Senior Software Engineer - Maritime Autonomy & Mission Planning

Anduril Industries; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 220,000 - 292,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a senior software leader for its Maritime Division to own the software that enables a maritime autonomous vehicle to sense, decide, and act. Reporting to the Mission Systems Lead, you will work across perception, planning, and runtime execution to deliver reliable autonomous capability.

The role emphasizes cross-functional leadership, rapid delivery, and validation of designs through testing at Arsenal-2 in Maryland and the Proto-Factory in Orange County, CA.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in autonomous systems software, robotics, perception, or real-time systems.
• Experience building software for field-deployed autonomous systems.
• Depth in at least one of perception, mission planning, or runtime mission execution, with working knowledge of the others.
• Proficiency in real-time software development with stringent timing requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to handle complex state management in production systems.
• Ability to translate operational mission requirements into software requirements.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret security clearance.
• Ability to receive, process, and disposition encrypted data

Responsibilities

• Design and implement sensor processing pipelines for sonar, radar, and EO/IR.
• Build object detection and classification algorithms for maritime environments.
• Develop multi-target tracking systems for real-time situational awareness.
• Integrate platform position and attitude into the context of mission requirements.
• Design and implement mission objective decomposition algorithms.
• Build resource allocation and constraint satisfaction systems for mission planning.
• Develop operator-facing planning interfaces for autonomous maritime missions.
• Design and implement behavior execution software for autonomous maritime missions.
• Build real-time decision-making systems for mission execution.
• Develop contingency handling and failure response logic.
• Manage mission state across complex, multi-phase autonomous operations.
• Integrate mission systems with platform control, perception, and vehicle systems.
• Characterize and improve performance across perception, planning, and execution against operational requirements.
• Support testing and field deployment of mission capabilities.

Skills

Autonomous systems

Field-deployed software

Multidisciplinary experience

Real-time software

State management

Requirements translation

Security clearance

Encrypted data handling

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking a senior software leader for its Maritime Division to own the software that enables a maritime autonomous vehicle to sense, decide, and act. Reporting to the Mission Systems Lead, you will work across perception, planning, and runtime execution to deliver reliable autonomous capability.

The role emphasizes cross-functional leadership, rapid delivery, and validation of designs through testing at Arsenal-2 in Maryland and the Proto-Factory in Orange County, CA.