Senior Robotics Software Engineer, Sentry Tower

Anduril • Irvine, CA

2d • Onsite

About The Position

The Sentry Tower Software team develops robotic systems that provide force protection capabilities, monitoring the perimeter of secure areas, land or sea, for approaching people, vehicles, and vessels. Our products leverage advanced sensor fusion and autonomy to seamlessly render activity in the environment to Lattice’s common operating picture. As a Software Engineer on the Sentry Tower Product Team you will be responsible for building and maintaining software for current and next generation Sentry Tower systems. This will include interacting with stakeholders like Anduril’s business lines of Air Defense and Counter Intrusion all the way from internal engineering customers to the people in the field. Prioritizing what is important to create an excellent experience for them in the long run.

Requirements

• Proficiency navigating the robotics system stack (integrating sensors, compute, and actuation), or deep expertise in low-level software and hardware interfacing.
• 4+ years working with Rust or C++.
• Solid grasp of networking principles, including CAN and Ethernet protocols, along with expertise in hardware interfacing, diagnostic tools (e.g., Wireshark, CANoe), and cyber security principles as they pertain to secure and reliable sensor data transmission.
• Demonstrated experience in designing and building software solutions for high-volume data processing and sophisticated sensor data analysis.
• Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in areas/fields such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics.
• Experience with modern build systems (e.g., Nix, CMake) and setting up CI/CD pipelines.
• US person status required, with eligibility to obtain and maintain a US security clearance.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Python or Go for tooling (and Rust, if your primary background is C++).
• Controls experience, including trajectory planning, inverse kinematics (for robotic arms), sensor fusion, etc.
• A solid understanding of real-time systems and embedded software development.
• Familiarity with building custom data logging, observability pipelines, or edge-compute deployment strategies.

Responsibilities

• Own feature development and roll out for our products - recent examples include: building out our SITL/HITL, implementing security requirements, integrating sensors like cameras, GPS, and ADSB, creating APIs for actuating robotic arm movements, refining our build systems and more.
• Design, evaluate, and implement software that supports operation by both human and autonomous planning agents.
• Be responsible for service ownership, ensuring functionality, reliability, and alignment with customer objectives. This includes effective communication and a result oriented mindset.
• Submit well-documented, tested pull requests addressing the team’s critical issues.
• The ability to negotiate system design trade-offs in a technical, humble and open-minded manner is key.
• Architecture and scaling our custom real-time communication and middle-ware systems.

Benefits

• Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package.
• Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including: Benefits At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed