Senior Localization Engineer Jobs in Massachusetts

Job Summary:
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company focused on transforming military capabilities through advanced technology. The role involves leading the design and development of autonomy software for autonomous underwater vehicles, managing a small team, and ensuring mission systems meet customer requirements. The position requires technical leadership, hands-on software development, and collaboration across teams to deliver cutting-edge defense solutions.
Responsibilities:
• Act as a technical leader owning software for Copperhead
• Draw on both your technical expertise and leadership skills to set objectives, build cross-functional teams, and rapidly drive projects to completion
• Manage and develop a small team (3-4 employees initially), setting priorities, delegating work effectively, and providing coaching and mentorship to support individual growth and long-term career success
• Drive the design and implementation of development processes for the initial delivery and subsequent iteration of payloads and mission systems
• Act as the technical owner for an entire mission system, including stakeholder and customer engagement, requirements definition, roadmap management, team coordination, design, implementation, sustainment and evolution
• Organize integration events, scoping key deliverables and impact to broader program
• Own customer success through the design and delivery of a fully operational mission system
• 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
• Generate system solutions to improve reliability, ease-of-use, and capability across a variety of customer missions
• Write and maintain core libraries (frame transformations, targeting and guidance, communications, etc.) that all robotics platforms at Anduril will use
• Own major feature development for Copperhead and manage rollout to the fleet
• Travel up to 15% of time to build, test, and deploy capabilities in the real world, and collaborate with other teams or end-users
Qualifications:
Required:
• Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in areas/fields such as Robotics, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mechatronics, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics
• System architecture experience
• Hands-on experience developing software for embedded and physical devices
• Proven understanding of data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and code optimization
• 6+ years of professional C++ or Rust programming experience in a Linux development environment
• Experience with NixOS
• Experience troubleshooting and analyzing remotely deployed software systems
• Experience with the development and sustainment of distributed software platform and application architectures, running under dynamic network topologies
• Capacity to work holistically on software enabled capabilities up and down the software stack and through lifecycle through design, implementation, operation and sustainment
• Demonstrated curiosity and ability to learn outside of core discipline, and a desire to work on critical software that has a real-world impact
• Experience engaging with customers to represent the technical aspects of a product portfolio regarding missions and payloads
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across technical teams
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance
Preferred:
• MS or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, or a related field
• Experience in a leadership position within a high performing technology organization
• Experience with modeling and simulation of complex systems
• Proficiency in Python, Rust, and/or Go
• Experience in one or more of the following: high performance computing, network programming, fault tolerance, fault handling, DevSecOps
• Experience solving complex frame transformation problems, such as target localization or multi degree of freedom robotic arms
• Experience in one or more of the following: sensor integration, tracking and estimation, motion planning, perception, localization, mapping, guidance, navigation and control, and related system performance metrics
• Solid understanding of robotics systems, common interfaces and protocols (gRPC, TCP/IP, RS485, RS232)
• Demonstrated ability to learn and grow individually, while effectively mentoring senior team members, building team cohesion, and increasing team capability
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.