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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.
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The Senior Software Engineering Manager, Simulation Platforms joins the Air Dominance & Strike team to lead the development of high-fidelity simulation platforms for evaluating aerospace and mission systems in contested environments. You will grow and mentor an engineering team to modernize legacy, monolithic simulation frameworks into modular architectures featuring stable APIs, robust versioning, and automated testing. Daily responsibilities include defining technical directions, managing project execution, and partnering with business development to write technical proposals for government contracts. You must possess expertise in complex systems architecture, API design, and software development within secure, air-gapped environments. The role involves translating intelligence assessments into modeled software environments to represent sophisticated adversary behaviors, providing rapid iteration cycles for testing and training next-generation defense platforms and robotic systems like Fury and Barracuda.
What does a Software Engineering Manager earn in California?
Median $281300 from 43 postings across 15 companies.
C++20
Python
gRPC
DIS
Entity-Component-System
Linux
pybind11
Nix
C ABI
Numerical Simulation
Physics Modeling
Distributed Simulation
Systems Programming