Staff Software Engineer, Maritime Enabling Technology

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.ABOUT THE TEAMAnduril’s Maritime Division has assembled a diverse team of experts in software, robotics, artificial intelligence, sensor fusion, and data analysis to create software and hardware solutions that radically evolve the capabilities of our customers. We are fielding the next generation of autonomous systems to tackle the extremely challenging industry demands of maritime operations. Anduril has brought to market a unique, ultra-long-range, full-ocean-depth underwater vessel platform and a completely refreshed maritime vehicle and flexible manufacturing architecture that scales from "small" to "extra-large" vehicle sizes. Today, Anduril is executing on billion-dollar contracts while simultaneously performing Robot-as-a-Service (RaaS) AUV operations.We are seeking to sustain our early successes with deep investment in an expanded product portfolio. These products, including Dive-XL, Dive-LD, Copperhead, Seabed Sentry, and other unannounced systems, will deliver a coherent system-of-systems, enabling the end-to-end conduct of a variety of autonomous missions in the maritime domain. If you are passionate about solving problems that have real impact and working on systems that directly contribute to achieving national strategic priorities, we want you to join Anduril’s Maritime Division and help us build the future of defense capability.ABOUT THE JOBStaff Software Engineers lead the delivery of a variety of software integrated in to our products, acting as technical leads, extremely senior individual contributors, and/or as team leads that are also hands-on contributors. This includes autonomy, simulation, data processing, payload integration, and off-board command and control and decision support. We expect Staff Software Engineers to demonstrate unparalleled end-to-end outcome ownership, driving the rapid architecting, design, delivery, support, and evolution of next generation autonomous platforms through their entire product life-cycle.WHAT YOU’LL DOOwn customer success through the design and delivery of a multi-year, multi-stakeholder software roadmap that spans across multiple teams.Leverage internal product and program-specific engineering teams to rapidly deliver capability beyond the scope of current platforms, with a clear path for both architecture and capability evolution over timePartner with external teams, collaborating on interfacing requirements between diverse systems and technologiesDrive architecture selection and design for robotic systems, including hardware selection, compute, storage and network architecture, service orchestration and other software platform concerns that balance constraints, restrictions and requirements in a multi-stakeholder environmentContribute to the design and development of a company wide roadmap for software inputs to autonomous systemsLead teams that develop software that runs on- and off- platform, using a variety of technologiesAct as a subject matter expert for software engineering, representing software equities in a multi-stakeholder environment including engineering, business and sales leadership.Drive the design and implementation of development processes for the initial delivery and subsequent iteration of software, including full lifecycle testingDrive the creation of test and simulation fixtures that operate with both software- and hardware-in-the-loopSupport vehicle manufacturing and deploymentLead teams of multi-disciplinary engineers, including as a mentor for Senior Software Engineers from differing backgroundsTravel to co-locate with end-users and/or other teams up to 20% of the timeREQUIRED QUALIFICATIONSBachelor’s degree in Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Engineering, a relevant field, or equivalent experienceExperience in a leadership position within a high performing technology organizationExtensive professional experience working as a Software Engineer with one or more domains and/or technologies of expertiseSystems and/or application programming skills including algorithms, data structures, concurrency, scaling, testing, infrastructure, software design and system designExperience troubleshooting and analyzing remotely deployed software systemsCapacity to work holistically on software enabled capabilities up and down the software stack and through lifecycle through design, implementation, operation and sustainmentCapacity to act as the technical owner for an entire software system, including stakeholder engagement, requirements definition, roadmap management, team co-ordination, design, implementation, sustainment and evolutionCapacity to learn and grow individually, while mentoring senior team members effectively, building team cohesion and capacityEligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearancePREFERRED QUALIFICATIONSExperience in a senior role for the delivery of a military mission systemExperience writing backend services or embedded software in C++, Rust and/or GoExperience writing frontend applications using Typescript and ReactExperience with the design, implementation and operation of horizontally scaled cloud technologiesExperience with the design, implementation and support of embedded software, particularly in the field of roboticsExperience with modeling and simulationExperience with development of high assurance safety critical softwareExperience within the product delivery lifecycle including manufacturing, system acceptance, deployment, and sustainment.Familiarity with Systems Engineering conceptsDesire to learn and grow in to other roles that require experience as a Staff Software Engineer, such as Principal Software Engineer and/or Senior Manager, Software EngineeringDesire to grow in to a Tech-Lead-Manager role, with responsibility for line management of engineers, in addition to deliveryUS Salary Range$220,000—$292,000 USDThe salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. 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