Air Defense Software Engineer — Radar, Cameras & NixOS

Telemetry Today LLC; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 167,000 - 222,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries in Irvine, CA is seeking a Software Engineer to own and develop software for Air Defense tower variants, built on our declarative NixOS platform.

You will integrate radar and infrared camera services, manage payload configurations, networking, and build pipelines while aligning with program requirements.

The role emphasizes breadth over depth, with travel light and opportunities to shape a growing defense platform.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional software engineering building and shipping real systems.
• Proficiency in Rust or C++, with the ability to work across an existing codebase.
• Solid Linux systems fundamentals: the command line, systemd, networking basics, and log-driven debugging.
• Practical experience integrating software with hardware, whether sensors, embedded devices, or instrumentation, and comfort working on a bench with real equipment.
• Demonstrated ability to own a piece of a larger system end to end, including the unglamorous parts: configuration, deployment, testing, and support.
• Clear written communication, since you'll be the interface between a program's requirements and the team's implementation.
• US person status required, with eligibility to obtain and maintain a US security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Own the software configuration for the Air Defense tower variants: product definitions, payload and sensor configuration, networking, and image builds in our declarative platform.
• Integrate and support the variants' sensor payloads, particularly radar and infrared camera services, including the configuration and behavior differences that separate them from our perimeter security products.
• Develop features driven by Air Defense program requirements, working from program needs through design, implementation, and delivery into a shipping product.
• Migrate the variants' legacy configuration onto our modern platform base, replacing product-specific one-offs with the common, composable modules the rest of the fleet uses.
• Own the variants' software update and deployment path, and the manufacturing test configuration that validates units as they're built.
• Support the product in the field and on the line: triage issues, reproduce and root-cause them, fix what's yours, and drive what isn't with the owning team.
• Work with the Air Defense program's engineers and stakeholders to keep requirements, schedule, and technical reality aligned.

Skills

Rust or C++

Linux fundamentals

Hardware integration

End-to-end ownership

Clear written communication

US person status

Tools

Nix/NixOS

Job description

Anduril Industries in Irvine, CA is seeking a Software Engineer to own and develop software for Air Defense tower variants, built on our declarative NixOS platform.

You will integrate radar and infrared camera services, manage payload configurations, networking, and build pipelines while aligning with program requirements.

The role emphasizes breadth over depth, with travel light and opportunities to shape a growing defense platform.