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Job Summary:
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company focused on transforming military capabilities with advanced technology. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the delivery of integrated software solutions for autonomous systems, ensuring customer success through a multi-year roadmap and collaboration across teams.
Responsibilities:
• Own customer success through the design and delivery of a multi-year, multi-stakeholder software and hardware roadmap that spans across many teams across the company
• Design and build a robust, MOSA-compliant systems (HTTP, gRPC) and data models that allow plug-and-play integration of first and third party sensors, payloads, and legacy defense platforms
• Develop and execute the frontend and backend systems, in partnership with other software teams across the company, that power our Single Pane of Glass orchestration engine, enabling a single operator to manage multi-domain, multi-vehicle operations
• Deploy to the edge, working closely with end-user customers and robots, to push capabilities to the maritime hardware operating in highly constrained, communications denied environments
• Leverage internal product and program-specific engineering teams to rapidly deliver capability beyond the scope of current platforms, with a clear path for both architecture and capability evolution over time
• Drive architecture selection and design for robotic systems, including hardware selection, compute, storage and network architecture, service orchestration and other software platform concerns that balance constraints, restrictions and requirements in a multi-stakeholder environment
• Contribute to the design and development of a company wide roadmap for software inputs to autonomous systems
• Lead teams that develop software that runs on-and-off-platform, using a variety of technologies
• Act as a subject matter expert for software engineering, representing software equities in a multi-stakeholder environment including engineering, business and sales leadership.
• Drive the design and implementation of development processes for the initial delivery and subsequent iteration of software, including full lifecycle testing
• Drive the creation of test and simulation fixtures that operate with both software- and hardware-in-the-loop
• Treat the ocean as validation, building and scaling high-fidelity Software-in-the-Loop (SITL/SIL) environments that test our systems continuously before they’re validated in the water
• Lead teams of multi-disciplinary engineers, including as a mentor for Senior Software Engineers from differing backgrounds
• Travel to co-locate with end-users and/or other teams up to 20% of the time
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor’s degree in Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Engineering, a relevant field, or equivalent/relevant experience
• Experience in a leadership position within a high performing technology organization
• Extensive professional experience working as a Software Engineer with one or more domains and/or technologies of expertise
• Systems and/or application programming skills including algorithms, data structures, concurrency, scaling, testing, infrastructure, software design and system design
• Experience troubleshooting and analyzing remotely deployed software systems
• Capacity to work holistically on software enabled capabilities up and down the software stack and through lifecycle through design, implementation, operation and sustainment
• Capacity to act as the technical owner for an entire software system, including stakeholder engagement, requirements definition, roadmap management, team co-ordination, design, implementation, sustainment and evolution
• Capacity to learn and grow individually, while mentoring senior team members effectively, building team cohesion and capacity
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance
Preferred:
• Familiar with the defense context, experience in a senior role for the delivery of a military mission system, standards, data links, or cross domain solutions
• Experience writing backend services or embedded software in C++, Rust and/or Go
• Experience writing frontend applications using Typescript and React
• Experience with the design, implementation and operation of horizontally scaled cloud technologies
• Experience with the design, implementation and support of embedded software, particularly in the field of robotics
• Experience with modeling and simulation
• Experience with development of high assurance safety critical software
• Experience within the product delivery lifecycle including manufacturing, system acceptance, deployment, and sustainment.
• Familiarity with Systems Engineering concepts
• Desire to learn and grow in to other roles that require experience as a Staff Software Engineer, such as Principal Software Engineer and/or Senior Manager, Software Engineering
• Desire to grow in to a Tech-Lead-Manager role, with responsibility for line management of engineers, in addition to delivery
Company:
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company that specializes in developing advanced autonomous systems to enhance national security. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in Costa Mesa, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.