Principal 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.

Anduril Software Engineers in the Connected Warfare (CW) Division build, deploy, integrate, extend, and scale Anduril's software on hardware systems to deliver mission-critical capabilities to our customers at the tactical edge. As the software engineers closest to customers/end-users, Software Engineers solve technical challenges of operational scenarios while owning the end-to-end delivery of winning capabilities.

As a Principal Software Engineer on the Edge Compute and Comms (ECC) Engineering team, you will rapidly prototype and create new products and solutions to address a wide variety of customer problems involving software, hardware, networking, autonomy/robotics, systems integration, and more, while making pragmatic engineering tradeoffs along the way. Your efforts will ensure that Anduril products seamlessly work together to achieve a variety of critical outcomes. Above all, ECC Software Engineers are driven by a “Whatever It Takes” mindset—executing in an expedient, scalable, and methodical way while keeping the mission top-of-mind and making sound engineering decisions to deliver successful outcomes correctly, on-time, and with high quality. You will work on new technology introduction and enhancing products like the Menace Family of Systems to bring integrated C4 (Compute, Comms, Command, and Control) capabilities to the tactical edge.

We are working on cutting edge, complex systems that must deliver critical capability on aggressive timelines to outmatch the pacing threats and empower our customers with commercial style technologies that they can immediately use for defense. We are looking for an highly organized, growth mindset, hands-on, Principal Software Engineer to mentor and build teams of SWEs in designing, architecting, building and collaborating with our software, hardware, operations, SRE, and business development teams to exceed customer expectations and bring new products and capabilities to market.

WHAT YOU’LL DO 

• You will work closely with Product Managers, Business Development, and other engineering teams (internal and external), leading the rapid capabilities development process from concept, prototyping, fielding, and transitioning to the production team.
• Own the ECC software solution suites that are deployed to customers and internal stakeholders
• Architect and design scalable systems
• Create roadmaps and execution plans
• Write code to improve products and scale the mission capability to 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
• Travel up to 30% of time to build, test, and deploy capabilities in the real world
• Brief executives (internal and external) and high ranking officials
• Mentor a team of talented SWEs at various career stages to deliver multiple SW products

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS 

• Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in areas/fields such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics
• 5+ years as a technical leader on agile SWE teams
• 10+ years working with a variety of programming languages such as Java, Python, C++, Rust, Go, JavaScript, etc.
• Experience working with Linux and/or NixOS.
• Experience building software solutions involving hardware integrations
• Experience building scalable solutions on edge infrastructure
• Ability to quickly understand and navigate complex systems and established code bases
• Passionate about working on critical software that has a real-world impact
• Be data driven and customer outcomes focused
• Experience using AGILE methodologies and execution

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS 

• Computer Science or C