Autonomy & Path-Planning Software Engineer

Anduril Industries, Inc.; Waltham (MA); On-site; USD 129,000 - 171,000; Full time

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Job summary

Anduril Industries, Inc. is seeking a highly skilled engineer to advance path planning and autonomous mission execution within its Battlespace Awareness Command and Control software team. You will work on real-time algorithms and distributed C2 systems deployed to fielded platforms.

Join a small, innovative team focused on state-of-the-art planning, routing, and multi-agent coordination. A US Secret clearance is required, with opportunities to impact national defense technology and systems used

Qualifications

• 3+ years in algorithm design, software development, and mathematical modeling with C/C++ and/or Rust.
• Strong knowledge of path planning techniques: graph-based search (A*, D* Lite), sampling-based planners (RRT, RRT*, PRM), and online/real-time replanning.
• Experience in guidance, navigation, and control (GNC); trajectory optimization and trajectory prediction; and/or development of predictive models for vehicle dynamics and weapon system effectiveness (e.g., 6-DoF simulation).
• Mathematics: linear algebra, optimization, computational geometry, and graph theory.
• Knowledge of vehicle dynamics and control for autonomous platforms.
• Familiarity with map representations, terrain reasoning, state estimation, and handling large-scale geospatial data in distributed C2 architectures.
• Exposure to machine learning applied to planning and decision-making, including reinforcement learning and learned heuristics.
• Ability to write robust, concurrent code for planning under uncertainty in dynamic environments.
• Ability to work across development lifecycles from prototyping to production.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to a small team in Command and Control software, focusing on path planning and routing.
• Prototype and deploy algorithms for global/local path planning and multi-agent coordination.
• Develop online real-time path planning that replans as conditions change.
• Build real-time C2 software for operator tools and autonomous routing across fleets.
• Implement planners, search algorithms, and decision systems for safe routes.
• Analyze performance with simulations and statistics to validate planner behavior.
• Support customer success by delivering algorithms for collaborative autonomy and threat avoidance.
• Integrate path planning into the broader C2 stack from requirements to testing.
• Translate progress into actionable insights for stakeholders.

Skills

C/C++

Rust

Path planning

Trajectory optimization

Mathematical modeling

Linear algebra

Control theory

Geospatial data handling

Concurrent programming

Security clearance

Tools

6-DoF simulation

Job description

Anduril Industries, Inc. is seeking a highly skilled engineer to advance path planning and autonomous mission execution within its Battlespace Awareness Command and Control software team. You will work on real-time algorithms and distributed C2 systems deployed to fielded platforms.

Join a small, innovative team focused on state-of-the-art planning, routing, and multi-agent coordination. A US Secret clearance is required, with opportunities to impact national defense technology and systems used