Field-Deploy Software Engineer – AI-Driven Defense Systems

Engg; Costa Mesa, Washington (CA, District of Columbia); On-site; USD 191,000 - 253,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries in Costa Mesa is seeking a Forward Deployed Software Engineer to deploy and support our defense products globally. You will take ownership of solutions early in their lifecycle and coach teammates while collaborating with engineering teams to refine systems for field use.

You will also guide customers through product employment and troubleshooting, and coordinate with account managers to ensure technical success in dynamic environments.

Qualifications

• Ability to travel to Asia Pacific region for up to one months at a time (up to 50% of the year).
• Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics.
• Experience with Go, Rust, or Python.
• Experience with frontend frameworks such as React or Angular.
• Experience building software solutions involving significant amounts of data processing and analysis.
• Ability to quickly understand and navigate complex systems and established code bases.

Responsibilities

• Support military air defense projects by executing technical operations, conducting field maintenance, providing customer field support and training.
• Tackle complex issues related to hardware, software, and networking in unstructured situations, driving them to resolution.
• Communicate field issue status to internal and customer teams, keeping them informed.
• Support the development and implementation of comprehensive operational and logistical plans for various events.
• Ensure high availability and performance of air defense systems.
• Maintain support plans for hardware and software.
• Assist in event planning and resource allocation, keeping key stakeholders informed about Technical Operations requirements.
• Incident response root-cause analyses (RCAs) for defense systems in the field.
• Conduct post-incident reviews and implement preventive measures.
• Maintain up-to-date documentation.

Skills

Go

Rust

Python

React

Angular

Data processing

Education

B.S. in Computer Science

Tools

Kubernetes

Linux

Job description

Anduril Industries in Costa Mesa is seeking a Forward Deployed Software Engineer to deploy and support our defense products globally. You will take ownership of solutions early in their lifecycle and coach teammates while collaborating with engineering teams to refine systems for field use.

You will also guide customers through product employment and troubleshooting, and coordinate with account managers to ensure technical success in dynamic environments.