Anduril can be a catalyst. Your perspective can change lives, and we want to help you make your mark. Our team includes thinkers and doers working interdependently. We bring the brightest minds and best-in-class talent together with veterans who have lived the problems of our warfighters. If you like building quickly and seeing your work deployed in the real world, we want you at Anduril. With offices in Orange County, Washington DC, Seattle, Boston, Atlanta, London, and Sydney, our reach is wide. Check out our careers page at https://www.anduril.com/careers or send us an email at careers@anduril.com.