Mission Software Engineer — Autonomy & Defense Systems

Anduril Industries, Inc.; Washington, Northern (District of Columbia, KY); Hybrid; USD 166,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Competitive benefits package

Job summary

Anduril Industries in Washington, D.C. seeks a Software Engineer to solve networking, autonomy, systems integration, and robotics challenges, ensuring seamless product collaboration and delivering critical outcomes.

The role emphasizes pragmatic engineering and high-quality, on-time delivery. The engineer will own customer deployments, write scalable code, and collaborate across teams while prioritizing user experience within engineering constraints.

Qualifications

• Engineering background from industry or school; CS, SWE, math, or physics preferred.
• Experience with data processing and analysis.
• Experience with Go, Rust, or Python.
• Experience with frontend frameworks React or Angular.
• Ability to navigate complex systems and code bases.
• Willingness to travel up to 50%.

Responsibilities

• Own the software solutions deployed to customers.
• Write code to improve products and scale mission capability to more customers.
• Collaborate across multiple teams to plan, build, and test complex functionality.
• Create and analyze metrics for debugging and monitoring.
• Triage issues, root cause failures, and coordinate next steps.
• Partner with end-users to turn needs into features while balancing UX and engineering constraints.
• Travel up to 50% to build, test, and deploy capabilities.

Skills

Go

Rust

Python

React

Angular

Data processing

System navigation

Willingness to travel

Education

Computer Science

Software Engineering

Mathematics

Physics

Tools

React

Angular

Job description

Anduril Industries in Washington, D.C. seeks a Software Engineer to solve networking, autonomy, systems integration, and robotics challenges, ensuring seamless product collaboration and delivering critical outcomes.

The role emphasizes pragmatic engineering and high-quality, on-time delivery. The engineer will own customer deployments, write scalable code, and collaborate across teams while prioritizing user experience within engineering constraints.