Mission Software Engineer — Global Defense Tech & Travel

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Software Engineer to tackle networking, autonomy, systems integration, and robotics. You will own customer deployments and write scalable code, collaborating across teams to deliver complex features with measurable impact.

The role emphasizes pragmatic engineering, data-driven decision making, and travel up to 50% to validate capabilities in real-world environments.

Qualifications

• Fluent Mandarin language skills and willingness to travel up to 50% to Asia Pacific.
• Strong engineering background from industry or school (CS/Software Eng/Math/Physics).
• Experience with Go, Rust, or Python.
• Experience with frontend frameworks such as React or Angular.
• Experience building software with significant data processing and analysis.
• Ability to understand and navigate complex systems and code bases.
• Desire to work on critical software with real-world impact.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Mandarin fluency

Go

Rust

Python

Data processing

Systems comprehension

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Software Eng/Math/Physics

Tools

React

Angular

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking a Software Engineer to tackle networking, autonomy, systems integration, and robotics. You will own customer deployments and write scalable code, collaborating across teams to deliver complex features with measurable impact.

The role emphasizes pragmatic engineering, data-driven decision making, and travel up to 50% to validate capabilities in real-world environments.