- Robot type
- Drone · Defense
- Location
- QuincyMassachusettsUSA
- Job type
- Software
- Posted
- Sep 18, 2026
- Salary
- $191,000–$253,000 a year
Senior Software Engineer, VMS
Job description
Senior Software Engineers independently drive the delivery of a variety of embedded and/or safety critical software integrated in to our products. This includes device management, drivers, firmware, power management, networking, and contingency management and recovery. We expect Senior Software Engineers to demonstrate end-to-end outcome ownership at the major subsystem or system level. Senior Software Engineers contribute as a technical lead to the rapid architecting, design, delivery, support, and evolution of next generation autonomous platforms through their entire product life-cycle.
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S.
Job responsibilities
- Design and implement trusted, safety critical Vehicle Management Systems that balance constraints, restrictions and requirements in a multi-stakeholder environment.
- Design and implement scalable vehicle sub-systems including sensor processing, state estimation, contingency management, actuation, payload interfaces, and mission systems interfaces.
- Contribute to the design and development of existing software components across Anduril, with the aim of developing components that are re-usable across multiple Anduril product lines.
- Develop real-time embedded software using an RTOS.
- Develop device drivers and interfaces to a variety of sensors and actuators.
- Create test and simulation fixtures that operate with both software-and hardware-in-the-loop.
- Support vehicle manufacturing and deployment.
- Work as a member of a multi-disciplinary engineering team, including as a mentor for Software Engineers from differing backgrounds.
Job requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Engineering, a relevant field, or equivalent experience.
- Experienced and proficient at writing C.
- Experience with Real Time Operating Systems (RTOS).
- Familiarity with communications busses and protocols (e.g. CAN, CANFD, UART/RS232/RS422/RS485, SPI, QSPI, I2C, Ethernet, ARINC-825, ARINC-429, MIL-STD-1553, etc).
- Systems programming skills including algorithms, data structures, concurrency and optimization.
- Capacity to act as the technical owner for a software component, including stakeholder engagement, requirements definition, roadmap management, team co-ordination, design, implementation, sustainment and evolution.
- Capacity to learn and grow individually, while mentoring junior team members effectively, contributing to team cohesion and capacity.
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.
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