Forward Deployed Software Engineer, Connected Warfare (Active Clearance)

Anduril•Colorado Springs, CO

About The Position

The Connected Warfare division’s Mission Command team builds, deploys, integrates, extends, and scales Anduril software and hardware to deliver mission-critical capabilities. Mission Software Engineers work closely with customers and end-users to solve operational challenges and deliver capabilities such as Lattice Mesh, Joint All Domain Command & Control, and Anduril’s Menace Family-of-Systems. In this role, you will build software for a tactical-edge platform, addressing problems across networking, autonomy, systems integration, robotics, and distributed data layers. You will help ensure Anduril products work together and with third-party systems, supporting resilient decision-making in contested and disconnected environments. The team balances long-term system design with pragmatic tradeoffs to meet immediate customer needs. The role includes owning software solutions deployed to customers, working end-to-end with users and cross-functional teams, and supporting system health and production issue resolution. Travel is expected 10%–30% of the time to meet customers, understand operating conditions, and build, test, and deploy capabilities in the field.

Requirements

Currently possess and be able to maintain an active U.S. Secret Clearance.
Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Networking, Mathematics, or Physics.
At least 3–10+ years working with a variety of programming languages, such as Go, Python, Java, C++, or Rust.
Experience building software solutions involving significant amounts of data processing and analysis.
Ability to quickly understand and navigate complex systems and established code bases.
Desire to work on critical software with real-world impact.

Nice To Haves

Experience working with and designing distributed systems.
Proven ability to deliver high-quality results at pace, ideally within a startup or high-growth environment.
Deep networking experience, especially with distributed systems operating in non-standard networking conditions.
Familiarity with industry-standard cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure, and software infrastructure fundamentals such as networking, security, and distributed systems.
Deep, demonstrated understanding of how computers and networks work, from a single desktop to a multi-cluster cloud node.
Professional software development lifecycle experience using tools such as version control and CI/CD systems.
Familiarity with industry-standard monitoring, logging, and data management tools and best practices.

Responsibilities

Own software solutions spanning core mesh platforms, data interfaces, and release management, deployed directly to customers to scale mission capabilities.
Deliver well-architected systems using modern software engineering practices, including code and design reviews, while prioritizing scalability, reliability, testability, portability, and maintainability.
Drive software solutions end-to-end, partnering with end-users to translate complex needs into features while balancing user experience with engineering constraints.
Collaborate across multiple teams to plan, build, and test complex, cross-functional functionality.
Create and analyze monitoring metrics, triage production issues, identify root causes, and coordinate next steps to maintain system health and resolve issues rapidly.
Travel 10%–30% of the time to meet customers, collaborate with teammates, understand real-world operating conditions, and build, test, and deploy capabilities in the field.

Benefits

Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers and are considered part of total compensation.
Top-tier benefits for full-time employees, described as a comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees.

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