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Anduril

Robot type
Drone · Defense
Location
IrvineCaliforniaUSA
Job type
Software
Posted
Jun 1, 2026
Salary
$220,000–$292,000 a year
Full-time

Staff Software Engineer, Air Defense

Job description

The Air Defense team builds robots that find other robots and knock them out of the sky. 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.

We're seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our rapidly growing team in Irvine, CA. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will solve a wide variety of problems involving networking, autonomy, systems integration, robotics, and more,…

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 up to 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, Mathematics, or Physics
  • 10+ years working with a variety of programming languages such as Python, C++, Rust, Go, JavaScript, etc.
  • Strong Experience with React and Javascript/TypeScript
  • 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
  • Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance
  • Strong background with focus in Physics, Mathematics, and/or Motion Planning to inform modeling & simulation (M&S) and physical systems
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