Software Engineer - Ground-Based Air Defense Systems

Anduril Industries, Inc.; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 167,000 - 222,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Competitive benefits

Job summary

Anduril Industries in Irvine, CA is seeking a Software Engineer to own the software for Air Defense tower variants, integrating radar and infrared camera services, and migrating configurations onto a modern platform.

You’ll work across radar, camera services, networking, build systems, and field tooling, with travel ~10% to test sites and manufacturing floors. This role emphasizes breadth over deep specialization.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional software engineering building and shipping real systems.
• Proficiency in Rust or C++, with ability to work across an existing codebase you didn’t write.
• Solid Linux systems fundamentals: the command line, systemd, networking basics, and log-driven debugging.
• Practical experience integrating software with hardware, whether sensors, embedded devices, or instrumentation, and comfort working on a bench with real equipment.
• Demonstrated ability to own a piece of a larger system end to end, including the unglamorous parts: configuration, deployment, testing, and support.
• Clear written communication, since you’ll be the interface between a program’s requirements and the team’s implementation.
• US person status required, with eligibility to obtain and maintain a US security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Own the software configuration for the Air Defense tower variants: product definitions, payload and sensor configuration, networking, and image builds in our declarative platform.
• Integrate and support the variants' sensor payloads, particularly radar and infrared camera services, including the configuration and behavior differences that separate them from our perimeter security products.
• Develop features driven by Air Defense program requirements, working from program needs through design, implementation, and delivery into a shipping product.
• Migrate the variants' legacy configuration onto our modern platform base, replacing product-specific one-offs with the common, composable modules the rest of the fleet uses.
• Own the variants' software update and deployment path, and the manufacturing test configuration that validates units as they're built.
• Support the product in the field and on the line: triage issues, reproduce and root-cause them, fix what's yours, and drive what isn't with the owning team.
• Work with the Air Defense program's engineers and stakeholders to keep requirements, schedule, and technical reality aligned.

Skills

Rust or C++

Linux fundamentals

Hardware integration

End-to-end ownership

Clear written communication

US person status

Job description

Anduril Industries in Irvine, CA is seeking a Software Engineer to own the software for Air Defense tower variants, integrating radar and infrared camera services, and migrating configurations onto a modern platform.

You’ll work across radar, camera services, networking, build systems, and field tooling, with travel ~10% to test sites and manufacturing floors. This role emphasizes breadth over deep specialization.