Mission Software Engineer, Vehicle Software, Active Clearance

Anduril Anduril · Defense · Costa Mesa, CA · Air Dominance & Strike : Air Dominance & Strike Engineering : Mission Software Engineering

Software Engineer role focused on building foundational vehicle software for autonomous defense systems, including control, networking, and sensor integration. The role involves significant data processing and analysis, with a preference for experience in multi-agent autonomous systems and flight systems.

What you'd actually do

  1. develop software for vehicle control, networking, sensor integration, and telemetry
  2. build the foundational vehicle software stack that supports the wide range of AD&S initiatives, from early concept simulation to first flight to live operations to large scale fleet management
  3. collaborate with other engineering disciplines to develop software for vehicle control, networking, sensor integration, and telemetry

Skills

Required

  • active U.S. Secret security clearance
  • Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics background
  • 3+ years working with a variety of programming languages such as Java, Python, C++, Rust, Go, JavaScript, etc.
  • Experience building software solutions involving significant amounts of data processing and analysis
  • Ability to quickly understand and navigate complex systems and established code bases
  • A desire to work on critical software that has a real-world impact

Nice to have

  • Strong background with focus in Physics, Mathematics, and/or Motion Planning to inform modeling & simulation (M&S) and physical systems
  • Developing and testing multi-agent autonomous systems and deploying in real-world environments
  • Feature and algorithm development with an understanding of behavior trees
  • Developing software/hardware for flight systems and safety critical functionality
  • Distributed communication networks and message standards
  • Knowledge of military systems and operational tactics

What the JD emphasized

  • active U.S. Secret security clearance
  • developing and testing multi-agent autonomous systems and deploying in real-world environments
  • developing software/hardware for flight systems and safety critical functionality