Robotic Software Engineer

Slope; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 253,000; Full time

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Job summary

Anduril Industries in Costa Mesa, CA, is seeking a Robotics Software Engineer to join our team. You will solve problems across networking, autonomy, systems integration, robotics, and perception, delivering pragmatic, scalable software for mission-critical outcomes.

The role requires strong systems-level knowledge, a proactive mindset, and the ability to operate with speed while maintaining mission focus. Travel up to 25% is required.

Qualifications

• Strong engineering background in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics.
• 3+ years of professional experience with C++ or Rust.
• Experience building software solutions with significant data processing and analysis.
• Ability to understand and navigate complex systems and codebases.
• Desire to work on critical software with real-world impact.
• Willingness to travel up to 25%.
• Eligible to obtain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Own the mission autonomy systems and services 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 analysis, and coordinate next steps.
• Partner with end-users to turn needs into features while balancing UX with engineering constraints.
• Travel up to 25% to build, test, and deploy capabilities in the real world.

Skills

C++

Rust

Data processing

Job description

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting‑edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Maneuver Dominance team at Anduril develops operationally relevant, multi‑asset autonomy. We are focused on making large groups of autonomous systems work effectively together. We leverage existing Anduril drone platforms like Ghost or Altius, in addition to bringing 3rd party platforms into Anduril’s Lattice ecosystem.

ABOUT THE JOB

We are looking for a Robotics Software Engineer to join our rapidly growing team in Costa Mesa, CA. In this role, you will be responsible for solving a wide variety of problems involving networking, autonomy, systems integration, robotics, perception, and more, while making pragmatic engineering tradeoffs along the way. Your work will ensure that Anduril products seamlessly work together to achieve a variety of critical outcomes. This will require strong systems‑level knowledge and experience. If you are someone who possesses a “Whatever It Takes” mindset—executing in an expedient, scalable, and pragmatic way while keeping the mission top‑of‑mind and making sound engineering decisions—then this role is for you.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Own the mission autonomy systems and services that are deployed to customers.
• Write code to improve products and scale the mission capability to more customers.
• Collaborate across multiple teams to plan, build, and test complex functionality.
• Create and analyze metrics that are leveraged for debugging and monitoring.
• Triage issues, root cause failures, and coordinate next‑steps.
• Partner with end‑users to turn needs into features while balancing user experience with engineering constraints.
• Travel up to 25% of the time to build, test, and deploy capabilities in the real world.

CORE REQUIREMENTS

• Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in areas/fields such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics.
• 3+ years of professional industry experience working with C++ or Rust programming languages.
• Experience building software solutions involving significant amounts of data processing and analysis.
• Ability to quickly understand and navigate complex systems and established code bases.
• A desire to work on critical software that has a real‑world impact.
• Must be willing to travel up to 25% for testing and demonstrations.
• Eligible to obtain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

PREFERRED REQUIREMENTS

• Strong background with focus in Physics, Mathematics, and/or Motion Planning to inform modeling & simulation and physical systems.
• Developing and testing multi‑agent autonomous systems and deploying in real‑world environments.
• Feature and algorithm development with an understanding of behavior trees.
• Developing software/hardware for flight systems and safety critical functionality.
• Experience with distributed communication networks and message standards.

US Salary Range $191,000 – $253,000 USD

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full‑time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top‑tier benefits for full‑time employees, including:

Benefits

At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next. For more information, Explore Our Benefits.