Senior Software Engineer, AI

Anduril Industries

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Work type
On-site
Location
Costa Mesa, CA
Salary
$191,000–$254,000 / yr
Posted
3 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 916 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $166,000–$220,000 across 872 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer, AI

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.

What does a Software Engineer earn in California?

Median $214500 from 1116 postings across 75 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Propose, prototype, build, and deploy agentic systems to solve real-world problems using state-of-the-art techniques.
  • Build and maintain data pipelines, feature workflows, and model-serving components for applied AI use cases.
  • Scope new solutions by working cross-functionally with different business lines to address manual workflows.
  • Develop and maintain the underlying platform, agent frameworks, and model-serving components for internal AI infrastructure.
  • Convert gathered workflow requirements from stakeholders into technical automation solutions.
  • Learn and evangelize current AI technologies and their practical applications to the rest of the company.

What we're looking for

  • Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical degree.
  • 1-2 years of experience taking AI systems into production or 2-4 years of experience with traditional ML.
  • Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.
  • Experience using and optimizing AI coding assistants in a collaborative production environment.
  • Strong stakeholder and cross-functional communication skills to gather requirements and convert them into technical automation.
  • Creative problem-solving skills with the ability to simplify workflows into modular, reusable automation components.
  • Practical experience enabling agents, skills, MCP, and other emerging AI technologies in a professional environment (preferred).
  • Experience with process automation, event-driven architecture, and a modular software mindset (preferred).

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