Mission Systems Software Engineer — Autonomous Defense Tech

Linuxconfig; Costa Mesa, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 166,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Mission Software Engineer for the Mission Systems team within Air Dominance & Strike (AD&S). You will own distributed mission software from development to field deployment, integrating with Lattice OS and coordinating with cross-functional teams to enable multi-vehicle operations.

You will work on low-latency, high-performance systems using C++, Rust, and modern tooling in a Linux environment, with opportunities to travel and engage with government programs.

Qualifications

• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or related field.
• 2-3+ years of production-grade C++, Rust or equivalent experience in a Linux development environment.
• Experience building low-latency, high performance software solutions.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and container orchestration.
• Experience taking software from initial development through fielded deployment, working closely with other teams to get it into operational use.
• Travel up to 30% of time to build, test, and deploy capabilities in the real world.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance.
• Track record of high ownership and bias for action.
• Experience building or maintaining distributed systems (message buses, RPC frameworks, consensus protocols, or similar).
• Familiarity with asynchronous programming models (async/await, event loops, futures).
• Comfort working with Protocol Buffers and/or gRPC.
• Experience with DDS.
• Deep expertise with k3s and/or STIG’d RHEL.
• Experience deploying, debugging, and testing software on physical systems in both lab and test site environments.
• Familiarity with government reference architectures.
• Knowledge of military systems and operational tactics.
• Active Secret U.S. security clearance.
• US Salary Range ($166,000 - $220,000).

Responsibilities

• Builds and maintains distributed mission software for autonomous systems.
• Integrates software with Lattice OS and mission payloads.
• Collaborates with hardware, systems, and program management teams to deploy in fielded operations.
• Ensures low-latency, high-performance software in real-world environments.

Skills

C++

Rust

Kubernetes

Git & GitHub

Distributed systems

Async programming

Protobuf

gRPC

DDS

K3s

RHEL (STIG’d)

Education

BS/MS/PhD in CS or related field

Tools

Git & GitHub

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking a Mission Software Engineer for the Mission Systems team within Air Dominance & Strike (AD&S). You will own distributed mission software from development to field deployment, integrating with Lattice OS and coordinating with cross-functional teams to enable multi-vehicle operations.

You will work on low-latency, high-performance systems using C++, Rust, and modern tooling in a Linux environment, with opportunities to travel and engage with government programs.