Senior Software Engineer, Strategic Defense (Active Clearance)

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Strategic Defense team at Anduril protects the United States and its allies from ballistic hypersonic and air-breathing threats. Those threats now arrive in seconds maneuver mid-flight and come in volleys designed to overwhelm the legacy systems meant to stop them so were building a software-defined command and control layer that can see decide and act faster than any human operator could alone. Our team spans autonomy tracking simulation and wargaming hardware systems engineering and test and evaluation to build an accredited fire control system fielded rapidly and at scale. We are at the forefront of incubating and maturing AI-native offerings for the integrated air and missile defense domain.

ABOUT THE JOB

This application is for established coders with 8 years of experience who will breeze through live coding interviews and it does require active clearance.

As a Software Engineer in Strategic Defense you will write code side-by-side with elite peers to solve a wide variety of problems involving networking autonomy systems integration robotics and more. Youll make pragmatic engineering tradeoffs along the way to ensure Anduril products achieve a variety of desired outcomes in ambiguous situations where more is on the line than money or corporate gains. By working hand-in-hand with powerhouse teams in AI Edge Hardware Space Solutions Networking and Test Engineering you will craft cutting-edge end-to-end systems that redefine mission success for major strategic capabilities.

WHAT YOULL DO

• Own software solutions that are deployed to customers at the edge of innovation and necessity
• Write code to improve robust C2 products and scale mission capabilities to broaden our impact
• Collaborate across multiple engineering teams to plan build and test functionality of complex systems
• Partner with end-users to turn needs into features quickly while balancing user experience and engineering constraints
• Travel 10 - 30% with the team to build test and deploy capabilities in the real world where theyre needed most

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance (or higher)
• 8-12 years writing production software in languages like C Rust Go or Python that real users or systems depend on
• Youve owned a feature or service end-to-end including design implementation deployment and dealing with it when it breaks
• Youve debugged problems in code you didnt write and systems you didnt design
• Youre comfortable making engineering decisions with incomplete requirements and revisiting them when reality disagrees
• You can explain technical tradeoffs to people who arent software engineers (operators hardware engineers customers)

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• A desire to work on critical software that has a real-world impact
• Exposure to robotics distributed systems networking or real-time systems
• Experience with mid and upper tier Air Defense Command and Control (C2) programs
• Have worked where software touches physical hardware
• Experience building software solutions involving significant amounts of data processing and analysis
• Degree in a relevant field like Computer Science Math or Physics
• Willing to travel up to 20% to Asia Pacific

US Salary Range

$191000 - $292000 USD

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience education and/or training critical skills and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Andurils total compensation package. Additionally Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees including:

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Required Experience:

Senior IC