Senior Software Engineer, Active Clearance, Air Defense

Anduril Anduril · Defense · Irvine, CA · TEMPLATE: Dept: MSE BL: 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.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own the software solutions that are deployed to customers
  2. Write code to improve products and scale the mission capability to more customers
  3. Collaborate across multiple teams to plan, build, and test complex functionality
  4. Create and analyze metrics that are leveraged for debugging and monitoring
  5. Triage issues, root cause failures, and coordinate next-steps

Skills

Required

  • 7+ years working with a variety of programming languages such as Python, Rust, Go, 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
  • Active U.S. Secret clearance

Nice to have

  • Experience with NixOS
  • 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 clearance

Other signals

  • AI-powered operating system
  • autonomy
  • computer vision
  • sensor fusion
  • multi-agent autonomous systems