Anduril
Senior Software Engineer, Air Defense
$191K–$253K
Irvine, California, United States · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jun 1, 2026
- Experience
- 6+ years working with a variety of programming languages.
- Visa sponsorship
- The role requires eligibility to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.
About the job
Builds and deploys software for Anduril’s air defense systems, integrating networking, autonomy, robotics, and other capabilities to detect and counter UAS threats.
What you'll do
- Own, develop, and deploy software solutions that improve products and expand mission capabilities.
- Collaborate across teams and with end-users to plan, build, test, and deliver functionality.
- Create and analyze monitoring metrics; triage issues, find root causes, and coordinate fixes.
What they ask for
- Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics.
- 6+ years working with a variety of programming languages.
- Experience building software involving significant data processing and analysis.
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.
Nice to have
- Experience developing and testing multi-agent autonomous systems and deploying them in real-world environments.
- Background in Physics, Mathematics, or Motion Planning; experience with behavior trees, flight or safety-critical systems, distributed networks, message standards, or military systems.
Pay
$191,000 — $253,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, C++, Rust, Go, JavaScript
AI focus
The role involves autonomy and robotics software for air defense; the posting describes Anduril’s broader systems as AI-powered but does not specify AI development as a job duty.
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