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Reston, Virginia, United States
Onsite
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.
The Mission Software Engineering team builds, deploys, integrates, extends, and scales Anduril's software to deliver mission-critical capabilities to our customers. As the software engineers closest to Anduril customers and end-users, Mission Software Engineers solve technical challenges of operational scenarios while owning the end-to-end delivery of winning capabilities such as Counter Intrusion, Joint All Domain Command & Control, and Counter-Unmanned Aircraft Systems.
As a Software Engineer on the Mission Software Engineering team, you will solve a wide variety of problems involving networking, autonomy, systems integration, robotics, and more, while making pragmatic engineering tradeoffs along the way. Your efforts will ensure that Anduril products seamlessly work together to achieve a variety of critical outcomes. Above all, Mission Software Engineers are driven by a “Whatever It Takes” mindset—executing in an expedient, scalable, and pragmatic way while keeping the mission top-of-mind and making sound engineering decisions to deliver successful outcomes correctly, on-time, and with high quality.
Own the software solutions that are deployed to customers
Write code to improve products and scale the mission capability to more customers
Collaborate across multiple teams to plan, build, and test complex functionality
Build and analyze metrics and dashboards to debug and monitor production systems
Triage issues, root cause failures, and drive resolution across teams
Write and maintain tests, and contribute to CI/CD pipelines to ship safely and quickly
Partner with end-users to turn needs into features while balancing user experience with engineering constraints
Limited travel required
Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in areas/fields such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics.
At least 2-5+ years of professional experience with TypeScript; experience with Go and Python is preferred. (We encourage all levels to apply)
Experience building and shipping user-facing web interfaces (e.g., React, Vue, or similar modern frontend frameworks)
Experience building software solutions involving significant amounts of distributed systems and high-throughput data pipelines
Ability to quickly understand and navigate complex systems and established code bases
Strong debugging skills, with the ability to isolate and resolve issues across distributed, multi-service systems
Strong testing discipline (unit, integration) and experience working with CI/CD pipelines
Strong Git skills (branching, rebasing, resolving conflicts) — we move fast and ship continuously
A desire to work on critical software that has a real-world impact
Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. TS clearance
At least 2-5+ years of experience working in Linux environments
Experience with Kubernetes (k8s)
Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or similar
Experience with Protocol Buffers and gRPC
Customer Facing - Mission Software Engineers are the software engineers closest to Anduril customers, end-users, and the technical challenges of operational scenarios.
Mission First - Above all, MSEs execute their mission in an expedient, scalable, and pragmatic way. They keep the mission top-of-mind and make pragmatic and thoughtful engineering decisions to deliver successful outcomes.
Small Project Wrangling = Large Project Impact - Our MSEs are the voice of our business line(s). They are the forcing function that gets us to think about how a project will transition to production and tie in to the centralized functions across the business.
Embrace Challenge (and follow through) - We take responsibility for achieving the mission; Developing technical self-sufficiency across a wide range of environments. Ruthlessly prioritizing, while honing our ability to understand large systems and incorporate new components in varying levels of complexity.
The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:
At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next. For more information, Explore Our Benefits.
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