Staff Software Engineer

Staff Software Engineer

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.

About The Job

Staff Software Engineers lead the delivery of a variety of software integrated into our products, acting as technical leads, extremely senior individual contributors, and/or as team leads that are also hands-on contributors. This includes autonomy, simulation, data processing, payload integration, and off-board command and control and decision support. We expect Staff Software Engineers to demonstrate unparalleled end-to-end outcome ownership, driving the rapid architecting, design, delivery, support, and evolution of next generation autonomous platforms through their entire product life-cycle.

What You'll Do

• Own customer success through the design and delivery of a multi-year, multi-stakeholder software roadmap that spans across multiple teams.
• Leverage internal product and program-specific engineering teams to rapidly deliver capability beyond the scope of current platforms, with a clear path for both architecture and capability evolution over time.
• Partner with external teams, collaborating on interfacing requirements between diverse systems and technologies.
• Drive architecture selection and design for robotic systems, including hardware selection, compute, storage and network architecture, service orchestration and other software platform concerns that balance constraints, restrictions and requirements in a multi-stakeholder environment.
• Contribute to the design and development of a company wide roadmap for software inputs to autonomous systems.
• Lead teams that develop software that runs on- and off- platform, using a variety of technologies.
• Act as a subject matter expert for software engineering, representing software equities in a multi-stakeholder environment including engineering, business and sales leadership.
• Drive the design and implementation of development processes for the initial delivery and subsequent iteration of software, including full lifecycle testing.
• Drive the creation of test and simulation fixtures that operate with both software- and hardware-in-the-loop.
• Support vehicle manufacturing and deployment.
• Lead teams of multi-disciplinary engineers, including as a mentor for Senior Software Engineers from differing backgrounds.
• Travel to co-locate with end-users and/or other teams up to 20% of the time.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Engineering, or a relevant field, or equivalent experience.
• Experience in a leadership position within a high performing technology organization.
• Extensive professional experience working as a Software Engineer with one or more domains and/or technologies of expertise.
• Systems and/or application programming skills including algorithms, data structures, concurrency, scaling, testing, infrastructure, software design and system design.
• Experience troubleshooting and analyzing remotely deployed software systems.
• Capacity to work holistically on software enabled capabilities up and down the software stack and through lifecycle through design, implementation, operation and sustainment.
• Capacity to act as the technical owner for an entire software system, including stakeholder engagement, requirements definition, roadmap management, team co-ordination, design, implementation, sustainment and evolution.
• Capacity to learn and grow individually, while mentoring senior team members effectively, building team cohesion and capacity.
• Ability to obtain and maintain an Australian Government Security Clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in a senior role for the delivery of a military mission system.
• Experience writing backend services or embedded software in C++, Rust and/or Go.
• Experience writing frontend applications using Typescript and React.
• Experience with the design, implementation and operation of horizontally scaled cloud technologies.
• Experience with the design, implementation and support of embedded software, particularly in the field of robotics.
• Experience with modeling and simulation.
• Experience with development of high assurance safety critical software.
• Experience within the product delivery lifecycle including manufacturing, system acceptance, deployment, and sustainment.
• Familiarity with Systems Engineering concepts.
• Desire to learn and grow into other roles that require experience as a Staff Software Engineer, such as Principal Software Engineer and/or Senior Manager, Software Engineering.
• Desire to grow into a Tech-Lead-Manager role, with responsibility for line management of engineers, in addition to delivery.