Staff Software Engineer, Production Solutions

Anduril; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 190,000 - 252,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive equity grants

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

Slope is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to architect distributed systems within the Manufacturing team. This role will significantly impact production operations by enabling adaptive, software-defined production networks. The ideal candidate will have over 12 years of experience and must excel in modern web technologies like JavaScript and React.

The position offers an exciting opportunity to bridge manufacturing and platform teams, ensuring production requirements influence broader architectural decisions. Competitive salary range of $190,000 - $252,000 USD and comprehensive benefits are included.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in a software engineering role in fast-paced environments.
• Proven ability to influence technical direction across teams.
• Experience with large enterprise applications with high availability.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

JavaScript/TypeScript

React

Systems thinking

Excellent communication skills

Tools

AWS

Web frameworks (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. That environment includes not just the software used to design, plan, and execute work, but also the factory-facing infrastructure that connects operators, machines, test systems, and OT networks into the same adaptive Build Chain. It is not a support function, but rather a strategic investment by Anduril that the operating system of the hardware lifecycle is how we win. It will be one of the mechanisms by which Anduril out-builds, out-adapts, and out-scales the traditional defense industrial base.

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'll architect the distributed systems within our Manufacturing (Production Solutions) team in Forge MES (Manufacturing Execution System) that orchestrate Anduril's production operations—work order management, scheduling, material flow, and capacity planning—turning factories into adaptive, software‑defined production networks. This isn't about digitizing existing processes. It's about building the technical foundation that makes Anduril's hardware enterprise more adaptive as it scales, not less.

Your impact will span beyond the immediate team. You'll serve as a technical bridge between Manufacturing and our Platform/Foundations organization, shaping infrastructure that meets production‑scale demands while driving adoption of platform capabilities. You'll represent manufacturing in broader architectural decisions, ensuring production requirements influence the systems that connect design changes to shop floor execution. Your decisions will determine whether Anduril can absorb more manufacturing complexity without slowing down—and whether we out-build the traditional defense industrial base.

What You'll Do

Technical Architecture & Execution:

• Define and drive technical architecture for Manufacturing Production Solutions - make decisions 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

• We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply but our tech stack uses AWS, Typescript, and React/Remix so familiarity with all of these tools will be particularly helpful
• Experience in hyper‑growth startup‑like environments. Demonstrated successes in scaling and maturing software development processes, team culture and methods, and ability to balance short‑term and long‑term trade‑offs
• Manufacturing operations domain knowledge - experience with manufacturing execution systems (MES), enterprise resource planning (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

$190,000 - $252,000 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. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full‑time offers; and are considered part of Anduril’s total compensation package.