- Robot type
- Drone · Defense
- Location
- Costa MesaCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Software
- Posted
- Jun 9, 2026
- Salary
- $191,000–$253,000 a year
Senior Robotics Software Engineer, Sensor Fusion
Job description
On the Air Dominance & Strike team, we build hardware and software that allows masses of autonomous aerial systems to think, coordinate, and act together.
We are looking for a Senior Robotics Software Engineer who wants to work at the intersection of advanced math and physical hardware. You will write the onboard software that handles sensor fusion, target tracking, and state estimation, enabling our unmanned vehicles to perceive their environment and collaborate in real-time. This is a highly technical, high-impact individual contributor role.
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.
Job requirements
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance
- Bachelors, Masters, or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, Mechatronics, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field
- Hardware-Adjacent & Onboard Systems: You are intimately familiar with writing application-level software that runs onboard physical systems (running Linux).
- Strong Math/Algorithmic Foundation: You understand the fundamentals of localization, Kalman filtering, state estimation, and tracking.
- Polyglot Coder: You write production-grade C++ or Rust, prototype quickly in Python, and appreciate modern build tools like Nix.
- Pragmatic Doer: You want to see your code fly. You prefer writing code and testing it on physical hardware over sitting in long meetings or writing endless theoretical papers (this role is 80% active development).
- At 6 Months: You have shipped production software to real robots. Your code is actively running on physical hardware during customer demonstrations or operational testing, solving a real-world tracking or fusion…
- At 12 Months: You are the undisputed subject matter expert (SME) for our tracking and fusion product features. When other teams at Anduril have questions about state estimation or target tracking, they come to you.
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