Anduril
Software Engineer, Air Defense
$166K–$220K
Irvine, California, United States · Full-time · Posted Jun 1, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years working with a variety of programming languages.
About the job
Build, integrate, test, and deploy software for Anduril’s air defense systems, which detect, track, identify, and defeat unmanned aerial threats.
What you'll do
- Own and improve software solutions deployed to customers, including code that scales mission capability.
- Collaborate across teams to plan, build, and test functionality; analyze metrics and troubleshoot failures.
- Partner with end-users to translate needs into features and travel up to 30% to build, test, and deploy capabilities.
What they ask for
- Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics.
- 3+ 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
- Background in Physics, Mathematics, or Motion Planning; experience with modeling and simulation or physical systems.
- Experience with multi-agent autonomous systems, behavior trees, flight or safety-critical systems, distributed networks, or military systems.
Pay
$166,000 — $220,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, C++, Rust, Go, JavaScript
AI focus
The role develops software for autonomous air defense capabilities; the posting describes the company’s systems as AI-powered but does not specify particular AI development duties for this role.
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