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This role pays more than
89%
of similar roles. Most pay
$176,200–$238,250
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At the midpoint, this role pays about
$256k
versus about
$207k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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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
916 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$166,000–$220,000
across 872 roles with salary data.
The Staff Software Engineer, AI joins the Internal AI team to build the company's core AI infrastructure and tooling. This role involves developing autonomous coding agents, agentic automation systems, and model-serving components that all employees rely on daily. You will propose, prototype, and deploy agentic systems to solve real-world problems, while building data pipelines and feature workflows. Key responsibilities include working cross-functionally to convert manual workflows into technical automation. Required skills include experience taking AI systems into production or traditional machine learning, optimizing AI coding assistants, and utilizing event-driven architecture. You must possess a product mindset to build modular, reusable automation components. The work focuses on creating an internal AI ecosystem to automate workflows and improve reasoning through state-of-the-art techniques in code generation and agentic automation.
What does a Software Engineer earn in California?
Median $214500 from 1116 postings across 75 companies.