Anduril
Defense · Defense
- HQ
- Costa Mesa, US
- Founded
- 2017
- Size
- 5,000+
- Funding
- Series G
- Website
- anduril.com
Products
Defense · Defense
Anduril is currently hiring for 163 AI-related roles. The majority of these positions, 64%, are focused on agents, with application roles making up another 28%. The company is primarily seeking candidates for Engineering functions, with a smaller number of roles in Research and Product. Anduril's hiring for these AI positions is concentrated in the United States, with additional roles available in Australia and the United Kingdom. Frequent tech tags include agent_orchestration, multi_agent, and model_serving, suggesting a focus on complex AI systems. Over the last 30 days, Anduril has added 39 new AI roles, representing a 26% increase compared to the previous 30-day period.
Currently tracking 135 active AI roles, up 19% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $86k–$444k (avg $209k).
Anduril currently has 177 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Senior Software Engineer (6), Software Engineer (6), Research Scientist (5), Robotics Engineer, Maritime (3), Senior Manager, Software Engineering (3). Most positions are in Engineering and Research.
Anduril's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (64%), application (27%), post-training (5%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Anduril is hiring AI talent in: United States (157 roles), Australia (17 roles), United Kingdom (3 roles).
Job postings at Anduril most frequently reference: agent orchestration, multi agent, model serving, embodied ai, evals.
In the past 30 days, Anduril has posted 54 new AI-related roles. That is a +50% change versus the prior 30 days (36 → 54).
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Field Test Engineer, Maritime The Field Test Engineer, Maritime role at Anduril focuses on testing and advancing subsea robotics and AI-powered systems for defense applications. This involves working with autonomy, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technologies within a dynamic, collaborative environment. | Ship | 5 |
| Vehicle Systems Lead Lead the technical development and integration of vehicle systems for a maritime product, from concept through delivery, for a defense technology company. This role involves technical leadership, cross-functional team management, and driving projects through prototype, testing, and production. | — | 5 |
| Senior Technical Program Manager, R&D - Active Clearance The Senior Technical Program Manager, R&D will manage new technology development initiatives within the Internal Research and Development (IRAD) portfolio for the Autonomous Airpower Business Line. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams, establishing technical KPIs, supporting engineering roadmaps, managing capture programs, and leading early-phase programs. The role requires experience in product/program management for robotics systems and a strong understanding of technical tradeoffs, with a focus on defense technology and military capabilities. |
| — |
| 5 |
| Staff Technical Program Manager, Air Dominance & Strike, Autonomous Airpower - Active Clearance The Staff Technical Program Manager will lead the development and integration of Anduril's Air Dominance & Strike technologies, managing programs across the contract lifecycle from R&D to capture and close. This role requires a systems and engineering mindset, execution focus, and collaborative partnership with government customers. Responsibilities include owning development and deployment, managing customer relationships, executing on requirements, monitoring program progress (cost, schedule, resources), developing processes, fostering team culture, and collaborating with finance and senior management on strategy. | — | 5 |
| Senior Technical Program Manager, Air Dominance & Strike, Autonomous Airpower - Active Clearance The Senior Technical Program Manager will lead the development and deployment of Anduril's Air Dominance & Strike technologies, managing programs across the contract lifecycle from R&D to capture and close. This role requires a systems and engineering mindset, execution focus, and collaborative partnership with customers and internal teams to ensure successful delivery of cost and schedule objectives for autonomous weapons and combat aircraft. | — | 5 |
| Senior Technical Program Manager, Advanced Effects This role is for a Senior Technical Program Manager at Anduril, a defense technology company. The focus is on leading the development and deployment of AI-powered systems for military applications, managing programs across the lifecycle, and ensuring successful delivery to the Department of Defense. The role requires strong program management, systems engineering, and customer relationship skills. | — | 5 |
| Staff Technical Program Manager, Advanced Effects The Staff Technical Program Manager, Advanced Effects role at Anduril Industries focuses on leading the development and integration of AI-powered defense technologies, including autonomous weapons and collaborative combat aircraft. The role involves managing programs across the entire lifecycle, from R&D to delivery, with a strong emphasis on cost, schedule, and customer relationships. While the company heavily utilizes AI and related technologies, this specific role is centered on program management and product delivery rather than direct AI/ML model development. | — | 5 |
| Staff Software Safety Engineer Anduril Industries is a defense technology company seeking a Staff Software Safety Engineer to ensure the safety and reliability of software in their AI-powered systems. The role involves guiding software safety program activities, deriving safety requirements, architecting robust safety controls, defining V&V strategies, and managing software hazards and risks. The ideal candidate has a strong background in software engineering for complex, safety-critical systems, experience in regulated industries, and familiarity with AI/ML software safety and autonomous systems testing. | — | 5 |
