Mission Software Engineer – Air Defense Autonomy

Anduril Industries; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 166,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Equity grants

Job summary

Anduril Industries in Irvine, CA is seeking a Software Engineer for the Air Defense team to own and evolve software deployed to customers. You will tackle networking, autonomy, systems integration, and robotics challenges, balancing performance with pragmatic engineering choices.

Ideal candidates bring 3+ years of multi-language software development (Python, C++, Rust, Go, JavaScript), a data-driven mindset, and the ability to understand complex systems with security clearances in scope.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software development experience with listed languages and a strong foundation in CS/SE.
• Experience building software for data processing and analysis, scalable systems, and performance.
• Ability to understand and navigate complex systems and code bases deeply.

Responsibilities

• Own the software solutions deployed to customers.
• Write code to improve products and scale mission capability to more customers.
• Collaborate across teams to plan, build, and test complex functionality.
• Create and analyze metrics for debugging and monitoring.
• Triage issues and coordinate next steps with stakeholders.
• Travel up to 30% to build, test, and deploy capabilities in the real world.

Skills

Python

C++

Rust

Go

JavaScript

Job description

Anduril Industries in Irvine, CA is seeking a Software Engineer for the Air Defense team to own and evolve software deployed to customers. You will tackle networking, autonomy, systems integration, and robotics challenges, balancing performance with pragmatic engineering choices.

Ideal candidates bring 3+ years of multi-language software development (Python, C++, Rust, Go, JavaScript), a data-driven mindset, and the ability to understand complex systems with security clearances in scope.