Senior Software Engineer (frontend), Space

Anduril Anduril · Defense · Costa Mesa, CA · AFS : Space Engineering

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company building AI-powered systems for military applications. This role is for a Senior Software Engineer (Frontend) on the Space team, focusing on developing mission-critical frontend software for space operations, mission management, and autonomy. The engineer will own the design, implementation, and deployment of UX workflows on top of the Lattice software platform, integrating with legacy and new space systems. The role requires strong frontend development skills, experience with large enterprise applications, and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own the software solutions that are deployed to customers
  2. Own the development of frontend software capabilities to enable delivery of end to end mission systems
  3. Integrate with legacy systems to unlock 21st-century capabilities
  4. Write code to improve products and scale the mission capability to different users more customers
  5. Collaborate across multiple teams to plan, build, and test complex functionality

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of professional programming experience with relevant frontend Javascript frameworks
  • Experience with real-time user interfaces that use reactive programming libraries - RxJS or similar
  • Proficiency with web-based technologies such as Javascript, React, Typescript
  • Ability to empathize with end-users, to turn needs into features, and to balance user experience with engineering constraints
  • Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance
  • Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in areas/fields such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics
  • Ability to quickly understand and navigate complex systems and detailed requirements
  • Capable of solving complex technical problems with little oversight
  • Clear communication and organizational skills including documentation and training material

Nice to have

  • Familiarity with AWS, Typescript, and React
  • Experience in hyper growth startup-like environments, with demonstrated successes in scaling and maturing software development processes, team culture and methods, and ability to balance short-term and long-term trade offs
  • Experience with spacecraft software systems and spacecraft operations
  • Experience with satellite mission autonomy to include fault isolation and recovery systems
  • Experience with deployment tooling such as Kubernetes
  • A desire to work on critical software in the space domain
  • Experience with existing space software standards and modular software services development

What the JD emphasized

  • mission-critical frontend software solutions
  • complex challenges across the DOD and IC
  • critical defense
  • mission partners and operators to deploy reliable and robust capabilities on operationally-relevant fielding timelines
  • complex technical problems with little oversight
  • critical software that has a real-world impact
  • large enterprise applications and platforms with high availability requirements
  • critical software in the space domain