Senior Software Engineer - Route Planning Service

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 TEAM
The Lattice Autonomy team builds a robotics platform that enables users to rapidly build, test, & iterate on multi-agent autonomy. Our customers use teams of heterogeneous vehicles that can sense the world, move around, and coordinate to achieve their objectives given high-level plans from an operator. We are building a mission autonomy platform that is deployed on a variety of robotics platforms from high-end autonomous jets and large underwater autonomous vehicles through to smaller rotary wing aircraft, and everything in between. Every mission demands a different set of payloads, and our mission autonomy software must be flexible enough to allow users to build behaviors that make the best use of the specific sensors & payloads available.

Core to our autonomy software is the underlying motion planner, which is responsible for routing vehicles in a way that allows them to coordinate to accomplish the objectives of the mission. We’re extending the motion planning stack to expose an interface to the user who sits at the ground control station, allowing them to express their objectives in a natural way, quickly iterate through candidate routes in the front end, and better understand the way our autonomous vehicles will navigate throughout the mission. You’ll have the chance to build and deploy a new service that will see widespread use throughout the company. Note that while expertise in motion planning and routing algorithms is a bonus, the primary skill required for this role is experience building and deploying production back-end services at scale.


WHAT YOU’LL DO

• This is a 0 to 1 opportunity to build a new route planning service for Lattice which will see widespread adoption across Anduril’s autonomy programs
• Design and implement a scalable and reliable service that hosts Anduril’s on-vehicle motion planning stack for rapid auditioning of vehicle routes during mission planning
• Solicit and incorporate feedback from end users of the service and collaborate with adjacent engineering teams to help make the product vision a reality
• Work with front-end engineers to enable smooth and intuitive workflows in the UI for users of the route planning service
• Create and maintain APIs, SDKs, and documentation for production software
• Follow sound engineering practices and own the end-to-end software development life cycle for a new product

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on back-end development and service-based architecture in production environments
• Experience with API design, gRPC, and Protobuf
• Familiarity with C++ (and, at a minimum, expertise in at least one of C++, C#, Java, or Go)
• Strong communication skills and an ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams
• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Familiarity with robotics, motion planning, or multi-agent autonomy
• Experience with DevOps practices and tooling (e.g., CI/CD, containerization)
• Advanced knowledge of C++

US Salary Range$138,000—$252,000 USD

 

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:

• Platinum Healthcare Benefits: For U.S. roles, we offer comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans at little to no cost to you.
  • For UK roles, Private Medical Insurance (PMI): Anduril will cover the full cost of the insurance premium for an employee and dependents.