| Senior Mission Software Engineer, Surface Maritime Anduril Industries is a defense technology company developing AI-powered military systems. This Senior Mission Software Engineer role focuses on delivering software for autonomous platforms, including autonomy, simulation, data processing, and command and control. The role requires end-to-end ownership of complex systems, technical leadership, and contribution to the entire product cycle, from design to sustainment. The position involves developing software for both on- and off-robotic platforms, creating test fixtures, and working within a multi-disciplinary team. Experience with C++, Rust, Go, cloud technologies, embedded software, and high assurance safety-critical software is preferred. The role is based in Costa Mesa, CA, with a salary range of $191,000-$253,000 USD. | — | 5 |
| Senior Site Reliability Engineer Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Anduril Industries, a defense technology company. The role focuses on building and operating infrastructure for digital production systems, including CI/CD pipelines, IaC, containerization, and deployment of ML models. Emphasis on reliability, security, and collaboration with cross-functional teams. The company utilizes an AI-powered operating system called Lattice OS. | Serve | 5 |
| Head of Growth, Imaging Head of Growth for Imaging at Anduril, a defense technology company. This role focuses on building the Imaging business line by developing and executing growth strategies, managing relationships with OEMs, DOD, IC, and international partners, and leading the expansion of the Imaging portfolio. The role involves working with internal stakeholders to identify and fund R&D, manage strategic partners, and deliver on financial performance metrics. Requires deep expertise in imaging technologies and a proven ability to lead and execute tactical and strategic plans in the defense sector. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer, DevOps Senior Software Engineer, DevOps role focused on building and operating infrastructure for digital production systems, including CI/CD pipelines, IaC, containerization, and deployment of ML models across cloud and edge environments. The role emphasizes automation, security, traceability, and reliability. | Serve | 5 |
| Staff Software Engineer, Active Clearance, Air Defense Staff Software Engineer for the Air Defense team at Anduril, focusing on building robots to detect and neutralize airborne threats. The role involves owning software solutions, writing code for product improvement and scaling, collaborating across teams, analyzing metrics, and triaging issues. Requires a strong engineering background, 10+ years of experience with languages like Python/Rust/Go, experience with significant data processing, and an active U.S. Secret clearance. Preferred qualifications include experience with NixOS, multi-agent autonomous systems, behavior trees, flight systems, and military systems. | Agent | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Active Clearance, Air Defense Senior Software Engineer for Anduril's Air Defense team, focusing on building robots to detect and neutralize airborne threats. The role involves owning software solutions, writing code for product improvement and scaling, collaborating across teams, analyzing metrics, and partnering with end-users. Requires a strong engineering background, 7+ years of experience with languages like Python/Rust/Go, experience with significant data processing, and an active US Secret clearance. Preferred qualifications include experience with NixOS, multi-agent autonomous systems, flight systems, and military systems. | Agent | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Active Clearance, Air Defense Software Engineer role focused on building and deploying robotic systems for air defense, involving networking, autonomy, systems integration, and robotics. The role contributes to an AI-powered operating system and requires an active US Secret clearance. | Agent | 5 |
| Systems Engineer, Space Anduril is a defense technology company developing AI-powered systems for military applications, including space. This role focuses on systems engineering for space missions, involving technical strategy, roadmap development, and overseeing the delivery of hardware and software solutions for satellite and payload systems. The position requires experience in defense/IC satellite systems, government contracts, and spacecraft standards, with a focus on integrating existing Anduril technologies and developing new ones to meet customer requirements in space domain awareness and control. | — | 5 |
| GNC Engineer, Space The GNC Engineer will work on the design of satellite GNC subsystems, including hardware sensors, actuators, orbit mechanics, navigation algorithms, flight software, and integration. The role involves algorithm design, modeling, simulation, and analysis for various spacecraft missions. Key responsibilities include developing modern, software-defined approaches to autonomous spacecraft operations, designing flight software, algorithms, and simulation products, and defining automated fault detection and responses. The role also requires collaboration with multiple teams and end-users to translate needs into features, supporting challenging schedules during ground testing, launch, and on-orbit operations. | Agent | 5 |
| Software Engineer Software Engineer at Anduril Industries, a defense technology company, contributing to an AI-powered operating system (Lattice OS) that transforms military capabilities. The role involves developing state-of-the-art algorithms and software for mission-critical systems, with a focus on autonomy, AI, computer vision, and sensor fusion. Responsibilities include prototyping, implementing high-performance software, engaging with customers, and working across the full software development lifecycle. | Ship | 5 |
