Space Orbital Software Engineer, Emerging Talent

Anduril • Costa Mesa, CA

2d

About The Position

Anduril's Space team is dedicated to expanding our AI-powered capabilities into the final frontier, enhancing Space Domain Awareness, Space Control, and Command and Control for U.S. military and allied partners. We're developing fully integrated hardware and software systems, including Lattice for Space Missions and modular payloads, to address growing threats in space and ensure our Guardians maintain a decisive advantage in this contested warfighting domain. As an Orbital Software Engineer on Space, you will contribute to the architecture and deployment of software solutions that support specific customer missions for on-orbit spacecraft operations and mission management. As a software engineer, you will provide guidance and oversight to a team developing modular capabilities to support the DoD and IC customers across the space domain. This will involve architecture of an orbital software system in coordination with the Anduril Lattice software platform team, algorithms, techniques and coding development to support orbital systems and their interfacing with multi-domain systems. The Anduril orbital software capability development will ensure integration with legacy systems that have been part of our nation’s critical defense for decades as well as new space systems being added to the cache of orbital and ground-based capabilities. The role will also be responsible for the interfaces to multi-modal payload platforms, bus platforms and networking solutions in proliferated satellite constellations. We work with mission partners and operators to deploy reliable and robust capabilities on operationally-relevant fielding timelines to meet complex challenges across the DOD and IC.

Requirements

• Must have recently completed a Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer/Software Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related field.
• Able to start full time in 2026.
• Familiarity with algorithms, data structures, storage systems, cloud infrastructure, front-end frameworks, and other technical tools.
• Proficiency in a variety of programming languages such as C++, Go, Rust, and Python.
• A desire to work on software and applications that have real-world impact.
• A desire to work on critical software in the space domain.
• Have a bias for action. If you see a problem, you want to solve and fix it.
• Be naturally curious about the technologies and tools you use.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

Nice To Haves

• Have a bias for action. If you see a problem, you want to solve and fix it.
• Be naturally curious about the technologies and tools you use.
• Low-ego, high ownership, and mission oriented.
• A desire to work on critical software in the space domain.
• Experience with spacecraft software systems and spacecraft operations.
• Experience with satellite mission autonomy to include fault isolation and recovery systems.
• Experience with deployment tooling like Kubernetes, OpenShift, or Helm.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to software solutions that are deployed to customers.
• Contribute to development of on-orbit software capabilities to enable delivery of end-to-end mission systems.
• Integrate with legacy systems to unlock 21st-century capabilities.
• Write code to improve products and scale the mission capability to different users and customers.
• Collaborate across multiple teams to plan, build, and test complex functionality.
• Create and analyze metrics that are leveraged for debugging and monitoring.
• Triage issues, root cause failures, and coordinate next-steps.
• Partner with end-users to turn needs into features while balancing user experience with engineering constraints.

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. For more information, Explore Our Benefits .

What This Job Offers

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