Staff Software Engineer

Anduril; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 220,000 - 292,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Anduril Industries in Irvine, CA, is seeking an experienced Software Engineering Lead for the Air Defense Engineering Team. You will own the operating cadence of a large software group, drive sprint delivery, and coordinate across product, engineering, and mission success to ship autonomous defense technologies.

You will mentor engineers, scale leadership, and partner with senior engineers to align roadmaps with program goals while ensuring high-quality software releases.

Qualifications

• Extensive software engineering or lead experience with cross-team collaboration.
• Strong knowledge of C++, Rust, Python, and Go.
• Experience with Agile methods and Jira/Confluence tools.
• Ability to own and drive sprint execution and Jira boards.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills.
• Experience running projects with minimal oversight.
• Eligible for U.S. security clearance and travel up to 30–50%.

Responsibilities

• Lead software sprints and drive release readiness across multiple sprint teams.
• Manage development and deployment of major, minor, and patch releases for multiple products.
• Mentor a small team of engineers to build strong processes and future leaders.
• Collaborate with internal and external partners to enable autonomous systems development and deployment.
• Drive cross-team software projects and instill efficient workflows.
• Partner with engineering leaders to align roadmaps and staffing with goals.
• Define processes for communicating program status across groups.
• Help define the roadmap for the Air Defense Software team.

Skills

C++

Rust

Python

Golang

Agile methodologies

Team leadership

Communication

Project management

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Jira

Confluence

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 Air Defense team builds robots that find other robots and knock them out of the sky. At a time when air superiority can no longer be taken for granted, the Air Defense Team provides mission critical capabilities to warfighters. From detection to tracking, identification, deterrence, and defeat, our family of networked sensors and effectors enables our customers to rapidly close the kill chain against a broad range of Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) threats. Working across product, engineering, sales, logistics, operations, and mission success, the Air Defense team develops, tests, deploys, and sustains the Anduril Air Defense Family of Systems (FoS) in challenging operational environments worldwide.

ABOUT THE JOB

As a Software Engineering Lead on the Air Defense Engineering Team you’ll own efforts to ensure that the Air Defense Software Team is operating effectively and efficiently. You will be owning the operational aspects of a large software engineering team and partnering with engineering leads to optimize and scale team output, and ensure overall execution towards business goals.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Lead software sprints and drive release readiness while maintaining code quality across multiple sprint teams within the division.
• Manage the development and deployment of major, minor, and patch releases for multiple products and programs.
• Mentor a small team of engineers to foster strong development processes and practices as well as scale future leaders.
• Collaborate with internal team members and external partners to build technologies and processes which enable users to safely and rapidly develop and deploy autonomous systems.
• Manage, unblock, and accelerate cross-team software projects spanning multiple functional teams and cross-functional initiatives. Instill an efficient project management mindset and workflow across the teams.
• Partner deeply with engineering leaders to drive successful program execution and team velocity across groups of software teams and more broadly across departments. Be an effective proxy in program and organizational matters to help engineering leads scale.
• Drive, track, and communicate the progress of technical deliverables for the team or group’s key programs. Define efficient processes for communicating group program status more broadly.
• Help to define the roadmap for the Air Defense Software team while working with partner engineering teams to ensure that the organization’s technical roadmap is well understood and that programs and staffing are aligned with the roadmap.
• Identify and resolve systemic execution issues across the team or group that require broader initiatives to resolve.
• Identify, resolve, and elevate key cross team dependencies.
• Understand technical implementation at the architectural level and propose technical alternatives when necessary; ask questions that clarify priorities.

CORE REQUIREMENTS:

• Strong engineering background preferably as a Software Engineer and/or Lead/Manager.
• Experience with multiple programming languages such as C++, Rust, Python, and Golang.
• Solid technical aptitude and an ability to understand technical designs, software development lifecycle, challenges and risks; ability to work closely and effectively with engineering teams.
• Extensive experience with Agile methods and tools such as Jira and Confluence.
• Ability to own, track, and drive execution of sprints and Jira boards.
• Strong process and organization skills
• Strong written / verbal communication skills
• Ability to describe and figure out the shape of a problem and work through a solution
• Experience running projects and processes with little oversight; can unblock themselves
• Highly developed analytical and communication skills
• High grit, proactive, and enthusiastic
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. security clearance
• Must be able to travel up to 30-50% of the time

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience in building programs for software deliverables from ground up
• Ability to work within organizations with minimal structure and with minimal direction
• Experience is rolling out potentially disruptive organizational process changes
• Experience with creating communication plans for various levels of stakeholders
• Strong technical, analytical and quantitative skills with the ability to use data and metrics to back up assumptions, recommendations and drive decisions
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or an Engineering discipline

US Salary Range
$220,000 — $292,000 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:

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.