Senior Maritime Autonomy Engineer – Perception and Planning

Anduril; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 220,000 - 292,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a senior software engineer to own the software enabling a maritime autonomous vehicle to perceive its environment, plan actions, and execute missions. You will collaborate across perception, planning, and runtime execution to deliver robust, real-time capabilities for field-deployed systems.

This role emphasizes leading cross-functional teams, translating operational needs into software requirements, and ensuring performance under stringent timing, security, and

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in autonomous systems software, robotics, perception, or real-time systems.
• Experience building software for field-deployed autonomous systems.
• Depth in at least one of perception, mission planning, or runtime mission execution, with working knowledge of the others.
• Proficiency in real-time software development with stringent timing requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to handle complex state management in production systems.
• Ability to translate operational mission requirements into software requirements.
• Ability to characterize system performance and drive measurable improvements.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret security clearance.
• Ability to receive, process, and disposition encrypted data

Responsibilities

• Design and implement perception pipelines for sonar, radar, and EO/IR.
• Develop object detection and classification algorithms for maritime environments.
• Build and maintain multi-target tracking systems for real-time situational awareness.
• Integrate platform position and attitude into mission requirements.
• Design and implement mission objective decomposition algorithms.
• Develop resource allocation and constraint satisfaction for mission planning.
• Create operator-facing planning interfaces for autonomous missions.
• Develop behavior execution software for autonomous maritime missions.
• Build real-time decision-making systems for mission execution.
• Develop contingency handling and failure response logic.
• Manage mission state across complex, multi-phase operations.
• Integrate mission systems with platform control, perception, and vehicle systems.
• Characterize and improve performance across perception, planning, and execution.
• Support testing and field deployment of mission capabilities.

Skills

Autonomous systems software

Robotics software

Real-time systems

Field deployment experience

Perception

Mission planning

Runtime mission execution

State management

Security clearance (US)

Data encryption handling

Tools

ROS

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking a senior software engineer to own the software enabling a maritime autonomous vehicle to perceive its environment, plan actions, and execute missions. You will collaborate across perception, planning, and runtime execution to deliver robust, real-time capabilities for field-deployed systems.

This role emphasizes leading cross-functional teams, translating operational needs into software requirements, and ensuring performance under stringent timing, security, and