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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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As the Senior Software Engineering Manager, Simulation Platforms, you will join the Air Dominance & Strike team to lead the development of high-fidelity simulation platforms used to evaluate advanced aerospace and mission systems in contested environments. You will manage, mentor, and scale an engineering team while partnering with the Chief Engineer to modernize legacy, monolithic simulation frameworks into modular architectures featuring stable APIs, robust versioning, and automated testing. Your daily work involves overseeing software, systems engineering, real-time simulation, and API design to create digital models that represent sophisticated adversary behaviors. You will also collaborate with business development teams to write technical proposals and manage stakeholder relationships within government-owned environments. Required expertise includes experience in complex systems architecture, secure or air-gapped deployments, and translating intelligence assessments into modeled software environments for defense applications.
What does a Software Engineering Manager earn in California?
Median $281300 from 35 postings across 13 companies.
C++20
Python
gRPC
Nix
Entity-Component-System
Linux
pybind11
DIS Protocol
Systems Programming
Linear Algebra
Physics Modeling
Scientific Computing
C ABI
Distributed Simulation