Senior Robotics Software Engineer

• The Maneuver Dominance team at Anduril develops operationally relevant, multi-asset autonomy. We are focused on making large groups of autonomous systems work effectively together. We leverage existing Anduril drone platforms like Ghost or Altius, in addition to bringing 3rd party platforms into Anduril’s Lattice ecosystem
• We are looking for a Senior Robotics Software Engineer to join our rapidly growing team in Costa Mesa, CA
• In this role, you will be responsible for solving a wide variety of problems involving networking, autonomy, systems integration, robotics, and more, while making pragmatic engineering tradeoffs along the way
• Your will ensure that Anduril products seamlessly work together to achieve a variety of critical outcomes
• This will require strong systems-level knowledge and experience
• If you are someone who possess a “Whatever It Takes” mindset—executing in an expedient, scalable, and pragmatic way while keeping the mission top-of-mind and making sound engineering decisions then this role is for you
• Own the mission autonomy systems and services that are deployed to customers
• Write code to improve products and scale the mission capability to more customers
• Collaborate across multiple teams to plan, build, and test complex functionality
• Create and analyze metrics that are leveraged for debugging and monitoring
• Triage issues, root cause failures, and coordinate next-steps
• Partner with end-users to turn needs into features while balancing user experience with engineering constraints
• Travel up to 25% of the time to build, test, and deploy capabilities in the real world

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- 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 established code bases
• Experience building software solutions involving significant amounts of data processing and analysis
• Eligible to obtain an active U.S. Secret security clearance
• 6+ years of professional industry experience working with C++ or Rust programming languages
• A desire to work on critical software that has a real-world impact
• Must be willing to travel up to 25% for testing and demonstrations
• Strong background with focus in Physics, Mathematics, and/or Motion Planning to inform modeling & simulation (M&S) and physical systems
• Feature and algorithm development with an understanding of behavior trees
• Developing and testing multi-agent autonomous systems and deploying in real-world environments
• Developing software/hardware for flight systems and safety critical functionality
• Experience with distributed communication networks and message standards