| Associate Director, Business Development, Massed Effects Business Development (BD) leads within the Massed Effects (MFX) Team are responsible for identifying, shaping, and capturing opportunities to grow revenue for the business line, focusing on robotic and autonomous systems (RAS) software opportunities within the US Navy and US Marine Corps. This role bridges prospects/clients with Product and Engineering teams, translating warfighter needs into product development and ensuring Anduril products meet user expectations. Responsibilities include finding and closing business, developing capture strategies, driving product development by translating client challenges to engineering, growing existing business, and communicating the company's value. | — | 5 |
| Staff Technical Program Manager, Hardware Robotics, Air Dominance & Strike This role is for a Staff Technical Program Manager focused on Hardware Robotics within the Air Dominance & Strike Division at Anduril Industries. The primary responsibility is to lead the development and deployment of defense technologies, manage programs across the contract lifecycle, and ensure successful delivery of products to the Department of Defense. The role requires a strong systems and engineering mindset, execution focus, and collaborative partnership with customers and internal teams. While the company utilizes AI and advanced technologies, this specific role is focused on program management and execution of complex technical systems, not direct AI/ML model development. | — | 5 |
| Technical Operations Engineer, Maneuver Dominance This role supports the development and deployment of autonomy-enabled UAVs for a defense technology company. The engineer will act as a bridge between product engineering and deployed operations, ensuring mission success in austere environments. Responsibilities include shaping and deploying solutions, supporting test events and customer demonstrations, and performing data-driven root cause analysis on complex systems. | Agent | 5 |
| Program Director, Air Dominance & Strike Program Director for Anduril's Air Dominance & Strike Division, focusing on leading development and integration of autonomous weapons systems, missiles, and software. Requires managing programs across the contract lifecycle, cost, schedule, and customer relationships within the defense sector. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Connected Warfare (Active Clearance) Software Engineer role at a defense technology company focused on building and deploying AI-powered software solutions for military capabilities, including autonomy, computer vision, and sensor fusion. The role involves owning software solutions, writing code for product improvement and scaling, collaborating across teams, analyzing metrics, triaging issues, and partnering with end-users. Requires an active US Secret Clearance and significant software engineering experience. | Ship | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Connected Warfare (Active Clearance) Software Engineer role at a defense technology company focused on building and deploying AI-powered software solutions for military capabilities, including autonomy, computer vision, and sensor fusion. The role involves owning software solutions, writing code for product improvement and scaling, collaborating across teams, analyzing metrics, triaging issues, and partnering with end-users. Requires an active US Secret Clearance and significant software engineering experience. | Ship | 5 |
| Mission Operations Engineer, Connected Warfare (Active Clearance) This role is for a Mission Operations Engineer at Anduril Industries, a defense technology company. The role involves orchestrating the deployment of Anduril's hardware and software products, managing customer relationships, driving commercial growth, and shaping product development based on customer needs and feedback. The engineer will collaborate across various internal teams and work with customers to understand their mission challenges and ensure the successful implementation and performance of Anduril's AI-powered systems, including those involving autonomy, computer vision, and sensor fusion. | — | 5 |
| Mission Operations Engineer, Connected Warfare (Active Clearance) This role is for a Mission Operations Engineer at Anduril Industries, a defense technology company. The role involves orchestrating the deployment of Anduril's hardware and software products, managing customer relationships, driving commercial growth, and shaping product development based on customer needs and feedback. The engineer will collaborate across various internal teams and work with customers to understand their mission challenges and ensure the successful implementation and performance of Anduril's AI-powered systems, including those involving autonomy, computer vision, and sensor fusion. | — | 5 |
| Signal Processing Engineer, Space Develops discrimination algorithms for EO/IR sensors to classify threats from decoys and debris for space and missile defense missions. Designs signal processing pipelines, including detection, feature extraction, and image processing, and develops advanced decision logic. Requires expertise in signal processing for EO/IR sensors, classification algorithms, detection theory, and algorithm development, with experience transitioning algorithms to production. | — | 3 |
| GNC Engineer, Space The GNC Engineer will work on the design of satellite GNC subsystems, including hardware sensors, actuators, orbit mechanics, navigation algorithms, flight software, and integration. The role involves algorithm design, modeling, simulation, and analysis for various spacecraft missions. Key responsibilities include developing modern, software-defined approaches to autonomous spacecraft operations, creating test plans, and defining automated fault detection and responses. The role supports ongoing, funded programs for building and fielding resilient, software-defined spacecraft systems. | — | 3 |
