Anduril Industries
Software Engineer, Strategic Defense
About this role
Anduril Industries seeks a Software Engineer for its Strategic Defense team to develop AI-native software solutions for integrated air and missile defense systems. You'll own deployed solutions, collaborate across teams on complex functionality, and travel extensively to build and test capabilities in real-world environments, with fluency in Mandarin required.
What you'll do
- Own and maintain software solutions deployed to defense customers
- Write and scale code to improve products and expand mission capability
- Collaborate across multiple teams to plan, build, and test complex functionality
- Create metrics for debugging, monitoring, and performance analysis
- Triage issues, perform root cause analysis, and coordinate resolution
- Travel up to 50% to Asia Pacific for field testing and deployment
What they're looking for
- Go, Rust, or Python programming
- Frontend frameworks (React or Angular)
- Data processing and analysis at scale
- Systems integration and complex codebase navigation
- Distributed communication networks
- Safety-critical software development
- Mandarin language fluency
- Networking and autonomy systems
Benefits
- Competitive equity grants included in majority of offers
- Top-tier health and wellness benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package at little to no employee cost
- Impact-driven work on critical national security systems
- Collaboration with elite teams in AI and edge hardware
- Multi-location flexibility (California, Virginia, Washington DC, Seattle)
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Anduril Industries
Anduril Industries builds autonomous defense systems including underwater vehicles, unmanned aircraft, and electronic warfare platforms for the Department of Defense. The company is hiring across mechanical engineering, mission operations, software development, technical leadership, and advanced manufacturing roles to support the design, deployment, and production of these mission-critical systems.
- Website
- anduril.com
Likely interview questions
- Describe your experience building software for safety-critical systems and how you ensured reliability and quality.
- Tell us about a time you had to quickly understand and navigate a complex, unfamiliar codebase. How did you approach it?