Principal Software Engineer, Anduril Industries
Vehicle Management System
$196-294k
Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers
Office located in Quincy, MA
Hardware and software for national security
Open for applications
Hardware and software for national security
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$196-294k
Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers
Office located in Quincy, MA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To defend against America's national security challenges to create a safer future for the nation.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Engineering, a relevant field, or equivalent experience
- Experienced and proficient at writing C
- Experience with an RTOS
- Familiarity with communications busses and protocols (e.g. CAN, CANFD, UART/RS232/RS422/RS485, SPI, QSPI, I2C, Ethernet, ARINC-825, ARINC-429, MIL-STD-1553, etc)
- Systems programming skills including algorithms, data structures, concurrency and optimization
- Capacity to learn and grow individually, while mentoring junior team members effectively, contributing to team cohesion and capacity
- Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. TS clearance
Desirable
- Experience in design and development of embedded applications in autonomous vehicle software systems
- Experience with development of high assurance safety critical software applications
- Experience in developing interfaces to sensors and actuators
- Experience troubleshooting and analyzing remotely deployed software systems
- Experience working with and testing electrical and mechanical systems
- Experience with DO-178, IEC 61508, or similar certifications
- Familiarity with navigation and communications systems
What the job involves
- Anduril is fielding the next generation of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) to tackle the extremely challenging industry demands of seabed exploration
- Anduril has brought to the market a unique, ultra-long-range, full-ocean-depth platform and a completely refreshed maritime vehicle and flexible manufacturing architecture that scales from "large" to "extra-large" vehicle sizes
- Today, Anduril is executing on multi-million-dollar contracts while simultaneously performing Robot-as-a-Service (RaaS) AUV operations
- These platforms, including but not limited to, our Extra Large and Large Displacement Un-crewed Undersea Vehicles (Dive-XL and Dive-LD respectively), require a Principal Software Engineer with deep robotics experience to architect and deliver critical systems and sub-systems
- The Senior Software Engineer strives to leverage their experience with Vehicle Management Systems to rapidly architect, design, deliver, support, and evolve next generation autonomous vehicles through the entire product life-cycle
- Design and implement trusted, safety critical Vehicle Management Systems that balance constraints, restrictions and requirements in a multi-stakeholder environment
- Design and implement scalable vehicle sub-systems including sensor processing, state estimation, contingency management, actuation, payload interfaces, and mission systems interfaces
- Develop real-time embedded software using an RTOS
- Develop device drivers and interfaces to a variety of sensors and actuators
- Create test and simulation fixtures that operate with both software-and hardware-in-the-loop
- Support vehicle manufacturing and deployment
- Travel up to 5% of time to build, test, and deploy capabilities in the real world
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 7 rounds)
Jan 2025
$14.3m
GRANT
Aug 2024
$1.5bn
SERIES F
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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