Senior Flight 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.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Develop low-level flight software for microcontrollers, create reusable device drivers, integrate system-level features and architect changes to support an ever-growing codebase
• Develop hardware drivers to interface to various sensors such as Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs)
• Contribute to hardware-in-the-loop testing to verify and validate combined software and hardware functionality
• Quickly debug and troubleshoot issues that span the electrical, firmware, and software boundaries
• Help select microcontrollers and peripherals and review schematics with electrical engineering team

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• BS or MS in CS/CE/EE or equivalent industry experience
• Strong C coding ability for embedded systems
• Demonstrated experience developing embedded software for autonomous flight vehicles
• Advanced competency in real-time embedded software control systems
• Experience integrating microcontrollers with analog and digital sensors
• Experience developing firmware in bare-metal or RTOS environments
• Debugging skills with JTAG, SWD, Oscilloscopes, and Logic analyzers
• Solid understanding and application of coding best practices, board bring up and debugging
• Solid experience with common bus protocols such as USB, SPI, I2C, CAN, ARINC-825, RS232/485, Ethernet
• Willing to travel ~50% to partner with firmware team in Costa Mesa
• U.S. Persons status is required as this position needs to access export controlled data

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with flight software such as Ardupilot
• Experience with one or more microcontroller cores (ARM, AVR, MSP430, PIC, etc.)
• Have a bias for action. If you see a problem, you want to solve and fix it
• Be naturally curious about the technologies and tools you use