Backend Engineer, LLM Agent Platform (Equity)

Anduril; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 220,000 - 292,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Top-tier benefits package

Highly competitive equity grants

Job summary

Anduril is seeking a Backend Software Engineer to enhance its internal LLM agent framework. This position is crucial for developing, evaluating, and deploying LLM agents effective in critical environments. Candidates will have strong backend engineering skills, expertise in LLM frameworks, and familiarity with reliability and debugging in high-stakes applications.

The role offers a competitive salary range of $220,000 – $292,000 USD and includes top-tier benefits aimed at supporting employee well-being.

Qualifications

• Strong backend engineering experience building production-quality platforms, frameworks, APIs, or infrastructure used by other engineers.
• Deep expertise in LLM agent framework design, including orchestration patterns and agent evaluation paradigms.
• Ability to work with partner teams to understand ambiguous product needs and provide solutions.

Responsibilities

• Own Anduril’s internal LLM agent framework including core abstractions and runtime architecture.
• Support multiple business lines in building LLM agents and provide architectural reviews.
• Design tooling that supports modern agent patterns and evaluation suites.

Skills

Backend engineering experience

LLM agent framework design

Debugging and safety for LLM applications

Experience with Kubernetes

Familiarity with defense and autonomy

Tools

Docker

Distributed systems

Job description

Anduril is seeking a Backend Software Engineer to enhance its internal LLM agent framework. This position is crucial for developing, evaluating, and deploying LLM agents effective in critical environments. Candidates will have strong backend engineering skills, expertise in LLM frameworks, and familiarity with reliability and debugging in high-stakes applications.

The role offers a competitive salary range of $220,000 – $292,000 USD and includes top-tier benefits aimed at supporting employee well-being.