Senior Robotics Software Engineer: Autonomous Flight

Frontdoor Defense; Costa Mesa (CA); Hybrid; USD 220,000 - 290,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries, Costa Mesa HQ, leads the Omen Team to develop autonomous mission software for the Omen air vehicle. The Senior Robotics Software Engineer will tackle networking, autonomy, and perception challenges, delivering robust, scalable solutions with pragmatic tradeoffs.

Join a mission-driven team focused on impactful software for real-world defense applications, with opportunities to travel and obtain a U.S. security clearance as required.

Qualifications

• Strong engineering background from industry or school in CS, software, math, or physics.
• Experience with large data processing and analysis.
• Ability to navigate complex systems and code bases.
• Willingness to travel up to 25% for testing and demos.
• Eligible to obtain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Own mission autonomy systems and services deployed to customers.
• Write code to improve products and scale mission capability.
• Collaborate across teams to plan, build, and test complex functionality.
• Create and analyze metrics for debugging and monitoring.
• Triage issues and coordinate next steps.
• Partner with end-users to turn needs into features while balancing UX and constraints.
• Travel up to 25% for real-world testing and deployments.

Skills

Systems thinking

Data processing

Travel readiness

Security clearance eligible

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Software/Math/Physics

Tools

C++

Rust

Job description

Anduril Industries, Costa Mesa HQ, leads the Omen Team to develop autonomous mission software for the Omen air vehicle. The Senior Robotics Software Engineer will tackle networking, autonomy, and perception challenges, delivering robust, scalable solutions with pragmatic tradeoffs.

Join a mission-driven team focused on impactful software for real-world defense applications, with opportunities to travel and obtain a U.S. security clearance as required.