Embedded Software Team Lead (Cryptography), Intelligence Systems

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 Intelligence Systems (AIS) is focused on positioning Anduril as a lead provider of specialized engineering and products for Intelligence Community (IC) customers. We work within the IC to understand their requirements, shape their concepts of operation, and deliver exquisite capability across their problem set. We aim to develop and deploy critically needed capabilities that address our customers’ most pressing national security requirements.

AIS is seeking embedded software team leads to build out the software ecosystem supporting next-generation hardware platforms powered by cutting-edge System-on-Chip devices, producing code that is rigorously tested and validated. Your developers are highly motivated and will have come to Anduril because they loathe shelfware and want to have impact.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

• Oversee implementation, rigorous testing, and validation of cryptographic algorithms from formal specifications.
• Provide technical leadership and people management for a team of 5-8 developers, giving them guidance on scope, direction, and technical approach, proactively identifying and removing blockers for the team.
• Foster a healthy collaborative team environment — our people matter to us.
• Work in a fast-paced and rapidly growing environment, on a program of significant national security importance.
• Create, own, and maintain a software roadmap and execution plan, with detailed breakdown of work and milestones tracked against broader software and program deliverables.
• Actively contribute to the software development for critical tasks as needed to meet program deadlines.
• Adhere to software best practices and coding standards, perform code reviews, interact with revision control, build processes, and testing.
• Triage issues and investigate root cause failures.
• Report to the overall software lead for the project.
• Coordinate with other software team leads, engineering leads, and external teams or subcontractors as needed.

Required Qualifications

• Must have an active United States Top Secret security clearance.
• 8+ years in relevant Science and/or Engineering related field.
• 8+ years of experience writing production software (C, C++, or Rust).
• 5+ years leading and building software engineering teams.
• Expertise implementing complex cryptographic algorithms and security requirements.
• Experience building low-level embedded software solutions involving hardware integration.
• Ability to quickly understand and navigate complex systems and established code bases.
• Ability to understand and implement complex certification requirements.
• Desire to work with an outstanding team of developers.
• Willingness to write and oversee world-class code.
• Deep commitment to solid, reviewed, well tested, well commented, well documented code.
• Familiarity with CI/CD, static code analysis, advanced debugging.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Cryptol.
• Experience implementing ASN.1 and X.509.
• Experience working with complex SoCs.
• Strong focus on security.

US Salary Range$132,000—$198,000 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.