Senior Space Mission Software Engineer, Orbital

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.

WHY WE’RE HERE

As a Senior Software Engineer on Space Orbital Systems, you will own the architecture and deployment of software solutions that support customer missions for on-orbit spacecraft operations, mission management, and autonomy. As a senior software engineer, you will develop modular capabilities to support the DoD and IC customers across the space domain. This will involve the architecture of an orbital software system built on top of the Anduril Lattice software platform, to include infrastructure, algorithms, and integrations to support orbital systems and their interfacing with multi-domain systems. The Anduril orbital software capability development will involve integration with legacy systems that have been part of our nation’s critical defense for decades as well as new space systems being added to the cache of orbital and ground-based capabilities. The role will also be responsible for the interfaces to multi-modal payload platforms, bus platforms and networking solutions in proliferated satellite constellations

We work with mission partners and operators to deploy reliable and robust capabilities on operationally-relevant fielding timelines to meet complex challenges across the DOD and IC.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Own the software solutions that are deployed to customers
• Own the development of on-orbit software capabilities to enable delivery of end to end mission systems
• Integrate with legacy systems to unlock 21st-century capabilities
• Write code to improve products and scale the mission capability to different users 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

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in areas/fields such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics.
• Ability to quickly understand and navigate complex systems and detailed requirements
• Capable of solving complex technical problems with little oversight
• Clear communication and organizational skills including documentation and training material
• At least 5-10+ years working with a variety of programming languages such as Java, Python, C++, Rust, Go, JavaScript, etc.
• Experience with spacecraft software systems and spacecraft operations
• Experience with satellite mission autonomy to include fault isolation and recovery systems
• A desire to work on critical software that has a real-world impact
• Must be able to maintain a U.S. Security clearance (Secret, Top Secret, TS with SCI)

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with Rust or C++
• Experience with deployment tooling such as Kubernetes or Nix
• A desire to work on critical software in the space domain
• Experience with existing space software standards and modular software services development
• An active security clearance (Secret, Top Secret, TS with SCI)

WHAT WE VALUE IN MISSION SOFTWARE

• Customer Facing - Mission Software Engineers are the software engineers closest to Anduril customers, end-users, and the technical challenges of operational scenarios.
• 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.
• 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 busines