Senior Robotics Engineer, Anduril Industries
Maritime
$168-252k
Hardware and software for national security
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Hardware and software for national security
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$168-252k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To defend against America's national security challenges to create a safer future for the nation.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of professional C++ or Rust programming experience in a Linux development environment
- Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in areas/fields such as Robotics, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mechatronics, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics
- Experience in one or more of the following: sensor integration, tracking and estimation, motion planning, perception, localization, mapping, guidance, navigation and controls, and related system performance metrics
- Proven understanding of data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and code optimization
- Experience troubleshooting and analyzing remotely deployed software systems
- Hands-on experience developing software for embedded and physical devices
- Solid understanding of robotics systems, common interfaces and protocols (gRPC, TCP/IP, RS485, RS232)
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across technical teams
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance
Desirable
- Experience with SLAM
- Experience working on autonomous underwater vehicles
- Familiarity with vehicle management systems such as ArduPilot or PX4
- MS in Robotics, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mechatronics, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics
What the job involves
- 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 Senior Software Engineer with deep robotics experience to architect and deliver critical systems and sub-systems
- In this role, you will work across the entire robotics software stack — from perception and motion planning to state estimation, mapping, and autonomy
- You’ll own end to end integration and validation, ensuring that all components work seamlessly together to power our undersea products, including Dive-LD and Copperhead
- Drive integration across the robotics stack, bringing together perception, motion planning, state estimation, and autonomy
- Develop and integrate sensors for perception, enabling advanced mapping and SLAM capabilities
- Contribute to perception, motion planning, state estimation, and autonomy features
- Write production-quality code, primarily in Rust and C++
- Participate in the full software development lifecycle, from concept and design through testing and deployment
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues in deployed systems, ensuring optimal performance in the field
- Navigate dynamic, ambiguous environments
- Travel up to 15% 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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Insights
68% employee growth in 12 months
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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