Senior Flight Software Engineer

Xapply; Quincy (MA); On-site; USD 191,000 - 253,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company pushing the boundaries of autonomous systems for maritime and national security. We seek a Senior Software Engineer to own embedded software across vehicle management, sensors, and mission interfaces, with a focus on safety‑critical, real‑time systems.

You will lead architectural decisions, drive end‑to‑end delivery, mentor engineers, and collaborate across multidisciplinary teams while traveling up to 20% to support customers and integrations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in robotics, mechatronics, CS, or engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Experience writing C and RTOS.
• Familiarity with CAN/CAN-FD, UART, SPI, I2C, Ethernet, ARINC protocols, MIL-STD-1553, etc.
• Strong systems programming skills including algorithms, data structures, concurrency, and optimization.
• Ability to own software components, define requirements, roadmaps, and coordinate teams.
• Ability to learn and mentor others, contributing to team cohesion.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement trusted, safety‑critical Vehicle Management Systems.
• Develop scalable vehicle sub‑systems like sensors, state estimation, actuation, and mission interfaces.
• Contribute to reusable software components across Anduril products.
• Develop real‑time embedded software using an RTOS.
• Create device drivers for sensors and actuators.
• Build test and simulation fixtures with hardware‑in‑the‑loop.
• Support vehicle manufacturing and deployment.
• Mentor software engineers from diverse backgrounds.
• Travel to co‑locate with end users up to 20%.

Skills

C programming

RTOS

Bus protocols

Systems programming

Technical leadership

Mentoring

Security clearance eligibility

Education

Bachelor's degree in robotics, mechatronics, CS, or engineering

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-\u2010edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

About the Team

Anduril’s Maritime Division has assembled a diverse team of experts in software, robotics, artificial intelligence, sensor fusion, and data analysis to create software and hardware solutions that radically evolve the capabilities of our customers. We are fielding the next generation of autonomous systems to tackle the extremely challenging industry demands of maritime operations. Anduril has brought to market a unique, ultra-long-range, full-ocean-depth underwater vessel platform and a completely refreshed maritime vehicle and flexible manufacturing architecture that scales from "small" to "extra-large" vehicle sizes. Today, Anduril is executing on billion-dollar contracts while simultaneously performing Robot-as-a-Service (RaaS) AUV operations. We are seeking to sustain our early successes with deep investment in an expanded product portfolio. These products, including Dive-XL, Dive-LD, Copperhead, Seabed Sentry, and other unannounced systems, will deliver a coherent system-of-systems, enabling the end-to-end conduct of a variety of autonomous missions in the maritime domain. If you are passionate about solving problems that have real impact and working on systems that directly contribute to achieving national strategic priorities, we want you to join Anduril’s Maritime Division and help us build the future of defense capability.

About the Job

Senior Software Engineers independently drive the delivery of a variety of embedded and/or safety critical software integrated in to our products. This includes device management, drivers, firmware, power management, networking, and contingency management and recovery. We expect Senior Software Engineers to demonstrate end-to-end outcome ownership at the major subsystem or system level. Senior Software Engineers contribute as a technical lead to the rapid architecting, design, delivery, support, and evolution of next generation autonomous platforms through their entire product life-cycle.

What You’ll Do

• Design and implement trusted, safety critical Vehicle Management Systems that balance constraints, restrictions and requirements in a multi-stakeholder environment.
• Design and implement scalable vehicle sub-systems including sensor processing, state estimation, contingency management, actuation, payload interfaces, and mission systems interfaces.
• Contribute to the design and development of existing software components across Anduril, with the aim of developing components that are re-\u2010usable across multiple Anduril product lines.
• Develop real-time embedded software using an RTOS.
• Develop device drivers and interfaces to a variety of sensors and actuators.
• Create test and simulation fixtures that operate with both software-and hardware-in-the-loop.
• Support vehicle manufacturing and deployment.
• Work as a member of a multi-disciplinary engineering team, including as a mentor for Software Engineers from differing backgrounds.
• Travel to co-locate with end-users and/or other teams up to 20% of the time.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Engineering, a relevant field, or equivalent experience.
• Experienced and proficient at writing C.
• Experience with Real Time Operating Systems (RTOS).
• Familiarity with communications busses and protocols (e.g. CAN, CANFD, UART/RS232/RS422/RS485, SPI, QSPI, I2C, Ethernet, ARINC-825, ARINC-429, MIL-STD-1553, etc).
• Systems programming skills including algorithms, data structures, concurrency and optimization.
• Capacity to act as the technical owner for a software component, including stakeholder engagement, requirements definition, roadmap management, team co-ordination, design, implementation, sustainment and evolution.
• Capacity to learn and grow individually, while mentoring junior team members effectively, contributing to team cohesion and capacity.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in design and development of embedded applications in autonomous vehicle software systems.
• Experience with development of high assurance safety critical software applications.
• Experience in developing interfaces to sensors and actuators.
• Experience troubleshooting and analyzing remotely deployed software systems.
• Experience working with and testing electrical and mechanical systems.
• Experience with DO-178, IEC 61508, or similar certifications.
• Familiarity with navigation and communications systems.
• Experience within the product delivery lifecycle including manufacturing, system acceptance, deployment, and sustainment.
• Familiarity with Systems Engineering concepts.
• Desire to learn and grow in to other roles that require experience as a Senior Software Engineer, such as Staff Software Engineer and/or Software Engineering Manager.
• Desire to grow in to a Tech-Lead-Manager role, with responsibility for line management of engineers, in addition to delivery.

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-\u2010tier benefits for full-\u2010time 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.

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