Senior Robotics Software Engineer

Anduril Industries

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Work type
On-site
Location
Costa Mesa, CA
Salary
$220,000–$292,000 / yr
Posted
4 days ago
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About Anduril Industries

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 1747 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Senior Robotics Software Engineer

As a Senior Robotics Software Engineer on the Maneuver Dominance team, you will develop mission autonomy systems for Omen, an autonomous air vehicle. You will be responsible for solving complex problems in networking, autonomy, systems integration, robotics, and perception while making pragmatic engineering tradeoffs to ensure products work seamlessly together. Your daily work involves writing code to scale capabilities, collaborating across teams to build and test functionality, creating metrics for debugging, and triaging failures. The role requires expertise in C++ or Rust, experience with large-scale data processing, and knowledge of motion planning, behavior trees, and distributed communication networks. You will solve technical challenges related to multi-agent autonomous systems and flight systems for a tail-sitter aircraft designed for runway-independent operations across defense and civilian domains.

What you'll do

  • Own the mission autonomy systems and services deployed to customers.
  • Write code to improve products and scale mission capabilities for more users.
  • Create and analyze metrics for debugging and monitoring system performance.
  • Triage issues, root cause failures, and coordinate necessary next steps.
  • Translate end-user needs into functional features while balancing engineering constraints.
  • Travel up to 25% of the time to build, test, and deploy capabilities in real-world environments.

What we're looking for

  • Strong engineering background in fields such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics.
  • 8+ years of professional industry experience working with C++ or Rust programming languages.
  • Experience building software solutions involving significant amounts of data processing and analysis.
  • Ability to quickly understand and navigate complex systems and established code bases.
  • Must have an active U.S. Secret security clearance.
  • Willingness to travel up to 25% for testing and demonstrations.
  • Strong background in Physics, Mathematics, or Motion Planning for modeling and simulation (preferred).
  • Experience with multi-agent autonomous systems, flight systems, or distributed communication networks (preferred).

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