Senior Mission Software Engineer - Autonomy & Defense Systems

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

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive benefits

Job summary

Anduril Industries is hiring a Mission Software Engineer to tackle networking, autonomy, systems integration, and robotics challenges. You will own customer-deployed software, write scalable code, and collaborate across teams to deliver features with real-world impact.

The role requires building data-driven solutions, rapid tradeoffs, and travel up to 25% for field validation, while aiming for high-quality, on-time outcomes in a fast-paced defense tech environment.

Qualifications

• Strong engineering background in CS/Software Eng/Math/Physics.
• Experience with Go, Rust, or Python.
• Experience with frontend frameworks React or Angular.
• Experience building software solutions with significant data processing and analysis.
• Ability to quickly understand and navigate complex systems and code bases.
• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Top Secret SCI clearance.
• Willingness to travel up to 25%.

Responsibilities

• Own the software solutions deployed to customers.
• Write code to improve products and scale mission capability to more customers.
• Collaborate across multiple teams to plan, build, and test complex functionality.
• Create and analyze metrics leveraged for debugging and monitoring.
• Triage issues, root cause failures, and coordinate next-steps.
• Partner with end-users to turn needs into features while balancing user experience with engineering constraints.
• Travel up to 25% to build, test, and deploy capabilities in the real world.

Skills

Go

Rust

Python

React

Angular

Data processing

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering / Mathematics / Physics

Tools

Git

Job description

Anduril Industries is hiring a Mission Software Engineer to tackle networking, autonomy, systems integration, and robotics challenges. You will own customer-deployed software, write scalable code, and collaborate across teams to deliver features with real-world impact.

The role requires building data-driven solutions, rapid tradeoffs, and travel up to 25% for field validation, while aiming for high-quality, on-time outcomes in a fast-paced defense tech environment.