Software Engineer, AI

Anduril • Costa Mesa, CA

2d

About The Position

The Internal AI team builds Anduril’s AI infrastructure and tooling used across the company. Its work includes autonomous coding agents, agentic automation systems, agent frameworks, platform infrastructure, and model-serving components. The team also partners with business teams to apply AI infrastructure to workflow automation.

Anduril is seeking a motivated Senior Software Engineer to help build its internal AI ecosystem. The role involves developing infrastructure and tools for autonomous coding and agentic automation. Success requires curiosity, strong communication, a product mindset, the ability to take ideas through implementation, and ownership of one’s work.

Requirements

• Deep interest and enthusiasm for emerging AI technologies and their practical implementation.
• Creative problem-solving skills and the ability to simplify workflows into modular, reusable automation components.
• 1–2 years of experience taking AI systems into production, or 2–4 years of experience with traditional machine learning.
• A degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Experience using and optimizing AI coding assistants in a collaborative production environment.
• Strong stakeholder and cross-functional communication skills, including gathering workflow requirements and translating them into technical automation.
• Eligibility to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

Nice To Haves

• Practical experience enabling agents, skills, MCP, and other emerging AI technologies in a professional environment.
• Experience with process automation, event-driven architecture, and a modular or “unix daemon” mindset in software.
• Experience in hypergrowth, startup-like environments, with demonstrated success scaling and maturing software development processes.
• Familiarity with cloud services.

Responsibilities

• Propose, prototype, build, and deploy agentic systems that solve real-world problems using state-of-the-art techniques.
• Work cross-functionally with business lines to scope solutions for pain points and manual workflows.
• Build and maintain data pipelines, feature workflows, and model-serving components that support applied AI use cases.
• Stay informed about current AI technologies and trends and share knowledge about their practical applications.

Benefits

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior