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Senior Mission Software Engineer

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Senior Mission Software Engineer in USA

  • Anduril Industries
  • Full time
  • Email
  • Costa Mesa, CA

Responsibilities

  • Investigate field-reported anomalies across autonomous vehicle subsystems and determine their true root causes.
  • Reproduce failures using recorded sensor or mission data, live pipelines, and visualization tooling.
  • Use metrics, dashboards, and centralized logs to reconstruct system state during failures.
  • Implement and test fixes in Rust, modern C++, Python, or Go through the standard CI and versioned rollout process.
  • Validate fixes in simulation and hardware-in-the-loop environments before deployment to real vehicles.
  • Distinguish between software bugs, configuration problems, and deployment mismatches, and correct issues at the appropriate layer.
  • Document root causes and fixes, help develop on-call and triage runbooks, and communicate required subsystem changes to owning teams.

Requirements

  • Demonstrated experience debugging code written by others under time pressure and with incomplete information.
  • Proficiency sufficient to read and fix code in at least two of Rust, modern C++, Python, and Go.
  • Experience with systems debugging, logs, metrics, offline reproduction from recorded data, and observability tooling.
  • Familiarity with Prometheus/Grafana-class metrics and Loki/ELK-class logging systems.
  • Linux and systems fluency; experience with declarative or immutable operating systems such as NixOS is a bonus.
  • Clear technical writing and root-cause communication skills.
  • Willingness to work close to hardware and sensors without requiring prior maritime or robotics experience.
  • Willingness to travel 25% or more on average.
  • Robotics middleware, sensor drivers, real-time data pipelines, simulation-in-the-loop or hardware-in-the-loop testing, embedded or fleet software deployment, and field-support or on-call experience are preferred.

Benefits

  • Competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees.
  • Full-time employees may receive competitive equity grants as part of total compensation.
  • The role requires travel of 25% or more on average.

Salary: $191k - $253k/yr

Anduril Industries

Anduril Industries builds advanced autonomous systems designed to enhance military awareness and security across land, sea, and air. Targeting defense agencies and allied military forces, it leverages its proprietary Lattice platform to drive innovation in military capabilities. What sets Anduril...

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