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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.
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Staff Software Engineer, Navigation and Control
The Staff Software Engineer, Navigation and Control joins the Maritime Division to own the navigation, guidance, and control architecture for a maritime autonomous vehicle. Reporting to the Cognitive Systems Lead, you will lead a team responsible for inertial navigation, safe navigation systems, and actuation control software. You will define how vehicles navigate across GPS-denied ocean environments by managing compute requirements, hardware selection, and sensor fusion trade studies. Key responsibilities include leading INS integration, defining safety certification approaches, and mentoring engineers. The role requires expertise in Kalman filtering, sensor fusion, and control system design for marine or aerospace vehicles. You will utilize tools like MATLAB and Simulink to solve complex maritime robotics problems, ensuring reliable depth keeping, hover, and autonomous movement in challenging underwater environments.
What does a Software Engineer earn in California?
Median $214500 from 1193 postings across 76 companies.
GN&C
Vehicle Autonomy
Embedded Systems
Inertial Navigation
Acoustic Communications
GPS-denied Navigation
Robotics
Safety-critical Software
Vehicle Management Systems
Control Systems
Communications Architecture
BLOS
LOS
Guidance Navigation and Control (GNC)
MATLAB
Simulink
C++
C
Python
Fortran
6DOF Simulation
Systems Engineering
Software Configuration Management (SCM)
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Linux
Windows
Trajectory Shaping
Flight Controls
Estimation Theory
Java
Object-Oriented Programming
Git
Jira
Linux
Generative AI
Multi-threading
Data Structures
Performance Testing
Source Code Management
Embedded Systems
UI/UX Design