Principal Engineer

Who you are

• Have shipped embedded or edge systems where the OS, the security posture, and the application were all your problem simultaneously
• You have deep experience with or a passion to dive into Nix and NixOS
• Are adroit at telling Product teams "no, and here's why, but here's how we can acheive your goals" and having them thank you for it
• You view an unowned library as a liability rather than someone else's story
• Would rather be trusted by twelve engineering leads than have twelve reports
• 15+ years of proven experience building automated verification suites at scale
• 5+ years experience working in NixOS environments, declarative package management, and virtualization environments is highly required
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical industry experience
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience working in a regulated industry or with systems requiring high reliability and traceability
• This position requires eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance

What the job involves

• Anduril's hardware ships from many product organizations, and nearly all of it runs on a shared software platform
• We are looking for a Principal Engineer to define and ensure that our platform is robust and scalable enough to ship a device (we have many devices!)
• You will be the senior technical voice representing the consumers of platform software - the engineers inside each business line who are integrating Lattice, flashing boards, hardening images, and shipping to a customer with a date on it
• You'll find where the platform needs to go (or falls short), and then you will either build it, fix it, or drive the right ownership model
• You will also act as central SME and the glue between several teams with distant reporting structures
• This is a deeply technical, leadership-oriented Principal Engineer role which will have big impact across Anduril
• Embed yourself with the engineering leads of every business line shipping tactical devices. Learn their build, their pain, and their forks
• Develop and execute on a long term roadmap for supported compute platforms used throughout Anduril devices
• Run a continuous gap triage. Every gap resolves to build / assign / decline / defer - no gap sits unanswered
• Define the device baseline: OS and Jetpack, product-security components, resource-bounded Lattice service profiles, provisioning and key management. Then drive its delivery
• Reclaim orphaned platform code. Start with unmaintained C++; deprecate homegrown primitives in favor of standard third-party libraries, drive dependency count down, and standardize shared-library linkage
• Decide on who should own baseline closure definitions
• Integrate with our Security organization to ensure all deployed devices are secure by default, and that our business partners can easily provision secure hardware without a tribal-knowledge handoff
• Take on and permanently solve the unglamorous correctness work others route around, and raise the standards for other teams
• Supporting HITL (Hardware in the Loop) as a product. Use that as a model for building out new "products" from DeviceOS
• Work with other platform capabilities to build out the future of device management at scale

Benefits

• Full Family Health Coverage
• 16 Weeks Paid Parental Leave for All Caregivers
• Family Planning & Support
• Incentivized Time Off
• Mental Health Resources
• Financial Planning
• Unlimited Provisions
• Professional Development