Software Engineer, Strategic Defense

Mosaic.tech; California (MO); On-site; USD 166,000 - 220,000; Full time

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Benefits package

Job summary

Anduril Industries in the United States seeks a Software Engineer to tackle networking, autonomy, and systems integration challenges across mission software. You will drive scalable, high‑quality solutions that operate in real‑world environments and collaborate with AI, Edge Hardware, Space Solutions, Networking, and Test Engineering teams.

We value engineers who can navigate complex systems, deliver tangible outcomes, and travel when needed to deploy capabilities with end users.

Qualifications

• Willingness to travel up to 20% to Asia Pacific.
• Strong engineering background in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics or Physics.
• Experience with Go, Rust, or Python.
• Experience with frontend frameworks such as React or Angular.
• Experience building data-intensive software and navigating complex systems.
• Desire to work on critical software with real-world impact.

Responsibilities

• Own the software solutions 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, root cause analysis, and next-step coordination.
• Partner with end-users to translate needs into features while balancing UX and engineering constraints.
• Travel up to 50% to build, test, and deploy capabilities in real world.

Skills

Go

Rust

Python

Tools

React

Angular

Job description

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting‑edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Strategic Defense team at Anduril is at the forefront of incubating and maturing AI‑native offerings for the integrated air and missile defense domain. We're the architects of mission autonomy and resilient mesh architectures, delivering scalable software solutions that meet some of the most urgent national security needs. By working hand‑in‑hand with elite teams in AI, Edge Hardware, Space Solutions, Networking, and Test Engineering we craft cutting‑edge, end‑to‑end systems that redefine mission success for major strategic capabilities.

ABOUT THE JOB

As a Software Engineer, you will solve a wide variety of problems involving networking, autonomy, systems integration, robotics, and more, while making pragmatic engineering tradeoffs along the way. Your efforts will ensure that Anduril products seamlessly work together to achieve a variety of critical outcomes. Above all, Mission Software Engineers are driven by a “Whatever It Takes” mindset—executing in an expedient, scalable, and pragmatic way while keeping the mission top‑of‑mind and making sound engineering decisions to deliver successful outcomes correctly, on‑time, and with high quality.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Own the software solutions that are deployed to customers.
• Write code to improve products and scale the mission capability to more customers.
• Collaborate across multiple teams to plan, build, and test complex functionality.
• Create and analyze metrics that are 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 user experience with engineering constraints.
• Travel up to 50% of the time to build, test, and deploy capabilities in the real world.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Must be willing to travel up to 20% to Asia Pacific.
• Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in areas/fields such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics.
• Experience working with a variety of programming languages such as Go, Rust, or Python.
• Experience working with frontend frameworks such as React or Angular.
• Experience building software solutions involving significant amounts of data processing and analysis.
• Ability to quickly understand and navigate complex systems and established code bases.
• A desire to work on critical software that has a real‑world impact.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 4+ years of professional industry experience working.
• Developing software/hardware for safety critical functionality.
• Distributed communication networks and message standards.

US Salary Range: $166,000 — $220,000 USD

Benefits

At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next. For more information, Explore Our Benefits.