Field Software Engineer – Perimeter Security Towers

Anduril Industries, Inc.; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 167,000 - 222,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Benefits package

Job summary

Anduril Industries in Irvine, CA, is seeking a Software Engineer to own the software configuration for the Sentry Towers program, integrate towers into customer networks, and manage deployment and updates in the field. You will travel about 30% internationally, triage field issues, build runbooks, and ensure customer requirements influence engineering roadmaps.

This hands-on role emphasizes field readiness and robust, deployable software.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional software engineering, with time spent on systems that are deployed and operated rather than only developed.
• Solid Linux systems skills: the command line, systemd, log analysis, and the ability to diagnose a misbehaving service on a machine you didn't set up.
• Practical networking competence: addressing and subnetting, routing, DNS, VLANs, and packet capture, enough to integrate a system into someone else's network and debug it when it doesn't come up.
• Proficiency in at least one of Python, Rust, C++, or Go, and willingness to work in Rust and C++ where our services live.
• Willingness and ability to travel approximately 30% of the time, including extended international trips that cannot be rescheduled around, and to work effectively on customer sites.
• Strong written communication and follow-through, since much of this role is coordinating across time zones and leaving behind documentation someone else depends on.
• US person status required. Active US Secret clearance, or a previously granted Secret clearance eligible for reactivation.

Responsibilities

• Own the software configuration for this program's tower variants in our declarative platform, from product definitions through payload and sensor configuration to image builds.
• Integrate towers into the customer's network and communications environment, covering addressing, routing, backhaul, and any interfaces the program requires.
• Own the deployment and software update path for the program's fielded systems, including provisioning, staged rollout, and verification that an update landed cleanly.
• Travel to customer sites for installation, integration, commissioning, and operator support, including extended international deployments, at approximately 30% of your time.
• Be the program's technical front line: triage field issues, reproduce them on a bench or in simulation, root‑cause them, and either fix them directly or drive the fix with the owning team.
• Build the tooling, documentation, and runbooks that let field personnel and the customer's own operators resolve routine problems without escalating.
• Represent the program back into engineering, making sure customer requirements and field realities reach the teams whose roadmaps need to reflect them.

Skills

Software engineering

Linux

Networking

Python

Rust

C++

Go

Travel readiness

Job description

Anduril Industries in Irvine, CA, is seeking a Software Engineer to own the software configuration for the Sentry Towers program, integrate towers into customer networks, and manage deployment and updates in the field. You will travel about 30% internationally, triage field issues, build runbooks, and ensure customer requirements influence engineering roadmaps.

This hands-on role emphasizes field readiness and robust, deployable software.