Staff Robotics Software Engineer, CUAS, Omen

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Maneuver Dominance team at Anduril develops operationally relevant, multi-asset autonomy. Omen is Anduril’s hover-to-cruise autonomous air vehicle (AAV) that packs the endurance, payload, and mission flexibility of much larger airplanes into a novel runway-independent Group 3 platform. Omen can operate from ship decks, beaches, or remote island clearings, providing true runway independence and freedom of maneuver across defense and civilian domains. Omen is the first tail-sitter aircraft with a mass-production contract, with an order of 50 systems representing a decisive investment that anchors production and accelerates the development of future systems.

ABOUT THE JOB

Small drones are hard to hit. Hitting them from a moving aircraft is harder. We need a Staff Software Engineer to own software integration of Omen’s airborne counter-UAS effector payload end to end, and to build the team around it.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Own and lead the autonomy architecture for Omen’s cUAS dogfighting mission end to end, from first prototype to fielded software. Find the target, fly the fight, take the shot.
• Collaborate with the Omen Perception team to develop target tracking and perception. Architect the optimal approach to combine data from multiple sensor sources to meet demanding mission objectives.
• Design the intercept guidance and pursuit planning that puts the aircraft in a firing position against a maneuvering target, within the vehicle’s operational limits.
• Work alongside the Omen Autonomy team which owns core autonomy systems and will embed autonomy engineers on your team for specific tactics development.
• Own fire control software. Lead and ballistic solutions, targeting commands, and the logic that decides when to shoot.
• Hold the sensor-to-shot latency budget and know where every millisecond goes.
• Own software interfaces with the payload, vehicle, and mission compute. Message definitions, timing, time sync, and command authority.
• Build the simulation that proves the engagement works before flight. Then plan and run flight test campaigns, including live range events, and lead the root-cause work when results don’t match prediction.
• Take it to the field. Verification and validation, release and configuration control, and the sustainment path for fielded software. Write requirements for SEIT and V&V engineers to test and validate your system.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 6+ years building software for robotic or autonomous systems, including at least one system you carried from concept to field deployment
• Strong engineering background, ideally in Robotics, Computer Science, Aerospace, or Electrical Engineering
• Experience leading multidisciplinary software teams, including hiring
• Strong Rust or C++ for real-time and embedded systems, plus Python for tools and analysis
• Deep experience in target tracking and sensor fusion: state estimation, filtering, data association, and track quality on small, maneuvering targets
• Experience with guidance, motion planning, or control for fast-moving vehicles, and a working grasp of the latency and bandwidth tradeoffs that come with it
• Experience integrating and characterizing perception sensors in software.
• Experience building closed-loop simulation for algorithm validation, and using flight or field data to close the gap between sim and reality
• Hands-on field test experience, from test planning and instrumentation through the data analysis that closes a design question
• Experience as the technical owner of a safety-critical autonomy system: requirements, architecture, V&V, and release. Familiarity with US Export regulations as it applies to weapon system software
• Ability to travel about 25% with potential surges for test and demonstration events
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Direct experience with fire control, weapon, or effector software, including weapon release logic and safe and arm
• Counter-UAS experience, whether engagement chains, fire control, or targeting small unmanned aircraft
• Air-to-air autonomy, pursuit-evasion, or adversarial planning, including reinforcement learning or game-theoretic methods
• VTOL, tail-sitter, or rotorcraft autonomy, and familiarity with the flight envelope limits they impose
• Experience with gimbal or turret pointing software, stabilization, boresighting, or targeting chains
• Familiarity with lead and ballistic solutions and sensor-to-effector latency
• Software safety standards for weapon or flight systems (MIL-STD-882E, DO-178C, or equivalent)
• Real-time operating systems, embedded Linux, middleware such as ROS 2 or DDS, and time-synchronized systems
• Simulation tools such as Gazebo, Unreal, or AirSim, and Monte Carlo engagement analysis