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Staff Software Engineer, Air Defense (Active Clearance)

Anduril Industries builds advanced defense technologies and an AI-powered operating system (Lattice OS) to accelerate military capability. The Air Defense team develops networked sensors and effectors to detect, track, identify, deter, and defeat UAS threats; they seek a Staff Software Engineer with an active U.S. Secret clearance to design, implement, and deploy robust software solutions across networking, autonomy, systems integration, and robotics in operational environments.

Skills

  • Strong software engineering fundamentals and system-level reasoning
  • 10+ years writing production code in languages such as Python, C++, Rust, Go, JavaScript
  • Proficient with React and JavaScript/TypeScript for UI/frontend work
  • Experience building data processing and analysis pipelines
  • Ability to quickly understand and work within complex, established codebases
  • Experience integrating software with robotics, autonomy, or embedded systems
  • Active U.S. Secret clearance

Responsibilities

  • Own, design, and deliver software solutions deployed to customers for air defense systems
  • Write reliable, maintainable code to scale mission capability across products
  • Collaborate with product, engineering, operations, and mission teams to plan, build, and test complex features
  • Create and analyze metrics, logging, and telemetry for debugging and monitoring
  • Triage incidents, perform root cause analysis, and coordinate remediation
  • Partner with end users to translate field needs into practical, safe features
  • Support deployments and field testing, traveling up to 30% to build and sustain systems

Education

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or equivalent industry experience
  • Advanced degree (MS/PhD) preferred for specialized modeling or research roles

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans (US roles)
  • Life and disability insurance covered by company
  • Generous PTO and caregiver & wellness leave, December holiday hiatus
  • Family planning and parenting support including fertility and adoption coverage
  • 24/7 mental health resources, therapy, and life coaching
  • Annual professional development reimbursement
  • Commuter benefits and relocation assistance (role dependent)
  • 401(k)/retirement plans (US roles) and competitive equity grants
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