Staff Software Engineer

Anduril Industries; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 220,000 - 292,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity grants

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Anduril Industries in Costa Mesa, California is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to enhance ArsenalOS, the backbone of their hardware enterprise. This role involves architecting distributed systems that orchestrate production operations, ensuring scalability and efficiency in manufacturing workflows.

The ideal candidate will have over 12 years of experience, strong full-stack capabilities, and proven skills in modern web technologies such as JavaScript, TypeScript, and React. Additionally, they’ll be directly influencing technical direction across teams and promoting engineering excellence.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in a software engineering role building products in fast-paced environments.
• Proven ability to influence technical direction and drive architectural consensus.
• Experience with large enterprise applications and high availability requirements.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive technical architecture for Manufacturing Production Solutions.
• Architect and implement complex distributed systems for manufacturing workflows.
• Collaborate with product and platform teams to shape shared infrastructure.

Skills

Software engineering

JavaScript

TypeScript

React

Systems thinking

Communication

Tools

AWS

Next.js

Remix

Job description

About the Team

ArsenalOS is the digital backbone of Anduril’s hardware enterprise. It connects the full lifecycle, from concept to build to field feedback, into one operating environment built for speed, traceability, autonomy, and continuous improvement. The environment includes the software used to design, plan, execute work, and the factory-facing infrastructure that connects operators, machines, test systems, and OT networks into the same adaptive Build Chain.

About the Job

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join ArsenalOS, the digital backbone of Anduril's hardware enterprise from design to sustainment. You will architect distributed systems within our Manufacturing (Production Solutions) team in Forge MES that orchestrate production operations—work order management, scheduling, material flow, and capacity planning—creating adaptive, software‑defined production networks.

What You’ll Do

• Define and drive technical architecture for Manufacturing Production Solutions – decide on system design, scalability patterns, integration strategies, and platform vs. build tradeoffs that shape team execution.
• Architect and implement complex distributed systems – build mission‑critical services, APIs, and tooling that enable safe, fast delivery across manufacturing production workflows (work orders, scheduling, material tracking, capacity planning).
• Lead by example with engineering excellence – establish patterns through hands‑on work: comprehensive testing, deployment safety (blue/green/canary), infrastructure as code, observability, and operational rigor.

Cross‑Team Influence & Collaboration

• Bridge product and platform teams – collaborate with Platform/Foundations to shape shared infrastructure based on Manufacturing needs while driving adoption of platform capabilities.
• Partner across MES product teams – integrate Manufacturing Production Solutions into cohesive manufacturing experiences, evolve data models across production/quality/supply chain domains, and drive technical consensus on cross‑cutting concerns.
• Represent manufacturing domain technically – work with architecture, security, operations, and infrastructure teams to ensure production operations requirements influence broader technical decisions.

Team & Technical Standards

• Raise the technical bar for the team – through rigorous code review, architecture discussions, establishing shared ownership models, and improving practices that balance velocity with correctness.
• Remove friction and unblock execution – identify systemic technical issues, eliminate single points of failure, and create leverage through automation and improved tooling.

Required Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in a software engineering role building products in fast‑paced environments.
• Proven ability to influence technical direction across teams – drive architectural consensus, build alignment, and lead technical initiatives beyond a single team.
• Experience working with large enterprise applications and platforms with high availability requirements.
• Strong full‑stack capabilities with expertise in modern web technologies – JavaScript/TypeScript, React, and web frameworks (Next.js, Remix, etc.).
• Systems thinking and domain translation – ability to understand manufacturing operations requirements and design scalable technical architectures that enable production workflows at enterprise scale.
• Excellent communication skills, able to influence stakeholders, translate ambiguous manufacturing requirements, and build cross‑team alignment.
• U.S. Person status is required as this position needs to access export‑controlled data.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with AWS, TypeScript, and React/Remix, as our tech stack uses these tools.
• Experience in hyper‑growth startup‑like environments – success in scaling and maturing software development processes, team culture, and methods, balancing short‑term and long‑term trade‑offs.
• Manufacturing operations domain knowledge – experience with MES, ERP, production scheduling systems, work order management, or supply chain management platforms.
• Experience in defense, autonomy, robotics, or mission‑critical systems (helpful but not required).
• Experience with AI/LLM integration – leveraging state‑of‑the‑art models and agentic tooling in production software development.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. TS/SCI clearance.

US Salary Range

$220,000—$292,000 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 comprehensive, competitive benefits available at little to no cost to employees. For more information, explore our benefits.