Software Engineer, Strategic Defense

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

Job summary

Anduril Industries seeks a Software Engineer to solve problems across networking, autonomy, systems integration, robotics, and more, delivering scalable mission software powering real-world capabilities.

You will own deployments, write code to scale capabilities, and collaborate across teams to plan, build, and test complex features, with up to 50% travel to Asia Pacific.

Qualifications

• Willingness to travel up to 50% to Asia Pacific.
• Fluent Mandarin language skills.
• Strong engineering background from industry or school (CS/SE/Math/Physics).
• Experience with Go, Rust, or Python.
• Experience with frontend frameworks such as React or Angular.
• Experience building data-intensive software solutions.
• Ability to quickly understand and navigate complex systems and code bases.
• Desire to work on mission-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 coordinate next steps.
• Partner with end-users to turn needs into features while balancing UX and engineering constraints.
• Travel up to 50% to build, test, and deploy capabilities in the real world.

Skills

Mandarin fluency

Go/Rust/Python

Frontend frameworks

Data processing & analytics

Navigate complex systems

Mission-critical software

Education

CS/SE/Math/Physics degree

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

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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