Senior Software Engineer, Discovery

Anduril Industries • Washington, DC

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About The Position

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company focused on transforming military capabilities with advanced technology. The Discovery team incubates and matures software-defined, AI-native offerings for challenges in hardware, software, space, and cyber domains, architecting mission autonomy and mesh networking. As a Software Engineer in Discovery, you will solve diverse problems in networking, autonomy, systems integration, and robotics, making pragmatic engineering tradeoffs to ensure Anduril products work together seamlessly. You will receive mentorship and leadership opportunities, and be expected to set technical direction. A "Whatever It Takes" mindset is crucial, emphasizing expedient, scalable, and pragmatic execution with a focus on mission success, sound engineering decisions, and timely, high-quality delivery. You will build software and work directly with customers for deployment.

Requirements

• Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in areas/fields such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics
• 7+ years working with a variety of programming languages such as Java, Python, C++, Rust, Go, JavaScript, etc.
• 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
• Experience making impactful technical architectural decisions, tradeoffs and engaging in engineering discussion with peers
• Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance

Nice To Haves

• Developing and testing multi-agent autonomous systems and deploying in real-world environments
• Feature and algorithm development with an understanding of behavior trees
• Distributed communication networks and message standards
• Knowledge of military systems and operational tactics
• Experience mentoring junior engineers
• Experience and examples of architecting complex systems

Responsibilities

• Develop tools and capabilities that extend Anduril's Lattice OS to solve unique customer problems in the command and control of cyber assets, the planning and execution of offensive cyber missions, networking, and remote asset management in far-edge environments.
• Collaborate closely with customers, product designers, and other engineering teams to shape and build new software products and applications, optimizing for maximum value to the end user.
• Build, test, deploy, and demonstrate mission-critical code in a tight feedback loop with end users.
• Travel up to 25% of the time to participate in customer events and deploy capabilities in real-world scenarios.
• Contribute to the development of existing software services across Anduril, aiming to develop reusable components that contribute to success across multiple Anduril product lines.

Benefits

• Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package.
• Top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including 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