Senior Robotics & Autonomy Engineer - Thunder Systems

Telemetry Today LLC; Costa Mesa, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 220,000 - 292,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries seeks a Senior Robotics Software Engineer to join the Thunder team at its Costa Mesa headquarters. You will tackle varied problems spanning networking, autonomy, systems integration, and robotics, delivering pragmatic engineering solutions that scale across customers.

Expect to work on critical software with real-world impact, requiring strong systems-level knowledge, collaboration, and a “Whatever It Takes” mindset. Travel up to 25% is required for testing and demonstrations.

Qualifications

• Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics or Physics.
• 7+ years of professional industry experience with C++ or Rust.
• Experience building software solutions involving significant data processing and analysis.
• Ability to quickly understand and navigate complex systems and established code bases.
• Desire to work on critical software with real-world impact.
• Willing to travel up to 25% for testing and demonstrations.
• Active Secret Clearance Required.

Responsibilities

• Own the mission autonomy systems and services 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 UX with engineering constraints.
• Travel up to 25% for testing and demonstrations.

Skills

C++

Rust

Data processing

Systems understanding

Job description

Anduril Industries seeks a Senior Robotics Software Engineer to join the Thunder team at its Costa Mesa headquarters. You will tackle varied problems spanning networking, autonomy, systems integration, and robotics, delivering pragmatic engineering solutions that scale across customers.

Expect to work on critical software with real-world impact, requiring strong systems-level knowledge, collaboration, and a “Whatever It Takes” mindset. Travel up to 25% is required for testing and demonstrations.