Senior Software Engineer

Anduril Anduril · Defense · London, United Kingdom · Maritime & Maneuver Dominance : Undersea Reconnaissance & Strike - Engineering & Operations : Software Engineering

Senior Software Engineer at Anduril's Maritime Division, focusing on delivering AI-powered autonomous systems for defense applications. The role involves end-to-end ownership of software-enabled solutions, from design and implementation to deployment and sustainment, working with autonomy, simulation, data processing, and command and control systems. Requires strong software engineering fundamentals and experience with full lifecycle development, with a focus on delivering value to end-users in a regulated defense environment.

What you'd actually do

  1. Empathize with end-users and drive solutions that balance their needs with external constraints, restrictions and requirements in a multi-stakeholder environment
  2. Own software enabled solutions that are deployed to customers, optimizing for the delivery of value to the end-user
  3. Design and implement scalable software that rapidly delivers capability beyond the scope of current platforms, with a clear path for both architecture and capability evolution over time
  4. Contribute to the design and development of existing software services across Anduril, with the aim of developing components that are re-usable across multiple Anduril product lines
  5. Develop software that runs on- and off- robotic platforms, using a variety of technologies

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Engineering, a relevant field, or equivalent experience
  • Extensive professional experience working as a Software Engineer with one or more domains and/or technologies of expertise
  • Systems and/or application programming skills including algorithms, data structures, concurrency, scaling, testing, infrastructure, software design and system design
  • Experience troubleshooting and analyzing remotely deployed software systems
  • Capacity to work holistically on software enabled capabilities up and down the software stack and through lifecycle through design, implementation, operation and sustainment
  • Capacity to act as the technical owner for a software service, including stakeholder engagement, requirements definition, roadmap management, team co-ordination, design, implementation, sustainment and evolution
  • Capacity learn and grow individually, while mentoring junior team members effectively, building team cohesion and capacity
  • Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

Nice to have

  • Experience in a senior role for the delivery of a military mission system
  • Experience writing backend services or embedded software in C++ and/or Rust
  • Experience with the design, implementation and operation of horizontally scaled cloud technologies
  • Experience with the design, implementation and support of embedded software, particularly in the field of robotics
  • Experience with modeling and simulation
  • Experience with development of high assurance safety critical software
  • Experience within the product delivery lifecycle including manufacturing, system acceptance, deployment, and sustainment.
  • Familiarity with Systems Engineering concepts
  • Desire to learn and grow in to other roles that require experience as a Senior Software Engineer, such as Staff Software Engineer and/or Software Engineering Manager

What the JD emphasized

  • Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

Other signals

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