Senior Platform Engineer, Embedded Systems & NixOS

Anduril Industries; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 253,000 - 336,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries seeks a Principal Engineer for its Software Platform Foundations team to define and ensure a robust, scalable platform capable of shipping devices across multiple product lines.

You will be the senior technical voice for platform consumers—engineers integrating Lattice, flashing boards, and hardening images—and will drive gap resolution, ownership models, and cross-team alignment for reliable delivery.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of proven experience building automated verification suites at scale.
• 5+ years experience working in NixOS environments, declarative package management, and virtualization environments is highly required

Responsibilities

• Embed yourself with the engineering leads of every business line shipping tactical devices.
• Develop and execute on a long term roadmap for supported compute platforms used throughout Anduril devices.
• Run a continuous gap triage; resolve gaps by building, assigning, declining, or deferring.
• Define the device baseline: OS and Jetpack, product-security components, and provisioning and key management; drive delivery.
• Reclaim orphaned platform code; deprecate homegrown primitives in favor of standard third-party libraries; reduce dependency count.
• Decide on ownership for baseline closure definitions.
• Integrate with Security to ensure devices are secure by default and provisioning is straightforward.
• Tackle unglamorous correctness work and raise standards for other teams.
• Support HITL as a product and model for new device OS products.
• Collaborate with other platform capabilities to build future device management at scale.

Skills

Embedded/edge systems

Nix/NixOS

System security focus

Technical leadership

Product-team communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

NixOS tooling

Job description

Anduril Industries seeks a Principal Engineer for its Software Platform Foundations team to define and ensure a robust, scalable platform capable of shipping devices across multiple product lines.

You will be the senior technical voice for platform consumers—engineers integrating Lattice, flashing boards, and hardening images—and will drive gap resolution, ownership models, and cross-team alignment for reliable delivery.