Mission Software Engineer, Mission Systems
Anduril Industries
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This role pays more than 65% of similar roles. Most pay $145,000–$214,000 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $193k versus about $180k for comparable roles.
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Anduril Industries is a defense technology company that builds advanced hardware and software systems for national security, including autonomous drones, surveillance systems, and the Lattice AI command platform.
Anduril Industries currently has 943 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $166,000–$220,000 across 911 roles with salary data.
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The Mission Software Engineer, Mission Systems, Networking joins the Air Dominance & Strike Mission Systems Software team to build distributed infrastructure connecting autonomous robotics systems to command and control. You will develop the messaging, orchestration, and networking backbone required to coordinate multi-vehicle operations and integrate services with Lattice OS. Daily tasks involve owning resilient, distributed mission software from concept simulation to live operations. You will utilize C++, Rust, Linux, systemd, Kubernetes, Git, and GitHub while managing TCP/UDP, socket programming, MTU, multicast, TLS/mTLS, NTP, and PTP. Required skills include diagnosing complex networking failures using tcpdump and Wireshark, testing unicast and multicast data flows, and managing FRR. This role solves the technical challenge of enabling coordinated fleet management and mission payload tasking in complex environments.
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