Anduril
Staff Software Engineer, Active Clearance, Air Defense
$220K–$292K
Irvine, California, United States · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 15, 2025
- Experience
- 10+ years working with a variety of programming languages.
- Education
- Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Computer Engineering.
About the job
Own and deliver software for Anduril’s Air Defense systems, integrating capabilities that detect, track, and counter airborne threats in operational environments.
What you'll do
- Build, test, and deploy customer-facing software; improve products and scale mission capabilities.
- Collaborate across teams and with end-users to plan functionality, translate needs into features, and balance user experience with engineering constraints.
- Create and analyze monitoring metrics, troubleshoot and root-cause failures, and travel 30% of the time to build, test, and deploy capabilities.
What they ask for
- 10+ years working with a variety of programming languages.
- Experience building software involving significant data processing and analysis.
- Ability to quickly understand complex systems and established code bases.
- Active U.S. Secret clearance.
Nice to have
- Experience with NixOS.
- Experience developing and testing multi-agent autonomous systems and deploying them in real-world environments.
Pay
$220,000 — $292,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, Rust, Go, NixOS
AI focus
The role develops Air Defense software involving autonomy and robotics to detect, track, identify, deter, and defeat UAS threats.
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