Senior Software Engineer — Greenfield AI Platform

Anduril Industries; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 191,000 - 253,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Comprehensive benefits

Health & wellness

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build new products for high-priority operational needs. This greenfield role moves quickly from ambiguous problems to working software, partnering with a product manager to shape scope and deliver measurable value.

You will work with customers to understand problems, use modern web tech to deliver, and balance speed with reliability while applying frontier AI tooling to prototype and iterate.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience shipping products.
• Experience bringing a software product or feature from concept to production.
• Deep expertise across backend, frontend, or systems integration.
• Proficiency with JavaScript, React, TypeScript, and Next.js.
• Experience partnering with product management, design and users.
• Strong judgment balancing speed, value, quality and maintainability.
• Ability to work autonomously on high-visibility work.
• BS in CS/IS/EE or equivalent practical experience.
• U.S. Person status required to access export-controlled data.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical delivery of greenfield applications from concept through production launch and iteration.
• Partner with a product manager as a product-engineering pair to shape scope and success measures.
• Work directly with customers and end users to understand operational problems and gather feedback.
• Build high-quality full-stack product experiences using modern web technologies.
• Make pragmatic architecture decisions balancing speed with reliability and scale.
• Break initiatives into testable increments and ship useful software early.
• Communicate progress, risks, and results to stakeholders clearly.
• Use frontier AI tooling to accelerate prototyping, testing, and iteration.
• Raise the engineering bar by improving reusable patterns and foundations.

Skills

Full-stack web development

JavaScript

React

TypeScript

Next.js

Product collaboration

Autonomy

Education

CS or related technical field degree

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build new products for high-priority operational needs. This greenfield role moves quickly from ambiguous problems to working software, partnering with a product manager to shape scope and deliver measurable value.

You will work with customers to understand problems, use modern web tech to deliver, and balance speed with reliability while applying frontier AI tooling to prototype and iterate.