Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer, Anduril Industries
$168-252k
+ equity
Office located in Costa Mesa, California
Hardware and software for national security
Job no longer available
Hardware and software for national security
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$168-252k
+ equity
Office located in Costa Mesa, California
1001+ employees
Company mission
To defend against America's national security challenges to create a safer future for the nation.
Role
Who you are
- Have at least 2 years experience working in AI infrastructure
- Are opinionated about software systems design, engineering and operation
- Have experience deploying complex infrastructure to production
- Strong proficiency in Python
- Experience with cloud and on-prem infrastructure with Kubernetes orchestration
- Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Secret Clearance
Desirable
- Experience working in small teams such as a high-growth startup
- Experience with modern build and deployment tooling such as Nix and Terraform
- Ability to rapidly adapt and perform as a generalist when needed
- Experience with LLM deployment kits (such as vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, etc.)
- Experience with CUDA C++
What the job involves
- The Software Engineer - Frontier AI - Infrastructure role, in particular, focuses on infrastructure challenges as it pertains to the productization of frontier AI technologies on edge and air gapped environments. At a high-level, the role is expected to specialize in build, performance, deployment, evaluation, hardware and related problems
- Optimize our AI infrastructure for deployment on the edge in a heterogeneous set of environments: on a mesh, on drones of various sizes, in an edge-computing deployment in a shipping container, and more
- Develop industrial grade build infrastructure and deployment pipelines for our AI models and applications
- Build evaluation pipeline for various large pre-trained models
- Advise our hardware teams on requirements for deployment
- Develop real-time observability and data collection pipelines to monitor AI systems in production
- [Bonus] develop custom performance optimized models for edge and air-gapped deployment, and for production-grade latency, resource and accuracy performance
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
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Aug 2024
$1.5bn
SERIES F
Dec 2022
$1.5bn
SERIES E
Total funding: $3.7bn
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
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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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