| Senior Program Manager, Carrier Integration - Active Clearance Program Manager for carrier-based autonomous platforms in the defense technology sector. This role focuses on program execution, internal R&D leadership, and carrier operations domain expertise to drive the development and deployment of AI-powered autonomous systems for the U.S. Navy. | — | 2 |
| Senior Firmware Engineer, AI, Drones & Robotics Company! Senior Firmware Engineer to develop core technology for defense systems including drones and robotics. Role involves low-level firmware development for land, sea, and air systems, working closely with Electrical Engineering. | — | 2 |
| Staff Modeling and Simulation Engineer, Discovery Staff Modeling and Simulation Engineer at Anduril, a defense technology company. The role focuses on designing mission solutions, building models, and developing simulations for spacecraft systems. It involves physics-level modeling, mission design, constellation design, and analysis for defense missions, working closely with various engineering teams. Experience with AI/ML algorithms is preferred but not core to the role. | — | 2 |
| Staff Modeling and Simulation Engineer, Discovery Staff Modeling and Simulation Engineer at Anduril, a defense technology company. The role focuses on designing mission solutions, building models, and developing simulations for spacecraft systems. It involves physics-level modeling, mission design, constellation design, and analysis for defense missions, working closely with various engineering teams. Experience with AI/ML algorithms is preferred but not core to the role. | — | 2 |
| Chief Engineer, Advanced Air Platforms (Fury) Chief Engineer for advanced air platforms (Fury) at a defense technology company. Responsible for the end-to-end lifecycle of unmanned aerial systems, from design to production and operational deployment. Focuses on technical leadership, strategic trades, system design, airworthiness, production acceleration, and operational support. Requires deep understanding of UAS, leadership experience, and experience with DoD systems. | — | 2 |
| Warfighter Systems Engineering Anduril Industries is seeking a Warfighter Systems Engineering leader to oversee the technical development and productization of advanced hardware and software systems for defense applications. This role involves transitioning prototypes to production-ready products, managing multidisciplinary engineering teams, and driving system architecture, integration, and qualification. The focus is on integrating technologies like computer vision, sensor fusion, autonomy, and networking into mixed reality systems for military operators. | — | 2 |
| DSP Engineer, EW The DSP Engineer will design, develop, and optimize digital signal processing algorithms and systems for radio direction finding and direction-of-arrival estimation in defense applications. This role involves implementing high-performance, real-time signal processing chains on embedded and hardware platforms, and collaborating with software and hardware engineers. Familiarity with deep learning algorithms is required, and experience with ML frameworks is preferred. | — | 2 |
| Guidance Navigation and Control (GNC) Engineer, Air Dominance & Strike Seeking a Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) Engineer with expertise in autonomous safety-critical systems for aerospace programs, including missiles and UAVs. The role involves developing, testing, and implementing GNC systems and architectures, utilizing MDAO techniques, and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams. Requires a BS in a relevant engineering field, 3+ years of GNC experience, and proficiency in simulation tools like MATLAB/Simulink. Must be eligible for a Top Secret clearance. | — | 2 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Maritime App Senior Software Engineer role focused on building full-stack applications and services for maritime command and control systems, integrating specialized data sources and transforming autonomous underwater vehicles into intelligent assets. The role involves designing user interfaces, back-end services, and data integrations, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and mentoring other engineers. | — | 2 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Platform Anduril Industries is a defense technology company seeking a Senior Software Engineer for their Platform team. The role involves designing and implementing core infrastructure and platform services that power Anduril's defense technology products, enabling efficient data management, task orchestration, and system-wide interoperability. The engineer will work with simulation, data management, compute infrastructure, and networking technologies to support autonomous robots and data-driven decision-making. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on building foundational systems for real-world deployment in defense applications. | — | 2 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Platform Anduril Industries is a defense technology company seeking a Senior Software Engineer for their Platform team. The role involves designing and implementing core infrastructure and platform services that power Anduril's defense technology products, enabling efficient data management, task orchestration, and system-wide interoperability. The engineer will work with simulation, data management, compute infrastructure, and networking technologies to support autonomous robots and data-driven decision-making. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on building foundational systems for real-world deployment in defense applications. | — | 2 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Platform Anduril Industries is a defense technology company seeking a Senior Software Engineer for their Platform team. The role involves designing and implementing core infrastructure and platform services that power Anduril's defense technology products, enabling efficient data management, task orchestration, and system-wide interoperability. The engineer will work with simulation, data management, compute infrastructure, and networking technologies to support autonomous robots and data-driven decision-making. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on building foundational systems for real-world deployment in defense applications. | — | 2 |
