Staff Software Engineer

Anduril • Irvine, CA

4d

About The Position

The Air Defense team develops and supports a family of networked sensors and effectors that help warfighters detect, track, identify, deter, and defeat unmanned aerial system threats. The team works across product, engineering, sales, logistics, operations, and mission success to develop, test, deploy, and sustain these systems in challenging operational environments worldwide.

As a Software Engineering Lead on the Air Defense Engineering Team, you will own operational efforts to help the Air Defense Software Team operate effectively and efficiently. You will partner with engineering leads to optimize and scale team output and support execution against business goals. The role includes leading software delivery and release processes, coordinating cross-team initiatives, supporting engineering leaders, tracking program deliverables, and helping align team roadmaps and staffing.

Requirements

• Strong engineering background, preferably as a Software Engineer and/or Lead/Manager.
• Experience with multiple programming languages, such as C++, Rust, Python, and Golang.
• Solid technical aptitude and ability to understand technical designs, the software development lifecycle, challenges, and risks, and work effectively with engineering teams.
• Extensive experience with Agile methods and tools such as Jira and Confluence.
• Ability to own, track, and drive sprint execution and Jira boards.
• Strong process and organizational skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to describe and assess a problem and work through a solution.
• Experience running projects and processes with little oversight and ability to unblock oneself.
• Highly developed analytical and communication skills.
• High grit, proactive, and enthusiastic.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. security clearance.
• Able to travel up to 30–50% of the time.

Nice To Haves

• Experience building programs for software deliverables from the ground up.
• Ability to work in organizations with minimal structure and direction.
• Experience rolling out potentially disruptive organizational process changes.
• Experience creating communication plans for various stakeholder levels.
• Strong technical, analytical, and quantitative skills, including using data and metrics to support assumptions and recommendations and drive decisions.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or an Engineering discipline.

Responsibilities

• Lead software sprints and drive release readiness while maintaining code quality across multiple sprint teams.
• Manage development and deployment of major, minor, and patch releases for multiple products and programs.
• Mentor a small team of engineers, fostering strong development processes and practices and helping develop future leaders.
• Collaborate with internal team members and external partners to build technologies and processes that enable users to safely and rapidly develop and deploy autonomous systems.
• Manage, unblock, and accelerate cross-team software projects and cross-functional initiatives.
• Instill an efficient project-management mindset and workflow across teams.
• Partner with engineering leaders to drive program execution and team velocity across software teams and departments.
• Act as a proxy in program and organizational matters to help engineering leads scale.
• Drive, track, and communicate the progress of technical deliverables for key team or group programs.
• Define effective processes for communicating program status across the group.
• Help define the Air Defense Software team roadmap and coordinate with partner engineering teams to align the technical roadmap, programs, and staffing.
• Identify and resolve systemic execution issues that require broader initiatives.
• Identify, resolve, and escalate key cross-team dependencies.
• Understand technical implementation at the architectural level and propose alternatives when needed; ask questions to clarify priorities.

Benefits

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

What This Job Offers

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