Senior Maritime Autonomy Engineer: Perception & Planning

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

Job summary

Anduril Industries seeks a senior software leader to own the software for a maritime autonomous vehicle, enabling reliable perception, planning, and execution in complex environments.

Reporting to the Mission Systems Lead, you will span perception pipelines, planning algorithms, and runtime execution, guiding cross-functional teams to rapidly deliver robust capabilities for Navy-scale missions and field deployments.

Qualifications

• 7+ years 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 sensor processing pipelines for sonar, radar, and EO/IR.
• Build object detection and classification algorithms for maritime environments.
• Develop multi-target tracking systems for real-time situational awareness.
• Integrate platform position and attitude into the context of mission requirements.
• Design and implement mission objective decomposition algorithms.
• Build resource allocation and constraint satisfaction systems for mission planning.
• Develop operator-facing planning interfaces for autonomous maritime missions.
• Design and implement 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 autonomous operations.
• Integrate mission systems with platform control, perception, and vehicle systems.
• Characterize and improve performance across perception, planning, and execution against operational requirements.
• Support testing and field deployment of mission capabilities.

Job description

Anduril Industries seeks a senior software leader to own the software for a maritime autonomous vehicle, enabling reliable perception, planning, and execution in complex environments.

Reporting to the Mission Systems Lead, you will span perception pipelines, planning algorithms, and runtime execution, guiding cross-functional teams to rapidly deliver robust capabilities for Navy-scale missions and field deployments.