Staff Software Engineer, Maritime Enabling Technology

AI Chopping Block; Quincy, Northern (MA, KY); Hybrid; USD 220,000 - 292,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Top-tier benefits

Competitive compensation package

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for its Maritime Division to lead the delivery of diverse software integrated into autonomous systems. You will act as technical lead and hands‑on contributor across autonomy, simulation, data processing, payload integration, and off‑board control, shaping end‑to‑end platform evolution.

Ideal candidates have senior leadership experience in tech, strong system design skills, and be eligible for U.S.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent experience.
• Experience in a leadership position within a high performing technology organization.
• Extensive professional experience as a Software Engineer with multiple domains/technologies.
• Strong knowledge of algorithms, data structures, concurrency, testing, infrastructure and system design.
• Experience troubleshooting and analyzing remotely deployed software systems.
• Ability to own an entire software system with stakeholder engagement and lifecycle evolution.
• Capability to mentor senior team members and grow the team.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Own customer success through a multi‑year, multi‑stakeholder software roadmap.
• Rapidly deliver capability beyond current platforms with architectural evolution.
• Interface with external teams for diverse system integrations.
• Lead architecture and design for robotic systems including hardware and compute.
• Contribute to a company‑wide roadmap for software inputs to autonomous systems.
• Lead teams developing software that runs on‑ and off‑platform across technologies.
• Act as SMO for software engineering in a multi‑stakeholder environment.
• Drive development processes and full lifecycle testing.
• Develop test and simulation fixtures with software‑and hardware‑in‑the‑loop.
• Support vehicle manufacturing and deployment.
• Mentor multi‑disciplinary engineers and support career growth.
• Travel to co‑locate with end‑users up to 20% of the time.

Skills

Leadership

Software engineering

C++

Rust

Go

Data structures

Concurrency

System design

Embedded software

Cloud technologies

Debugging

Security clearance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Engineering

Equivalent experience

Tools

ROS

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

CI/CD

Job description

ABOUT THE TEAM

Anduril’s Maritime Division has assembled a diverse team of experts in software, robotics, artificial intelligence, sensor fusion, and data analysis to create software and hardware solutions that radically evolve the capabilities of our customers. We are fielding the next generation of autonomous systems to tackle the extremely challenging industry demands of maritime operations. Anduril has brought to market a unique, ultra-long-range, full-ocean-depth underwater vessel platform and a completely refreshed maritime vehicle and flexible manufacturing architecture that scales from "small" to "extra-large" vehicle sizes. Today, Anduril is executing on billion-dollar contracts while simultaneously performing Robot-as-a-Service (RaaS) AUV operations.

We are seeking to sustain our early successes with deep investment in an expanded product portfolio. These products, including Dive-XL, Dive-LD, Copperhead, Seabed Sentry, and other unannounced systems, will deliver a coherent system-of-systems, enabling the end-to-end conduct of a variety of autonomous missions in the maritime domain. If you are passionate about solving problems that have real impact and working on systems that directly contribute to achieving national strategic priorities, we want you to join Anduril’s Maritime Division and help us build the future of defense capability.

ABOUT THE JOB

Staff Software Engineers lead the delivery of a variety of software integrated in to our products, acting as technical leads, extremely senior individual contributors, and/or as team leads that are also hands‑on contributors. This includes autonomy, simulation, data processing, payload integration, and off‑board command and control and decision support. We expect Staff Software Engineers to demonstrate unparalleled end‑to‑end outcome ownership, driving the rapid architecting, design, delivery, support, and evolution of next generation autonomous platforms through their entire product life‑cycle.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Own customer success through the design and delivery of a multi‑year, multi‑stakeholder software roadmap that spans across multiple teams.
• Leverage internal product and program‑specific engineering teams to rapidly deliver capability beyond the scope of current platforms, with a clear path for both architecture and capability evolution over time
• Partner with external teams, collaborating on interfacing requirements between diverse systems and technologies
• Drive architecture selection and design for robotic systems, including hardware selection, compute, storage and network architecture, service orchestration and other software platform concerns that balance constraints, restrictions and requirements in a multi‑stakeholder environment
• Contribute to the design and development of a company wide roadmap for software inputs to autonomous systems
• Lead teams that develop software that runs on‑and off‑platform, using a variety of technologies
• Act as a subject matter expert for software engineering, representing software equities in a multi‑stakeholder environment including engineering, business and sales leadership.
• Drive the design and implementation of development processes for the initial delivery and subsequent iteration of software, including full lifecycle testing
• Drive the creation of test and simulation fixtures that operate with both software‑and hardware‑in‑the‑loop
• Support vehicle manufacturing and deployment
• Lead teams of multi‑disciplinary engineers, including as a mentor for Senior Software Engineers from differing backgrounds
• Travel to co‑locate with end‑users and/or other teams up to 20% of the time

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Engineering, a relevant field, or equivalent experience
• Experience in a leadership position within a high performing technology organization
• Extensive professional experience working as a Software Engineer with one or more domains and/or technologies of expertise
• Systems and/or application programming skills including algorithms, data structures, concurrency, scaling, testing, infrastructure, software design and system design
• Experience troubleshooting and analyzing remotely deployed software systems
• Capacity to work holistically on software enabled capabilities up and down the software stack and through lifecycle through design, implementation, operation and sustainment
• Capacity to act as the technical owner for an entire software system, including stakeholder engagement, requirements definition, roadmap management, team co‑ordination, design, implementation, sustainment and evolution
• Capacity to learn and grow individually, while mentoring senior team members effectively, building team cohesion and capacity
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience in a senior role for the delivery of a military mission system
• Experience writing backend services or embedded software in C++, Rust and/or Go
• Experience writing frontend applications using Typescript and React
• Experience with the design, implementation and operation of horizontally scaled cloud technologies
• Experience with the design, implementation and support of embedded software, particularly in the field of robotics
• Experience with modeling and simulation
• Experience with development of high assurance safety critical software
• Experience within the product delivery lifecycle including manufacturing, system acceptance, deployment, and sustainment.
• Familiarity with Systems Engineering concepts
• Desire to learn and grow in to other roles that require experience as a Staff Software Engineer, such as Principal Software Engineer and/or Senior Manager, Software Engineering
• Desire to grow in to a Tech‑Lead‑Manager role, with responsibility for line management of engineers, in addition to delivery

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.

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