Motion Planning ML 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.

WHY WE'RE HERE

The Vehicle Autonomy (Robotics) team at Anduril develops aerial and ground-based robotic systems. The team is responsible for taking products like Ghost, Anvil, and our Sentry Tower from paper sketches to operational systems. We work in close coordination with specialist teams like Perception, Autonomy, and Manufacturing to solve some of the hardest problems facing our customers. We are looking for software engineers and roboticists excited about creating a powerful robotics stack that includes computer vision, motion planning, SLAM, controls, estimation, and secure communications.

We are hiring for Motion Planning ML Engineers to build foundation models for our robotics to drive the future of autonomy across all current and future generations of autonomous military vehicles. 

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Experience applying machine learning techniques to build multi-modal multi-task sensor fusion architectures solving problems for our perception stack including object detection and tracking, segmentation, OD understanding, flow estimation and future prediction
• Gain understanding of how machine learning powers a safety critical, large-scale application in a real-world environment
• Design and develop large-scale foundation models 
• Develop data mining, labeling, training and evaluation pipelines

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in areas/fields such as Robotics, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics
• 5+ experience working as a Software Engineer within Computer Vision, Machine Learning and deep learning
• Strong experience with Python or C++
• Ability to quickly understand and navigate complex systems and established code bases
• An “under the hood” knowledge of deep learning: layer details, loss functions, optimization, etc 
• Proven expertise in deploying production ML models for autonomous systems (AVs, UAVs, USVs), computer vision, or natural language processing at scale 
• U.S. Person status is required as this position needs to access export controlled data

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• PhD degree in Computer Science or a similar discipline, or an equivalent amount of machine learning experience
• Experience with Imitation Learning, Reinforcement Learning (offline/off-policy), modern Neural Network architectures (e.g., GPT, Diffusion), or related techniques

US Salary Range$168,000—$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 top tier platinum coverage (medical, dental, vision) that are 100% covered by Anduril for you and 90% covered for your dependents.
  • For UK roles, Private Medical Insurance (PMI): Anduril will cover the full cost of the insurance premium for an employee and dependents.
  • For AUS roles, Private health plan through Bupa: Coverage is fully subsidized by Anduril.
• Basic Life/AD&D and long-term disability insurance 100% covered by Anduril, plus the option to purchase additional life insurance for you and your dependents.
• Extremely generous company holiday calendar including a holiday hiatus in December, and highly competitive PTO plans.
• 16 weeks of paid Caregiver & Wellness Leave to care for a family member, bond with your baby, or tend to your own medical condition.
• Family Planning & Parenting Support: Fertility (eg, IVF, preservation), adoption, and gestational carrier coverage with a