Mission Software Engineer, General

WHY WE’RE HERE

The Mission Software Engineering team builds, deploys, integrates, extends, and scales Anduril's software to deliver mission-critical capabilities to our customers. As the software engineers closest to Anduril customers and end-users, Mission Software Engineers solve technical challenges of operational scenarios while owning the end-to-end delivery of winning capabilities such as Counter Intrusion, Joint All Domain Command & Control, and Counter-Unmanned Aircraft Systems.

As a Mission Software Engineer, you will solve a wide variety of problems involving networking, autonomy, systems integration, robotics, and more, while making pragmatic engineering tradeoffs along the way. Your efforts will ensure that Anduril products seamlessly work together to achieve a variety of critical outcomes. Above all, Mission Software Engineers are driven by a “Whatever It Takes” mindset—executing in an expedient , scalable , and pragmatic way while keeping the mission top-of-mind and making sound engineering decisions to deliver successful outcomes correctly, on-time, and with high quality.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

1. Own the software solutions that are deployed to customers
2. Write code to improve products and scale the mission capability to more customers
3. Collaborate across multiple teams to plan, build, and test complex functionality
4. Create and analyze metrics that are leveraged for debugging and monitoring
5. Triage issues, root cause failures, and coordinate next-steps
6. Partner with end-users to turn needs into features while balancing user experience with engineering constraints
7. Travel up to 30% of time to build, test, and deploy capabilities in the real world

CORE REQUIREMENTS

1. Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in areas/fields such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics.
2. At least 2-5+ years working with a variety of programming languages such as Java, Python, Rust, Go, JavaScript, etc. (We encourage all levels to apply)
3. Experience building software solutions involving significant amounts of data processing and analysis
4. Ability to quickly understand and navigate complex systems and established code bases
5. A desire to work on critical software that has a real-world impact
6. Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. TS clearance

Desired Requirements

1. Strong background with focus in Physics, Mathematics, and/or Motion Planning to inform modeling & simulation (M&S) and physical systems
2. Developing and testing multi-agent autonomous systems and deploying in real-world environments.
3. Feature and algorithm development with an understanding of behavior trees.
4. Developing software/hardware for flight systems and safety critical functionality.
5. Distributed communication networks and message standards
6. Knowledge of military systems and operational tactics

WHAT WE VALUE IN MISSION SOFTWARE

1. Customer Facing - Mission Software Engineers are the software engineers closest to Anduril customers, end-users, and the technical challenges of operational scenarios.
2. Mission First - Above all, MSEs execute their mission in an expedient , scalable , and pragmatic way. They keep the mission top-of-mind and make pragmatic and thoughtful engineering decisions to deliver successful outcomes.
3. Small Project Wrangling = Large Project Impact - Our MSEs are the voice of our business line(s). They are the forcing function that gets us to think about how a project will transition to production and tie in to the centralized functions across the business.
4. Embrace Challenge (and follow through) - We take responsibility for achieving the mission; Developing technical self-sufficiency across a wide range of environments. Ruthlessly prioritizing, while honing our ability to understand large systems and incorporate new components in varying levels of complexity.
   
   

BENEFITS

1. Platinum Benefits: We offer top tier platinum coverage (medical, dental, vision, life) and cover premiums for you.
2. 16 Weeks paid parental leave for all caregivers
3. Family planning: We’re proud to offer comprehensive family planning support. Fertility planning and treatment, adoption support, gestational carrier support and fertility preservation are all included.
4. Unlimited Provisions: From breakfast to dinner, our kitchen team has you covered with healthy meals and snacks at every office.
5. Commuter benefits depending on region
6. Relocation assistance
7. Paid Time Off