Software Engineer, Agent Platform

Anduril Industries

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On-site
Location
Washington, District of ColumbiaCosta Mesa, California
Salary
$220,000–$292,000 / yr
Posted
123 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 901 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Software Engineer, Agent Platform

JOB TITLE: Software Engineer, Agent Platform The Software Engineer, Agent Platform joins the Frontier AI team to own and evolve the internal LLM agent framework. This role focuses on building a production-quality platform that enables various teams to develop, evaluate, and deploy reliable LLM agents within mission-critical environments. You will design core abstractions, runtime architecture, and developer experience while supporting model post-training workflows like supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning. Key responsibilities include designing tooling for structured tool calling, memory retrieval, planning loops, and agent graphs. You will utilize skills in backend engineering, distributed systems, and Kubernetes to create evaluation suites for trajectory quality and tool-call correctness. The work addresses the technical challenge of integrating generative AI into a command and control platform to improve autonomy and reduce cognitive burden.

What does a Software Engineer earn in District Of Columbia?

Median $215000 from 45 postings across 11 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Own and evolve the internal LLM agent framework, including core abstractions, runtime architecture, and reliability.
  • Provide framework capabilities, implementation guidance, and architectural reviews to support multiple business lines.
  • Integrate model post-training workflows such as supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning with machine learning teams.
  • Design tooling for structured tool calling, memory retrieval, planning loops, and human-in-the-loop workflows.
  • Define comprehensive evaluation suites to measure task success, trajectory quality, and deployment readiness.
  • Research emerging agent architecture and evaluation trends to make pragmatic internal adoption decisions.
  • Translate ambiguous product needs from partner teams into reusable platform capabilities.

What we're looking for

  • Strong backend engineering experience building production-quality platforms, frameworks, APIs, or infrastructure used by other engineers.
  • Deep expertise in LLM agent framework design, including orchestration patterns like linear, graph-based, multi-agent, and tool-heavy agents.
  • Experience designing agent evaluation paradigms, including trajectory evaluations, LLM-as-judge workflows, and adversarial scenario testing.
  • Familiarity with model post-training workflows such as SFT, preference tuning, reinforcement learning, and environment-based agent training.
  • Strong judgment regarding reliability, observability, debugging, and safety for LLM applications in high-stakes settings.
  • Ability to work with partner teams to turn ambiguous product needs into reusable platform capabilities.
  • Experience with agent frameworks like Langchain Deepagents or Claude SDK (preferred).
  • Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, distributed systems, workflow orchestration, or ML infrastructure (preferred).

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