Staff Software Engineer, AI
Anduril Industries
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This role pays more than 91% of similar roles. Most pay $149,500–$181,975 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $222k versus about $166k 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 916 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $166,000–$220,000 across 872 roles with salary data.
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The Senior Software Engineer, AI joins the Internal AI team to build infrastructure and tooling for autonomous coding and agentic automation. This role involves proposing, prototyping, and deploying agentic systems to solve real-world problems while building data pipelines, feature workflows, and model-serving components. The engineer will work cross-functionally to scope solutions that address manual workflows and pain points across different business lines. Key requirements include experience taking AI systems into production or working with traditional ML, along with skills in optimizing AI coding assistants. The position requires a product mindset to convert workflow requirements into technical automation. The work focuses on developing underlying platforms, agent frameworks, and model-serving components to enable internal employees to leverage AI infrastructure for automated workflows and reasoning.
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