Software Engineer, Agent Platform

Anduril Industries

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Work type
On-site
Location
Washington, DC
Salary
$220,000–$292,000 / yr
Posted
4 days ago

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Above market

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This role $256k
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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 2015 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $146,000–$194,000 across 1799 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Software Engineer, Agent Platform

As a backend software engineer at Anduril’s Frontier AI team, you will own and evolve the internal LLM agent framework, providing core abstractions, runtime architecture, developer experience, integrations, and reliability for mission-critical environments. Your day-to-day responsibilities include supporting multiple business lines by developing new framework capabilities, offering implementation guidance, conducting architectural reviews, and establishing best-practice patterns. You will also design evaluation tooling that supports modern agent patterns and work with machine learning teams to integrate model post-training workflows seamlessly. Required skills include strong backend engineering experience, deep expertise in LLM agent frameworks, and familiarity with defense-related technologies such as autonomy and operational planning systems.

What you'll do

  • Own and evolve the internal LLM agent framework for reliability and developer experience.
  • Design tooling to support modern agent patterns like structured tool calling and memory retrieval.
  • Develop evaluation suites to measure task success, robustness, and deployment readiness of agents.
  • Partner with ML teams to integrate model post-training workflows such as SFT and RL into the platform.
  • Stay updated on emerging trends in agent architecture and evaluation techniques for pragmatic adoption.

What we're looking for

  • Strong backend engineering experience in building production-quality platforms.
  • Deep expertise in designing LLM agent frameworks and understanding orchestration patterns.
  • Experience in creating evaluation paradigms for agent performance and reliability.
  • Familiarity with model post-training workflows including SFT, preference tuning, RL.
  • Ability to work on reliability, observability, debugging, and safety for high-stakes applications.

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