Senior Robotics Engineer, Maritime

Anduril Anduril · Defense · Costa Mesa, CA · Maritime & Maneuver Dominance : Maritime US Engineering : Maritime - Software

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company building autonomous maritime systems. This Senior Robotics Engineer role focuses on designing and implementing perception and planning capabilities for these systems, utilizing AI, computer vision, and sensor fusion. The role involves end-to-end ownership of subsystems, collaboration with cross-functional teams, and ensuring safe navigation and situational awareness. Experience with autonomous vehicle hardware, software development in C++/Python, and a background in robotics or a related field are required. The position is based in Costa Mesa, CA, with a salary range of $220,000-$292,000 USD and requires eligibility for a U.S. Secret security clearance.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design and implement trusted safe navigation, collision avoidance, and situational awareness systems that balance constraints, restrictions and requirements in a multi-stakeholder environment
  2. Design and implement scalable sub-systems including sensor processing, perception, tracking, motion planning, health management, anomaly detection, simulation, testing fixtures, and vehicle interfaces
  3. Contribute to the design and development of existing software components across Anduril, with the aim of developing components that are re-usable across multiple Anduril product lines
  4. Utilize advanced techniques in computer vision, sensor fusion, and machine learning to enhance perception and planning capabilities of Anduril vehicles
  5. Conduct thorough testing and validation of perception and planning algorithms through development and use of simulation and analysis of data from real-world experiments, including evolving the data analysis tooling.

Skills

Required

  • C++
  • Python
  • computer vision
  • sensor fusion
  • SLAM
  • motion planning
  • machine learning
  • autonomous vehicle hardware
  • radar
  • sonar
  • LIDAR
  • cameras
  • stakeholder engagement
  • requirements definition
  • roadmap management
  • team co-ordination
  • design
  • implementation
  • sustainment
  • evolution
  • validation and verification strategies
  • mentoring junior team members

Nice to have

  • autonomous systems in the ground, air, maritime or space domains
  • simulation tools and frameworks (Gazebo, Unity, Unreal Engine)
  • safety standards
  • certification processes for autonomous systems
  • System Engineering concepts

What the JD emphasized

  • trusted safe navigation
  • collision avoidance
  • situational awareness
  • computer vision
  • sensor fusion
  • machine learning
  • perception
  • planning
  • real-world experiments
  • validation and verification strategies

Other signals

  • autonomous systems
  • AI
  • computer vision
  • sensor fusion
  • robotics