Software Technical Lead Manager, Anduril Industries
Simulation
$196-294k
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Hardware and software for national security
Open for applications
Hardware and software for national security
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$196-294k
+ Equity Grants
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To defend against America's national security challenges to create a safer future for the nation.
Role
Who you are
- At least 2 years of experience leading a software engineering team, including performance management, task planning/execution (Agile, etc.), and mentoring software engineers of varying levels and strengths
- At least 5 years of experience designing and building high-scale cloud infrastructure, compute platform, and/or deployment infrastructure technologies
- Experience using Kubernetes or other containerization technologies
- Experience in a backend development programming language such as (but not limited to) Golang, Java, or C++
- Experience maintaining a production software stack with strict uptime and support SLAs
- Must be eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret clearance
Desirable
- Experience in industries such as robotics, autonomy, or simulation
- Experience building testing or data analysis platforms and end-user tooling
- Experience collaborating with product designers and frontend engineers to design smooth, intuitive user interfaces and workflows
- Experience deploying software to a restricted, air-gapped, or on-premise environment
- Experience owning an external customer-facing software product
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or an engineering discipline
What the job involves
- Anduril’s Simulation software group is seeking a Software Technical Lead Manager to lead our Software Integration Environment (SIE) team
- The SIE team owns a compute platform aimed at simulation testing/software-in-the-loop workflows
- The SIE team owns the end-to-end design, development, and deployment of the platform
- The technical challenges range from UI/UX to compute technologies such as live migrations or virtual networking, to release management and high-side deployment
- The SIE platform is used heavily internally by Anduril R&D teams, and deployed externally as a user-facing product
- Our goal is to be the compute one-stop-shop for Anduril's internal teams and customers
- As a Software Technical Lead Manager, your role is to be both the engineering manager and technical lead
- As the technical lead, you will own the technical/product vision and roadmap of the SIE team, uphold the technical bar, and provide technical mentorship and growth to team members
- As the engineering manager, you will work alongside other software leads and business line leads to ensure the SIE is utilized to its fullest potential, and grow the SIE team appropriately
- Develop and implement the product roadmap of the SIE team, in collaboration with SIE stakeholders to plan timelines accordingly
- Collaborate across organizations (design, business development, security) to deliver the SIE as an external-facing Anduril software product
- Uphold the team's technical bar by performing design/code reviews and providing technical mentorship
- Own the SIE's infrastructure stack and release management to ensure the SIE is easily deployable to new use cases, including in offline/air-gapped environments
- Team management
- Manage and provide career mentorship to a team of 8-12 software engineers
- Grow the team appropriately to handle the growing user base and demands
- ~30% of the time will be hands-on coding/independent contribution
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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Insights
68% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Feb 2025
$2.5bn
SERIES G
Jan 2025
$14.3m
GRANT
Total funding: $6.2bn
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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