Senior Software Engineer, Game Development

Anduril Anduril · Defense · Boston, MA +1 · Software : Software Platform

Senior Software Engineer role focused on game development and real-time visualization systems for a defense technology company. The role involves partnering with stakeholders, identifying technical risks, resolving defects, and optimizing performance for systems that scale across various devices. Requires strong C++ skills, understanding of 3D math, and experience in shipping games or real-time visualization systems.

What you'd actually do

  1. Partner with stakeholders to establish clear priorities and define expectations, which translate to a scope of work that you and the team can deliver
  2. Identify technical risks and their solutions, collaborating with the broader engineering groups at Anduril
  3. Ensure client stability by diagnosing and resolving defects
  4. Analyze and optimize both memory and performance in systems that have to scale from high-end desktops to mobile AR systems
  5. Identify problems and solve them, while implementing robust, high-quality solutions

Skills

Required

  • Excellent C++ skills and software engineering principles
  • Experience working in large codebases to solve complex problems
  • Minimum five years of professional programming experience
  • Solid understanding of 3D math
  • Ability to write clean, maintainable and extensible code with attention to reusability
  • Experience in a broad range of engineering areas on shipping games or real time visualization systems, with special attention given to low-level code
  • Excellent spoken and written communication
  • Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret security clearance

Nice to have

  • Linux development experience
  • Experience developing on console platforms
  • Shipped at least one AAA game title in a similar role

What the JD emphasized

  • Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret security clearance