Undersea Autonomy Software Engineer — Field Debugging

Anduril-1; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 166,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Mission Software Engineer for Undersea Reconnaissance & Strike. You will fix real bugs in the live codebase, reproduce field anomalies, and verify fixes in hardware-in-the-loop systems. You’ll work across subsystems, write tests, and document root causes.

Expect 25% travel and hands-on work near hardware and sensors, in a fast-paced defense environment. The role requires strong debugging instincts, experience with Rust or C++ and other languages, and comfort with

Qualifications

• Real experience debugging code under time pressure with incomplete information.
• At least two of Rust, modern C++, Python, Go to read and fix bugs.
• Systems-debugging instincts: pull logs and metrics, reconstruct what happened.

Responsibilities

• Take field-reported anomaly and figure out the actual subsystem.
• Reproduce it for real and replay recorded data through the live pipeline.
• Use per-service metrics and centralized logs to reconstruct system state.
• Confirm the fix in hardware-in-the-loop before deployment.
• Write fixes in the subsystem language with tests and CI.
• Identify whether the problem is a bug, bad config, or deployment mismatch.

Skills

Rust

C++

Python

Go

Linux

Observability

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Loki

ELK

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking a Mission Software Engineer for Undersea Reconnaissance & Strike. You will fix real bugs in the live codebase, reproduce field anomalies, and verify fixes in hardware-in-the-loop systems. You’ll work across subsystems, write tests, and document root causes.

Expect 25% travel and hands-on work near hardware and sensors, in a fast-paced defense environment. The role requires strong debugging instincts, experience with Rust or C++ and other languages, and comfort with