Software Engineer, Agent Platform

Anduril Industries

Confirmed live 2 days ago High trust

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Work type
On-site
Location
Washington, DC
Salary
$220,000–$292,000 / yr
Posted
77 days ago
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Confirmed live 2 days ago

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $196k
This role $256k
$135k most similar roles pay here $309k

This role pays more than 90% of similar roles. Most pay $157,087–$235,750 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $256k versus about $196k for comparable roles.

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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 1697 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $146,000–$194,000 across 1504 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Software Engineer, Agent Platform

Software Engineer, Agent Platform The Software Engineer, Agent Platform joins the Frontier AI team to own and evolve an internal LLM agent framework within the Lattice software platform. This role sits at the intersection of backend infrastructure, applied AI, agent architecture, model post-training, and evaluation tooling. You will build the core infrastructure, runtime architecture, and developer experience tools that enable teams to develop and deploy reliable LLM agents in mission-critical environments. Key responsibilities include designing tool calling, memory, planning loops, and human-in-the-loop workflows while partnering with machine learning teams on supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning. You will utilize technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker, and distributed systems to solve complex problems in autonomy and command-and-control. The role focuses on creating robust agent evaluation suites to ensure reliability and safety for high-stakes applications involving automated mission planning and battle-space understanding.

What does a Software Engineer earn?

Median $197500 from 2196 postings across 133 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Own the internal LLM agent framework including core abstractions, runtime architecture, and developer experience.
  • Provide technical guidance and architectural reviews to multiple business lines building LLM agents.
  • Integrate model post-training workflows such as supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning into the platform.
  • Design tooling for advanced agent patterns like structured tool calling, memory retrieval, and planning loops.
  • Develop comprehensive evaluation suites to measure task success, tool-call correctness, and deployment readiness.
  • Monitor emerging agent architecture trends to make informed decisions on internal technology adoption.

What we're looking for

  • Experience building production-quality platforms, frameworks, APIs, or infrastructure used by other engineers.
  • Deep expertise in LLM agent framework design and various orchestration patterns.
  • Experience designing agent evaluation paradigms including trajectory evaluations and LLM-as-judge workflows.
  • Familiarity with model post-training workflows such as SFT, preference tuning, and reinforcement learning.
  • Strong judgment regarding reliability, observability, debugging, and safety for high-stakes LLM applications.
  • Ability to translate ambiguous product needs into reusable platform capabilities for partner teams.
  • Preferred experience with agent frameworks like Langchain or Claude SDK.
  • Preferred experience with Kubernetes, Docker, distributed systems, or ML infrastructure.

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