Senior C++ Real-Time Distributed Simulation Engineer

Openkrill; United States; Remote; USD 191,000 - 253,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive benefits

Equity

Job summary

Anduril Industries in the United States is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build the simulation layer of the SIE platform, focusing on C++ real-time services and cross-team collaboration.

You’ll design, implement, and ship scalable components, work with Go/TypeScript on adjacent services, and mentor teammates while navigating ambiguity to deliver deterministic simulation outcomes for defense applications.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Deep, current production experience in modern C++ (C++17 or newer).
• Experience building networked, concurrent, or real-time systems in C++.
• Strong systems fundamentals: memory layout, sockets/UDP/TCP, Linux.
• Ability to profile and optimize a real system with data-driven reasoning.
• Experience owning cross-cutting projects end-to-end.
• Experience working with Go/TypeScript in adjacent areas.
• Active U.S. Secret security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Design and build C++ services that federate simulators into a single world.
• Own the wire layer: protocol encoding, transport, interoperability.
• Make simulation runs deterministic and reproducible with time control and replay.
• Develop scenario authoring tooling and reuse of environment definitions.
• Create content and resource catalogs for search and reuse of definitions.
• Profile hot paths and manage latency/throughput under load.
• Integrate with other platform services and gRPC/protobuf APIs.
• Set technical direction, write design docs, and mentor the team.
• Collaborate with business lines to onboard simulators and workflows.
• Create documentation and reference integrations to enable self-serve.

Skills

C++ (modern,17+)

Real-time systems

Distributed systems

Go/TypeScript familiarity

Security clearance

Education

Computer Science degree or equivalent

Tools

gRPC/protobuf

Kubernetes

Job description

Anduril Industries in the United States is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build the simulation layer of the SIE platform, focusing on C++ real-time services and cross-team collaboration.

You’ll design, implement, and ship scalable components, work with Go/TypeScript on adjacent services, and mentor teammates while navigating ambiguity to deliver deterministic simulation outcomes for defense applications.