Software Engineer, Strategic Defense

<div class="content-intro"><p>Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.</p></div><h3>ABOUT THE TEAM</h3> <div id="C0C1BM6QNMP-1789413201.264469-thread-list-Thread_1789413201.264469"> <div>Strategic Defense protects the United States and its allies from ballistic, hypersonic, and air-breathing threats. Those threats now arrive in seconds, maneuver mid-flight, and come in volleys designed to overwhelm the legacy systems meant to stop them — so we're building a software-defined command and control layer that can see, decide, and act faster than any human operator could alone. Our team spans autonomy, tracking, simulation and wargaming, hardware, systems engineering, and test and evaluation to build an accredited fire control system fielded rapidly and at scale.</div> <h3>ABOUT THE JOB</h3> <p>We're seeking a Software Engineer to join our rapidly growing team in Irvine, CA or Huntsville, AL. As a Software Engineer on the Strategic Defense team, you will solve a wide variety of problems involving networking, autonomy, systems integration, robotics, and more, while making pragmatic engineering tradeoffs along the way. Your efforts will ensure that Anduril products seamlessly work together to achieve a variety of critical outcomes. Above all, Software Engineers are driven by 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 to deliver successful outcomes correctly, on-time, and with high quality.</p> <p>This role will focus on the Guam Defense System Battle Manager product. Experience with mid and upper tier Air Defense Command and Control programs is a plus. You will be helping to create a new strategic business line and will work closely with the other strategic Command and Control programs within Anduril.</p> <h4>WHAT YOU’LL DO</h4> <ul> <li>Own the software solutions that are deployed to customers</li> <li>Write code to improve products and scale the mission capability to more customers</li> <li>Collaborate across multiple teams to plan, build, and test complex functionality</li> <li>Create and analyze metrics that are leveraged for debugging and monitoring</li> <li>Triage issues, root cause failures, and coordinate next steps</li> <li>Partner with end-users to turn needs into features while balancing user experience with engineering constraints</li> <li>Travel up to 30% of time to build, test, and deploy capabilities in the real world</li> </ul> <h4>REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS</h4> <ul> <li>Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance</li> <li>Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in areas/fields such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics</li> <li>3+ years working with a variety of programming languages such as Python, C++, Rust, Go, JavaScript, etc.</li> <li>Experience building software solutions involving significant amounts of data processing and analysis</li> <li>Ability to quickly understand and navigate