Software Engineer, Strategic Defense

Anduril Industries; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 166,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Software Engineer to tackle networking, autonomy, systems integration, and robotics. You will own customer deployments and write scalable code, collaborating across teams to deliver complex features with measurable impact.

The role emphasizes pragmatic engineering, data-driven decision making, and travel up to 50% to validate capabilities in real-world environments.

Qualifications

• Fluent Mandarin language skills and willingness to travel up to 50% to Asia Pacific.
• Strong engineering background from industry or school (CS/Software Eng/Math/Physics).
• Experience with Go, Rust, or Python.
• Experience with frontend frameworks such as React or Angular.
• Experience building software with significant data processing and analysis.
• Ability to understand and navigate complex systems and code bases.
• 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, test complex functionality.
• Create and analyze metrics for debugging and monitoring.
• Triage issues, root cause analysis, and coordinate next steps.
• Partner with end-users to translate needs into features while balancing UX and constraints.
• Travel up to 50% to build, test, and deploy capabilities in the real world.

Skills

Mandarin fluency

Go

Rust

Python

Data processing

Systems comprehension

Education

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

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 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 50% to Asia Pacific
• Fluent Mandarin language skills
• 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

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:

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.

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By submitting your application, you consent to Anduril Industries using a third-party service provider to conduct pre-employment risk, integrity, and due diligence screening and assessing potential risks as part of your application process. This third-party service provider provides risk-intelligence services that may include analysis of sanctions and watchlists, adverse media, public-record information, and other lawful open-source or commercial data sources. This third-party service provider does not act as a consumer reporting agency. Use of this provider helps to ensure compliance with applicable laws and protect technology, intellectual property, and organizational security.