Software Engineer, Sentry Software (Allied Customer Deployment)

Anduril • Irvine, CA

2d

About The Position

The Software Engineer will support a customer-specific Sentry Tower program, ensuring the towers work reliably in the customer’s environment and remain operational after deployment. This is a hands-on integration and support role, rather than a pure feature-development role, focused on owning the software configuration for the program’s tower variants on Anduril’s declarative NixOS platform. The work includes product configuration, network integration, payload and sensor setup, image builds, and management of the deployment and update path for fielded systems.

The engineer will travel to customer sites for installation, integration, commissioning, and operator support, with travel expected to be approximately 30% and including extended international trips. They will serve as the program’s technical front line, reproducing and root-causing field issues, fixing them directly or coordinating with the teams responsible for the relevant components. The role also involves building tooling, documentation, and runbooks for field personnel and operators, and relaying customer requirements and field realities to engineering teams. Work is reactive and may involve schedule changes and coordination across time zones.

Requirements

• At least 2 years of professional software engineering experience, including work on systems that are deployed and operated.
• Solid Linux systems skills, including command-line use, systemd, log analysis, and diagnosing misbehaving services.
• Practical networking skills, including addressing and subnetting, routing, DNS, VLANs, and packet capture.
• Proficiency in at least one of Python, Rust, C++, or Go, and willingness to work in Rust and C++.
• Willingness and ability to travel approximately 30% of the time, including extended international trips that cannot be rescheduled, and to work effectively at customer sites.
• Strong written communication and follow-through, including the ability to coordinate across time zones and create dependable documentation.
• US person status.
• Active US Secret clearance, or a previously granted Secret clearance eligible for reactivation.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with declarative configuration management or infrastructure-as-code; Nix or NixOS experience is especially relevant, though adjacent tooling is also acceptable.
• Field service, field engineering, or deployment engineering experience, especially with hardware systems.
• Experience integrating radios, satellite terminals, cellular backhaul, or constrained and intermittent network links.
• Prior experience supporting international or defense customers, or working in a program-facing engineering role.
• Additional language skills, or experience working with non-native-English-speaking operators and partner engineering teams.
• Familiarity with robotics, sensor systems, cameras, or radar.

Responsibilities

• Own software configuration for the program’s tower variants in the declarative platform, including product definitions, payload and sensor configuration, and image builds.
• Integrate towers into the customer’s network and communications environment, including addressing, routing, backhaul, and required interfaces.
• Own deployment and software updates for fielded systems, including provisioning, staged rollout, and verifying successful updates.
• Travel to customer sites for installation, integration, commissioning, and operator support, including extended international deployments.
• Triage field issues, reproduce them on a bench or in simulation, determine root causes, and fix them or drive fixes with the responsible team.
• Build tooling, documentation, and runbooks to help field personnel and customer operators resolve routine problems.
• Represent the program within engineering and communicate customer requirements and field realities to teams whose roadmaps need to reflect them.

Benefits

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

What This Job Offers

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