Senior Manager, Software Engineering, Intelligence Systems

Anduril-1; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 220,000 - 292,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Top-tier benefits

Job summary

Anduril Industries in Reston, VA is seeking a Senior Manager, Software Engineering for Intelligence Systems to lead a high-velocity team building software and UI for SoC devices, balancing people leadership and technical direction.

You will collaborate with Product Managers, Embedded Systems Engineers, Backend Leads, and Hardware teams to ensure robust, mission-critical web applications with rigorous testing and validation.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience managing software engineering teams.
• 5+ years of software development with TypeScript, React, and modern CSS/SCSS.
• Experience with RESTful APIs, front-end testing, and Protobufs.
• Active U.S. Secret security clearance required.

Responsibilities

• Lead and scale a high-velocity software team delivering mission-critical web UIs.
• Define technical strategy and architecture for reliable, low-latency interfaces.
• Collaborate with Product, Embedded Systems, Backend, and Hardware teams to align roadmaps.

Skills

Team leadership

TypeScript

React

Redux Toolkit

RESTful APIs

Front-end testing

Protobufs

Security clearance

Job description

Senior Manager, Software Engineering, Intelligence Systems

Reston, Virginia, United States

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

Anduril Intelligence Systems (AIS) is focused on positioning Anduril as a lead provider of specialized engineering and next generation national security products for Intelligence Community (IC) customers. We work within the IC to understand their requirements, shape their concepts of operation, and deliver exquisite capability across their problem set. We aim to develop and deploy critically needed capabilities that address our customers’ most pressing national security requirements.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Anduril’s AIS team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead, and scale a high-velocity team responsible for the software and user-interface ecosystem powering next-generation hardware platforms and System-on-Chip (SoC) devices. In this role, you will balance people leadership, technical direction, and operational execution, ensuring your team delivers robust, mission-critical web applications that are rigorously tested and validated.

• Team Leadership & People Management: Mentor and retain a high-performing team of front-end and full-stack software engineers.
• Technical Strategy & Architecture: Guide the architectural direction for mission-critical web UIs, ensuring high reliability, test coverage, low latency, and seamless state synchronization with underlying hardware and backend services.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Product Managers, Embedded Systems Engineers, Backend Leads, and Hardware teams to align UI roadmaps with customer delivery milestones.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years of experience managing software engineering teams
• 5+ years of software development experience with deep expertise in modern web ecosystems, including TypeScript, modern CSS/SCSS, and React (with state management tools such as Redux Toolkit).
• Experience using RESTful APIs and addressing common challenges, such as state management and concurrency
• Experience with front-end testing methodologies and tools, such as React Testing Library, Cypress, and Jest
• Experience with serialization and deserialization frameworks like Protobufs
• Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance, at a minimum.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Prior experience leading teams at the intersection of hardware/embedded devices and software interfaces (e.g., SoC integration, robotics, IoT, or edge computing).
• Technical breadth covering backend/systems programming languages (C, C++, Rust, or Go) and modern microservice architectures.
• Experience with IPC models in embedded contexts
• Experience implementing authentication and authorization in classified or air-gapped environments.

US Salary Range

$220,000 - $292,000 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:

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.

As set forth in Anduril Industries’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy,we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.

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We are a federal contractor or subcontractor. The law requires us to provide equal employment opportunity to qualified people with disabilities. We have a goal of having at least 7% of our workers as people with disabilities. The law says we must measure our progress towards this goal. To do this, we must ask applicants and employees if they have a disability or have ever had one. People can become disabled, so we need to ask this question at least every five years.

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