Field Reliability Engineer - Undersea Reconnaissance & Strike
Anduril IndustriesBase Salary
$166k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Diagnose field-reported anomalies across vehicle subsystems rather than only the reporting location.
- Replay recorded sensor and mission data through live pipelines and visualization tooling to reproduce failures.
- Use service metrics, dashboards, and centralized logs to reconstruct system state during incidents.
- Validate fixes in simulation and hardware-in-the-loop environments before deployment to real vehicles.
- Implement tested fixes in the applicable Rust, C++, Python, or Go subsystem and ship them through normal versioned rollouts.
- Distinguish between software bugs, configuration problems, and deployment mismatches and resolve issues at the correct layer.
- Document root causes and fixes, identify missing tests, and help create the team’s on-call and triage runbook.
- Escalate issues to owning teams when subsystem-level changes are required.
Requirements
- Experience debugging code written by others 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 and metrics and reproducing issues offline from recorded data.
- Hands-on exposure to observability tooling such as Prometheus/Grafana-class metrics and Loki/ELK-class logs.
- Linux and systems fluency, with declarative or immutable operating-system experience such as NixOS a bonus.
- Ability to clearly document root causes and fixes.
- Willingness to work close to hardware and sensors without requiring prior maritime or robotics experience.
- Willingness to travel 25% or more of the time on average.
- Robotics middleware, sensor-driver, or real-time data-pipeline experience is preferred.
- Simulation-in-the-loop or hardware-in-the-loop testing experience is preferred.
- CI/CD and versioned deployment experience for embedded or fleet software is preferred.
- On-call or field-support experience for hardware deployed to real users is preferred.
Benefits
- Competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to full-time employees.
- The posting states that the role is full-time and that equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers.
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.