| Mission Software Engineer, Intelligence Systems Anduril Industries is a defense technology company developing AI-powered systems for military applications. This Mission Software Engineer role focuses on owning and improving deployed software solutions, collaborating across teams, and ensuring the seamless integration of various systems to achieve critical outcomes. The role involves significant data processing and analysis, and requires the ability to navigate complex systems and deliver impactful software. | — | 1 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Manufacturing Test This role is for a Senior Software Engineer in the Manufacturing Test organization at Anduril, a defense technology company. The engineer will develop applications for Windows and Linux, integrate cloud data, generate automation scripts (Python), triage issues, and partner with end-users. The focus is on ensuring product quality through systematic testing, automation, and data analytics to improve the development cycle. While the company utilizes AI and advanced technologies, this specific role is centered on manufacturing test and software development, not direct AI/ML model development. | — | 1 |
| Senior Electrical Engineer, Surveillance Tower Senior Electrical Engineer for a defense technology company developing surveillance towers with AI-enabled edge processing. The role focuses on end-to-end electrical hardware development, from architecture and design to verification and integration, ensuring production-ready solutions for military applications. Responsibilities include PCB design, component selection, testing, and troubleshooting for ruggedized electronics. | — | 1 |
| Director of Software, Radar Director of Software for the Battlespace Awareness Radar team at Anduril, a defense technology company. This role involves leading a team to deliver mission-critical software for radar systems, focusing on embedded systems, signal processing, and edge deployment. Responsibilities include defining software strategy, building and managing teams, ensuring program execution, and collaborating across functions. The role requires strong technical expertise in embedded Linux, DevSecOps, cybersecurity, and heterogeneous architectures (Nvidia Jetson, FPGAs, CPUs). | — | 1 |
| Senior Systems Engineer, Launched Effects This role is for a Senior Systems Engineer at Anduril Industries, a defense technology company. The engineer will work on autonomous drones and related systems, focusing on defining systems engineering strategies, designing and implementing automated integration tests, and ensuring robust product design. The role involves safety-critical development, coordinating test events, and managing cross-team projects. While AI and computer vision are mentioned as technologies used by the company, this specific role focuses on systems engineering, integration, testing, and product delivery within the defense sector, rather than core AI/ML model development or research. | — | 1 |
| Software Engineer Full Stack Senior Software Engineer on the ArsenalOS team, responsible for architecting and implementing mission-critical solutions for Forge, Anduril's custom supply chain, manufacturing, and deployment mission execution software. The role involves optimizing production processes, analyzing manufacturing data, and driving improvements using web development and data analytics skills. The candidate will own and deliver features, contribute quality code, leverage AI tooling for development, and partner with the factory floor. | — | 1 |
| Manager, Cyber Threat Intelligence Manager for Cyber Threat Intelligence team focusing on threat research, adversary tracking, and vulnerability research to support defense technology products and infrastructure. Responsibilities include strategy setting, intelligence operationalization, cross-functional partnership, and team leadership. | — | 1 |
| Senior Optical Engineer AI&T, Space Imaging Anduril Industries is a defense technology company developing advanced military systems powered by an AI-driven operating system. This role focuses on the assembly, integration, and testing of optical systems for spaceborne products, working with suppliers, developing alignment plans, managing vendors for production scaling, and evaluating performance errors. The role requires experience with opto-mechanical systems, optical assembly, integration, and testing in prototype and production environments, along with data analysis proficiency. | — | 1 |
| Senior Manufacturing Engineer, Roadrunner This role is for a Senior Manufacturing Engineer at Anduril, a defense technology company. The focus is on industrializing the manufacturing process for the Roadrunner product, an autonomous VTOL counter-UAS interceptor. Responsibilities include driving DFM, innovating tool design, optimizing production lines, managing quality, and documenting build processes to scale production. | — | 1 |
| Senior System Safety Engineer Anduril Industries is a defense technology company seeking a Senior System Safety Engineer to ensure their military systems are safe and meet all requirements. The role involves developing and implementing system safety program plans, conducting safety analyses (FHA, Fault Tree, SCFTA, SSA), developing safety requirements, identifying and mitigating hazards, and supporting design reviews. The engineer will also lead safety corrective actions, develop system safety processes, verify risk reduction measures, and liaise with customers and regulatory bodies. Experience with safety-critical hardware/software in defense/aerospace, MIL-STD-882E, and safety analysis techniques is required. | — | 1 |