Staff Software Engineer, Discovery
Anduril Industries
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This role pays more than 51% of similar roles. Most pay $142,400–$222,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $193k versus about $182k for comparable roles.
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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 1821 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $146,000–$194,000 across 1607 roles with salary data.
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Software Engineer, Discovery joins the Lattice for Cyber team to build core capabilities, experiences, and primitives for offensive cyber programs. This role involves developing highly-available services, data models, and APIs that power command and control frameworks, autonomous behavior trees, SIGINT analysis tools, and data exfiltration pipelines. The engineer will integrate third-party cyber tools via custom SDKs and design distributed systems capable of operating over degraded or contested networks. Key technical requirements include proficiency in C, C++, Python, Go, Rust, or TypeScript/React, along with experience in Linux and containerized deployments. The role addresses the challenge of deploying cyber capabilities in unconventional environments by ensuring seamless integration between hardware, software, and networking components. Candidates must be able to debug across the full stack while translating ambiguous requirements into clean interfaces for complex mission-critical systems.
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