Lead Mission Software Engineer, Anduril Industries

Connected Warfare

Salary not provided

Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package

JavaScript

Python

Java

C++

Rust

Senior and Expert level

London

Hardware and software for national security

Open for applications

Hardware and software for national security

1001+ employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceSecurityEnterpriseDronesAerospace

Open for applications

Salary not provided

Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package

JavaScript

Python

Java

C++

Rust

Senior and Expert level

London

1001+ employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceSecurityEnterpriseDronesAerospace

Company mission

To defend against America's national security challenges to create a safer future for the nation.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in areas/fields such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics
At least 6+ years working with a variety of programming languages such as Java, Python, C++, Rust, Go, JavaScript, etc
At least 2+ years previous experience as a technical lead or people manager of software engineers
Experience building software solutions involving significant amounts of data processing and analysis
Ability to quickly understand and navigate complex systems and established code bases
Experience working in a customer / client facing role
A desire to work on critical software that has a real-world impact
Ability to travel to client sites
Eligible for SC Clearance

What the job involves

The Mission Software Engineering team is responsible for building, deploying, integrating, extending, and scaleing Anduril's software to deliver mission-critical capabilities to our customers
As the software engineers closest to Anduril customers and end-users, Mission Software Engineers solve technical challenges of operational scenarios while owning the end-to-end delivery of winning capabilities such as Counter Intrusion, Joint All Domain Command & Control, and Counter-Unmanned Aircraft Systems
As a Lead Mission Software Engineer on the Connected Warfare team, you will help architect third party systems to seamlessly integrate with Anduril products while solving a wide variety of technical problems, making pragmatic engineering tradeoffs along the way
Your role sets the bar for the technical excellence our customers expect from Anduril
Above all, Mission Software Engineers are driven by a “Whatever It Takes” mindset—executing in an expedient, scalable, and pragmatic way while keeping the mission top-of-mind and making sound engineering decisions to deliver successful outcomes correctly, on-time, and with high quality
You'll bee a champion for Anduril capabilities within a customer environment
Develop architecture and mission vignettes
Iterate on core data mesh technology to make optimal use of degraded networks
Develop connectors and APIs for legacy and cutting edge systems to integrate with Lattice
Deploy software to non-standard environments
Create data flow pipelines that span horizontally and vertically across disparate networked systems and security domains

Salary benchmarks

Our take

Anduril makes hardware and software for defense agencies including the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security. Its hardware products include specialist drones with a long flight time and surveillance towers.

This hardware is tied together by proprietary software, the Lattice platform, which uses sensor fusion, machine learning, and mesh networking to integrate real-time data from Anduril hardware and third-party systems into a single, autonomous operating picture. While the hardware observes and detects, the software can make decisions as to the threat level of any anomalies, and so allow for observation and protection of an area or building with minimal manpower.

Anduril closed a Series E funding round in 2022 led by Valor Equity Partners. This funding was used for research and development of its autonomous defense products, such as the Roadrunner, a modular twin-jet powered autonomous vehicle that can take off and land vertically. Variants of the Roadrunner include defensive warhead armed interceptors which are the first drone weapons that can be retrieved after deployment. The company has also expanded to Australia where it is working in tandem with the Australian Defence Force to improve its military technology and infrastructure and is recruiting talent worldwide to support its rapidly growing portfolio of defense projects.

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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

68% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.3)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)

Jul 2025

$310m

GRANT

Jun 2025

$2.5bn

SERIES G

Total funding: $6.5bn

Company benefits

Full Family Health Coverage
16 Weeks Paid Parental Leave for All Caregivers
Family Planning & Support
Incentivized Time Off
Mental Health Resources
Financial Planning
Unlimited Provisions
Professional Development

Company HQ

Irvine Business Complex, Irvine, CA

Leadership

Brian Schimpf

(Co-founder & CEO)

Having studied at Cornell, they joined Palantir as an Engineer in 2007. They left after over 9 years in order to co-found Anduril in July 2017 as CEO.

Palmer Luckey

(Co-founder)

They founded Oculus VR in April 2012, where they worked until April 2017 when they co-founded Anduril.

Trae Stephens

(Co-founder)

Former Lead Data Analyst at LexisNexis for 2 years, prior to spending 5 at Palantir. They joined Founders Fund as a Partner in 2014, and co-founded Anduril in 2017.

Matt Grimm

(Co-founder & COO)

Studied Engineering at Cornell before working as a Booz Allen Hamilton Consultant and spending over 6 years at Palantir as a Forward Deployed Engineer. They worked at Mithril Capital Management and Classy.org before co-founding Anduril in 2017.

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