Mission Software Engineer, Anduril Industries

• If you are someone who is driven by a “Whatever It Takes” mindset - then this role is for you
• Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in areas/fields such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics
• 4+ years working with a variety of programming languages such as C++, Rust, Go, etc
• Experience building software solutions involving significant amounts of data processing and analysis
• Ability to quickly understand and navigate complex systems and established code bases
• A desire to work on critical software that has a real-world impact
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

Desirable

• The Air Defense team is responsible for building robots that find other robots and knock them out of the sky
• At a time when air superiority can no longer be taken for granted, the Air Defense Team provides mission critical capabilities to warfighters
• From detection to tracking, identification, deterrence, and defeat, our family of networked sensors and effectors enables our customers to rapidly close the kill chain against a broad range of Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) threats
• Working across product, engineering, sales, logistics, operations, and mission success, the Air Defense team develops, tests, deploys, and sustains the Anduril Air Defense Family of Systems (FoS) in challenging operational environments worldwide
• We are looking for a Mission Software Engineer to join our rapidly growing team in Costa Mesa
• In this role, you will be responsible for solving a wide variety of problems involving networking, autonomy, systems integration, robotics, and more, while making pragmatic engineering tradeoffs along the way
• You will ensure that Anduril products seamlessly work together to achieve a variety of critical outcomes
• This will require 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
• To date, capability groups within Air Defense have been largely left to their own devices when it comes to simulation capabilities
• This means existing solutions have been team-specific, non-standard, and do not capture the full impact across our Family of Systems
• Further, these systems do not have a common architecture or path to converge and provide insights to higher-level mission impacts across groups of assets
• This convergence is also required for many initiatives - for example, to achieve representative analysis of system-level performance within Classified computing environments, a major ask from multiple partner entities
• Now, we are in search of a Software Engineer that can help lay out and execute a vision for shared simulation and SITL development roadmap across the capability groups within our broad Family of Systems
• Own the software solutions that are deployed to customers
• Write code to improve products and scale the mission capability to more customers
• Collaborate across multiple teams to plan, build, and test complex functionality
• Create and analyze metrics that are leveraged for debugging and monitoring
• Triage issues, root cause failures, and coordinate next-steps
• Partner with end-users to turn needs into features while balancing user experience with engineering constraints
• Travel up to 30% of time to build, test, and deploy capabilities in the real world