Software Engineer, Strategic Defense

Anduril-1; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 166,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Comprehensive benefits package

Health & recovery support

Job summary

Anduril is seeking a Software Engineer to solve challenging problems across networking, autonomy, systems integration, and robotics. You will own software deployed to customers, design and implement features, and collaborate with multiple teams to deliver robust, scalable solutions.

The role involves traveling up to 50% to Asia Pacific and working to turn user needs into practical features while ensuring high quality and timely delivery.

Qualifications

• Travel up to 50% to Asia Pacific for deployment and field work.
• Strong engineering background in CS/SE/Math/Physics.
• Experience with Go, Rust, or Python and frontend frameworks (React/Angular).
• Experience building data-intensive software systems.
• Ability to understand complex codebases quickly.

Responsibilities

• Own the software solutions deployed to customers.
• Write code to improve products and scale capabilities.
• Collaborate across teams to plan, build, and test features.
• Create metrics for debugging and monitoring.
• Triage issues and coordinate next steps.
• Partner with end-users to translate needs into features while balancing UX and constraints.
• Travel up to 50% to build and deploy capabilities in the real world.

Skills

Go/Rust/Python programming

React/Angular frontend

Data processing & analysis

Travel up to 50%

System navigation

Job description

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
• 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

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. Explore Our Benefits.