Software Engineer (Frontend), Space

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 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 war-fighting domain.ABOUT THE JOBAs a Frontend Software Engineer on Space Ground Software, you will own the design, implementation, and deployment of mission-critical frontend software solutions that support customer missions for space operations, mission management, and autonomy. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will develop modular capabilities to support the DoD and IC customers across the space domain. This will involve building UX workflows on top of the Anduril Lattice software platform to include space domain specific operator displays, control interfaces, and mission planning. The Anduril orbital software capability development will involve 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.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.WHAT YOU'LL DOOwn the software solutions that are deployed to customersOwn the development of frontend software capabilities to enable delivery of end to end mission systemsIntegrate with legacy systems to unlock 21st-century capabilitiesWrite code to improve products and scale the mission capability to different users more customersCollaborate across multiple teams to plan, build, and test complex functionalityTriage issues, root cause failures, and coordinate next-stepsPartner with end-users to turn needs into features while balancing user experience with engineering constraintsWork in a mini-startup environment to create elegant SaaS or on-premise solutions that are better than what current market solutions can offer.Level up our team’s applications through quality code contribution.Have an area of deep expertise in a portion of the full stack (i.e. backend, frontend, integration).Work with a high-functioning team of developers with an emphasis on finishing business-critical projectsREQUIRED QUALIFICATIONSStrong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in areas/fields such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or PhysicsAbility to quickly understand and navigate complex systems and detailed requirementsCapable of solving complex technical problems with little oversightClear communication and organizational skills including documentation and training material4+ years of professional programming experience with relevant frontend Javascript frameworksA desire to work on critical software that has a real-world impactExperience working with large enterprise applications and platforms with high availability requirementsExperience with real-time user interfaces that use reactive programming libraries - RxJS or similarProficiency with web-based technologies such as Javascript, React, TypescriptAbility to empathize with end-users, to turn needs into features, and to balance user experience with engineering constraintsEligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearancePREFERRED QUALIFICATIONSWe encourage people from all backgrounds to apply but our tech stack uses AWS, Typescript, and React so familiarity with all of these tools and languages would be usefulExperience in hyper growth startup-like environments, with demonstrated successes in scaling and maturing software development processes, team culture and methods, and ability to balance short-term and long-term trade offsExperience with spacecraft software systems and spacecraft operationsExperience with satellite mission autonomy to include fault isolation and recovery systemsExperience with deployment tooling such as KubernetesA desire to work on critical software in the space domainExperience with existing space software standards and modular software services developmentUS Salary Range$129,000—$171,000 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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