Senior Software Engineer, Anduril Industries

Anvil

$168-252k

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

Python

Linux

C++

Rust

MatLab

Senior and Expert level

Los Angeles

Office located in Costa Mesa, CA

Hardware and software for national security

Open for applications

Hardware and software for national security

1001+ employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceSecurityEnterpriseDronesAerospace

Open for applications

$168-252k

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

Python

Linux

C++

Rust

MatLab

Senior and Expert level

Los Angeles

Office located in Costa Mesa, CA

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

5+ years of C++ or Rust experience in a Linux development environment
Strong engineering background from industry or academia, ideally in areas/fields such as Robotics, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mechatronics, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics
Demonstrate experience leading projects or teams with the ability to inspire, mentor, and grow other engineers
Proven understanding of data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and code optimization
Experience troubleshooting and analyzing remotely deployed software systems
Experience with data visualization and analysis in Python or Matlab
Must be eligible to obtain and hold a US DoD Security Clearance

Desirable

Experience in one or more of the following robotics disciplines: motion planning, perception, localization, mapping, controls, and related system performance metrics
Experience programming for embedded and physical devices
Experience with Linux tools for performance analysis and debugging problems
Understanding of systems software (kernel, device drivers, system calls) and optimizing for limited resources
Experience with sensor characterization and analysis

What the job involves

As a Robotics Software Engineer on our TRS team, you'll be at the forefront of cutting-edge autonomous systems development
We are looking for a Software Engineer to help build and enhance Anvil, our autonomous kinetic interceptor for precise and low-collateral defeat of group 1 and 2 aerial threats
As an engineer on the Anvil team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping Anduril’s cutting edge UAS capabilities
Write robotics software to enhance and add new capabilities to the Anvil platform
Own feature development and rollout for our products, from design inception to customer deployments
Demonstrate experience leading projects or teams with the ability to inspire, mentor, and grow other engineers
Work closely with our hardware and manufacturing teams during product development, providing quick feedback that contributes to the final hardware design
Integrate with other air defense and platform teams within the Anduril Lattice ecosystem

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 $1 billion Series G funding round in 2025 led by the Founders Fund, doubling its valuation to $30 billion. This oversubscribed funding round came after the company doubled its revenue in 2024, when it won a contract with the US military to build its soldiers' VY/AR headsets for combat, a contract the company beat Microsoft to.

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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

68% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.9)

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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