Senior Backend Engineer, Digital Twin & V&V for Fabrication

Anduril; Santa Ana (CA); On-site; USD 191,000 - 253,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company pushing the boundaries of autonomy, AI, and 3D visualization in modern manufacturing. The Software Engineer, Backend on SIG builds backend services that power simulation, digital twin validation, and V&V automation systems across factory lines.

You will integrate CAD data, 3D visualization, and enterprise systems, ensuring robust, scalable APIs and edge-ready deployments in production environments.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience building production systems.
• Strong backend development foundation with APIs and distributed systems.
• Fluency in RESTful design, GraphQL, or gRPC; cloud/edge infra experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement backend services orchestrating simulation frameworks and validation pipelines.
• Develop APIs exposing results to downstream systems including UE5 visualizations and dashboards.
• Collaborate with manufacturing engineers to translate workflows into backend requirements.
• Write production-grade code with tests and code reviews.
• Build data pipelines and database schemas for simulation results and V&V records.
• Operate systems in factory environments including edge compute and OT networks.

Skills

Backend development

Distributed systems

APIs

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

Docker

Kubernetes

Python

Go

Java

Rust

PostgreSQL

MySQL

MongoDB

Redis

RESTful API

GraphQL

gRPC

Git

Testing frameworks

HA/low latency

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

Job description

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company pushing the boundaries of autonomy, AI, and 3D visualization in modern manufacturing. The Software Engineer, Backend on SIG builds backend services that power simulation, digital twin validation, and V&V automation systems across factory lines.

You will integrate CAD data, 3D visualization, and enterprise systems, ensuring robust, scalable APIs and edge-ready deployments in production environments.