Staff Robotics Software Engineer - Mission Autonomy
About this role
Staff Robotics Engineers lead the delivery of vehicle perception and planning capability integrated into defense technology products, acting as technical leads, senior individual contributors, and team leaders. The Maneuver Dominance team builds Thunder, an autonomous attack rotorcraft designed to fly low and in formation while managing weapons, sensors, and radios in contested spectrums. Team members own the navigation and autonomy stack, resolving antenna constraints and delivering safe navigation, collision avoidance, and situational awareness.
Professionals in this capacity handle end-to-end outcome ownership, driving the architecture, design, and evolution of safe vehicle autonomy across the entire product life cycle. Candidates coordinate with cross-functional software, mechanical, and systems engineering teams while engaging stakeholders to define multi-year technical roadmaps. Ideal engineers combine deep technical mastery in perception and planning with the leadership capacity to mentor junior staff and guide complex autonomous systems from concept to deployment.
What you will do
- Design and deliver multi-year software roadmaps spanning multiple teams and stakeholders.
- Lead teams that build trusted safe navigation, collision avoidance, and situational awareness systems.
- Perform hands-on architecture and implementation across the perception and planning stack using computer vision, sensor fusion, and machine learning.
- Collaborate with internal and external engineering groups to define interfacing requirements and ensure effective system integration.
- Conduct thorough testing and validation of algorithms through simulation and real-world flight experiments.
- Travel up to twenty percent of the time to co-locate with end-users and other engineering teams.
What you need
- Hold a Bachelor's degree in Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Engineering, or a relevant field, or possess equivalent experience.
- Bring seven or more years of experience in C++ and/or Python software development.
- Demonstrate familiarity with autonomous vehicle hardware and sensors such as radar, sonar, LIDAR, and cameras.
- Show verified knowledge in at least one area including computer vision, sensor fusion, SLAM, motion planning, or machine learning.
- Possess prior experience in a senior perception or planning role delivering robotic systems.
- Maintain the capacity to act as technical owner for complex systems through requirements definition, roadmap management, and team coordination.
- Be eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.
Nice to have
- Experience with autonomous systems in the ground, air, maritime or space domains
- Experience with simulation tools and frameworks, such as Gazebo, Unity, or Unreal Engine
- Knowledge of safety standards and certification processes for autonomous systems
- Familiarity with System Engineering concepts
Benefits
- Highly competitive equity grants included in the majority of full-time offers
- Top-tier benefits for full-time employees ensuring support in health and recovery
Skills and tech stack
Questions candidates ask
What is the salary range for this position?
The base salary range for this role is estimated between $253,000 and $336,000 USD. Actual salary offers may vary based on work experience, education, training, critical skills, and business considerations.
What travel is expected for this role?
Engineers may need to travel up to twenty percent of the time to co-locate with end-users and other teams.
What clearance is required to join?
Candidates must be eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.
The application is on the official Anduril Industries careers page.
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