Senior Software Engineer, Mission Perception, Planning, and Operations

Anduril • Costa Mesa, CA

2d

About The Position

Anduril's Maritime Division is building software and systems to strengthen maritime capabilities, including next-generation autonomous underwater vehicles. This role is part of work spanning the division's prototyping operations in Orange County, California, and the Arsenal-2 shipyard initiative in Baltimore County, Maryland.

The Senior Software Engineer will own software that enables maritime autonomous vehicles to understand their environment, determine what to do, and execute missions. Reporting to the Mission Systems Lead, the role spans perception pipelines that process sonar, radar, and EO/IR data; algorithms that decompose mission objectives into executable plans; and runtime execution software that manages mission state and handles contingencies when an operator is unreachable. The engineer will use technical expertise and leadership to set objectives, build cross-functional teams, and drive work to completion, ensuring appropriate design, analysis, and testing for complex multidisciplinary projects.

Requirements

• At least 7 years of experience in autonomous systems software, robotics, perception, or real-time systems.
• Experience building software for field-deployed autonomous systems.
• Depth in at least one of perception, mission planning, or runtime mission execution, with working knowledge of the others.
• Proficiency in real-time software development with stringent timing requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to handle complex state management in production systems.
• Ability to translate operational mission requirements into software requirements.
• Ability to characterize system performance and drive measurable improvements.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret security clearance.
• Ability to receive, process, and disposition encrypted data.

Nice To Haves

• Maritime or underwater autonomy experience.
• Sonar or radar signal processing background.
• Experience with behavior frameworks for autonomous systems.
• ROS or equivalent robotics middleware background.
• Experience in planning or scheduling algorithm development for autonomous systems.
• Military C2 software background.
• Defense applications background.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement sensor processing pipelines for sonar, radar, and EO/IR.
• Build object detection and classification algorithms for maritime environments.
• Develop multi-target tracking systems for real-time situational awareness.
• Integrate platform position and attitude into the context of mission requirements.
• Design and implement mission objective decomposition algorithms.
• Build resource allocation and constraint satisfaction systems for mission planning.
• Develop operator-facing planning interfaces for autonomous maritime missions.
• Design and implement behavior execution software for autonomous maritime missions.
• Build real-time decision-making systems for mission execution.
• Develop contingency handling and failure response logic.
• Manage mission state across complex, multi-phase autonomous operations.
• Integrate mission systems with platform control, perception, and vehicle systems.
• Characterize and improve performance across perception, planning, and execution against operational requirements.
• Support testing and field deployment of mission capabilities.

Benefits

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

What This Job Offers

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