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Anduril

Robot type
Drone · Defense
Location
IrvineCaliforniaUSA
Job type
Software
Posted
Oct 15, 2025
Salary
$220,000–$292,000 a year
Full-time

Staff Software Engineer, Active Clearance, Air Defense

Job description

The Air Defense team builds robots that detect airborne threats and neutralizes them. At a time when air superiority can no longer be taken for granted, the Air Defense Team provides mission critical capabilities to warfighters. From detection to tracking, identification, deterrence, and defeat, our family of networked sensors and effectors enables our customers to rapidly close the kill chain against a broad range of Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) threats.

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.

Job responsibilities

  • Own the software solutions 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 30% of time to build, test, and deploy capabilities in the real world

Job requirements

  • Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in areas/fields such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Computer Engineering
  • 10+ years working with a variety of programming languages such as Python, Rust, Go, etc.
  • Experience building software solutions involving significant amounts of data processing and analysis
  • Ability to quickly understand and navigate complex systems and established code bases
  • A desire to work on critical software that has a real-world impact
  • Active U.S. Secret clearance
  • Experience with NixOS
  • Developing and testing multi-agent autonomous systems and deploying in real-world environments

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