Senior Software Engineer, Active Clearance, Air Defense

The Air Defense team builds robots that detect airborne threats and neutralizes them. At a time when air superiority can no longer be taken for granted, the Air Defense Team provides mission critical capabilities to warfighters. From detection to tracking, identification, deterrence, and defeat, our family of networked sensors and effectors enables our customers to rapidly close the kill chain against a broad range of Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) threats.

Working across product, engineering, sales, logistics, operations, and mission success, the Air Defense team develops, tests, deploys, and sustains the Anduril Air Defense Family of Systems (FoS) in challenging operational environments worldwide.

ABOUT THE JOB We are hiring for a Senior Software Engineer to join rapidly growing team in Irvine, CA. As a Senior Software Engineer, 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.

- Write code to improve products and scale the mission capability to more customers

- Collaborate across multiple teams to plan, build, and test complex functionality

- Create and analyze metrics that are leveraged for debugging and monitoring

- Triage issues, root cause failures, and coordinate next-steps

- Partner with end-users to turn needs into features while balancing user experience with engineering constraints

- Travel 30% of time to build, test, and deploy capabilities in the real world

- Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in areas/fields such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Computer Engineering

- 7+ years working with a variety of programming languages such as Python, Rust, Go, etc.

- Experience building software solutions involving significant amounts of data processing and analysis

- Ability to quickly understand and navigate complex systems and established code bases

- A desire to work on critical software that has a real-world impact

- Developing and testing multi-agent autonomous systems and deploying in real-world environments

- Feature and algorithm development with an understanding of behavior trees

- Developing software/hardware for flight systems and safety critical functionality