Senior Robotics Software Engineer, Omen
About this role
Engineering teams spend their time developing operationally relevant, multi-asset autonomy for the Omen hover-to-cruise autonomous air vehicle at the Costa Mesa headquarters. Engineers in this position handle tasks spanning networking, autonomy, systems integration, robotics, and perception while navigating complex code bases and making pragmatic technical tradeoffs. The Maneuver Dominance group builds autonomous systems that support runway-independent platforms deployed to defense and civilian domains.
Candidates joining the team will own mission autonomy systems, write code to scale capabilities, and collaborate across departments to test functionality. Successful engineers possess a pragmatic mindset focused on execution, scale, and making sound decisions while keeping mission requirements top of mind.
What you will do
- Own mission autonomy systems and services that are deployed to customers in the field.
- Write code to improve products and scale mission capabilities to a growing user base.
- Collaborate across multiple teams to plan, build, and test complex software functionality.
- Create and analyze metrics that are leveraged for debugging and monitoring systems.
- Triage issues, root cause failures, and coordinate next steps for resolution.
- Partner with end-users to turn needs into features while balancing user experience with engineering constraints.
- Travel up to 25 percent of the time to build, test, and deploy capabilities in the real world.
What you need
- Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics.
- Must have 8 or more years of professional industry experience working with C++ or Rust programming languages.
- Experience building software solutions involving significant amounts of data processing and analysis.
- Demonstrated ability to quickly understand and navigate complex systems and established code bases.
- A strong desire to work on critical software that has a real-world impact.
- Willingness to travel up to 25 percent of the time for testing and demonstrations.
- Active Secret Clearance is required for this role.
Nice to have
- Strong background with focus in Physics, Mathematics, and/or Motion Planning to inform modeling & simulation and physical systems.
- Experience developing and testing multi-agent autonomous systems and deploying them in real-world environments.
- Feature and algorithm development with an understanding of behavior trees.
- Experience developing software and hardware for flight systems and safety-critical functionality.
- Experience with distributed communication networks and message standards.
Benefits
- Highly competitive equity grants included in the majority of full-time offers
- Top-tier benefits for full-time employees supporting health, recovery, and future needs
Skills and tech stack
Questions candidates ask
What is the salary range for this role?
The U.S. salary range for this role is estimated between $220,000 and $290,000 USD in base salary. Actual salary offers may vary based on work experience, education, training, critical skills, and business considerations.
What are the travel requirements?
This position requires travel up to 25% of the time. Travel is necessary to build, test, and deploy capabilities in the real world during testing and demonstrations.
What security clearance is required?
An active Secret Clearance is required for this role. Candidates must meet this clearance requirement prior to starting.
Where is the job located?
This role is based at Anduril's headquarters located in Costa Mesa, California. Engineers will work directly from this location.
The application is on the official Anduril Industries careers page.
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