Senior Robotics Software Engineer, Maneuver Dominance

Anduril Industries • Boston, MA

131d • $220,000 - $292,000

About The Position

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years. The Maneuver Dominance team at Anduril develops operationally relevant, multi-asset autonomy. We are focused on making large groups of autonomous systems work effectively together. We leverage existing Anduril drone platforms like Ghost or Altius, in addition to bringing 3rd party platforms into Anduril’s Lattice ecosystem.

Requirements

• Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in areas/fields such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics.
• 5+ years of professional industry experience working with C++ or Rust programming languages.
• 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.
• Must be willing to travel up to 25% for testing and demonstrations.
• Eligible to obtain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

Nice To Haves

• Strong background with focus in Physics, Mathematics, and/or Motion Planning to inform modeling & simulation (M&S) and physical systems.
• Developing and testing multi-agent autonomous systems and deploying in real-world environments.
• Feature and algorithm development with an understanding of behavior trees.
• Developing software/hardware for flight systems and safety critical functionality.
• Experience with distributed communication networks and message standards.

Responsibilities

• Own the mission autonomy systems and services 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 25% of the time to build, test, and deploy capabilities in the real world.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans at little to no cost to you.
• Anduril covers life and disability insurance for all employees.
• Highly competitive PTO plans with a holiday hiatus in December.
• Coverage for fertility treatments (e.g., IVF, preservation), adoption, and gestational carriers.
• Access free mental health resources 24/7, including therapy and life coaching.
• Annual reimbursement for professional development.
• Company-funded commuter benefits based on your region.
• Relocation Assistance available depending on role eligibility.
• Traditional 401(k), Roth, and after-tax (mega backdoor Roth) options.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees