Staff Software Engineer, AI

Anduril • Costa Mesa, CA

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About The Position

The Internal AI team builds Anduril’s AI infrastructure and tooling used by employees across the company. Its work centers on autonomous coding agents and agentic automation systems, including the underlying platform, agent frameworks, and model-serving components. The team partners with business lines across Anduril to help apply AI infrastructure to workflow automation.

The Staff Software Engineer will help build out Anduril’s internal AI ecosystem, including infrastructure and tooling for autonomous coding and agentic automation. The role calls for curiosity, strong communication, a product mindset, the ability to take ideas through implementation, and ownership of the resulting work. The engineer will propose, prototype, build, and deploy agentic systems; work with business lines to identify and address workflow needs; maintain supporting data pipelines, feature workflows, and model-serving components; and stay current on AI technologies and their practical applications.

Requirements

• Deep interest in 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.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

Nice To Haves

• Practical professional experience enabling agents, skills, MCP, and other emerging AI technologies.
• Experience with process automation, event-driven architecture, and modular software design with a “unix daemon” mindset.
• Experience in hyper-growth, 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 emerging techniques.
• Work cross-functionally with business lines across Anduril to scope solutions for pain points and manual workflows.
• Build and maintain data pipelines, feature workflows, and model-serving components supporting applied AI use cases.
• Stay informed about current AI technologies and trends and share knowledge of their practical applications.

Benefits

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

What This Job Offers

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