Flight Software Engineer, Maritime

Anduril

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• Design and implement safety-critical flight software for maritime autonomous vehicles, including vehicle management systems, sensor processing, state estimation, and actuation control • Develop embedded firmware and drivers for autonomous underwater and surface vessels while managing power, networking, and contingency recovery systems • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to architect and deliver next-generation autonomous platforms throughout their entire product lifecycle, from design through deployment • Demonstrate end-to-end ownership of projects, contributing to Anduril's billion-dollar maritime contracts and Robot-as-a-Service operations across multiple vehicle platforms (Dive-XL, Copperhead, Seabed Sentry, and surface products) • Work on cutting-edge defense technology that directly impacts national strategic priorities, with opportunities to solve real-world challenges in autonomous maritime systems

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

About the Team

Anduril’s Maritime Division has assembled a diverse team of experts in software, robotics, artificial intelligence, sensor fusion, and data analysis to create software and hardware solutions that radically evolve the capabilities of our customers. We are fielding the next generation of autonomous systems to tackle the extremely challenging industry demands of maritime operations. Anduril has brought to market a unique, ultra-long-range, full-ocean-depth underwater vessel platform and a completely refreshed maritime vehicle and flexible manufacturing architecture that scales from "small" to "extra-large" vehicle sizes. Today, Anduril is executing on billion-dollar contracts while simultaneously performing Robot-as-a-Service (RaaS) AUV operations.

We are continuing to expand our product portfolio, now moving into the surface maritime domain. Products like Dive-XL, Dive-LD, Copperhead, Seabed Sentry, and surface products in the pipeline will create a system-of-systems that enable a multitude of autonomous missions across all maritime domains. If you are passionate about solving problems that have real impact and working on systems that directly contribute to achieving national strategic priorities, we want you to join Anduril’s Maritime Division and help us build the future of defense capability.

About the Job

Software Engineers contribute to the delivery of a variety of embedded and/or safety critical software integrated in to our products. This includes device management, drivers, firmware, power management, networking, and contingency management and recovery. We expect Software Engineers to demonstrate end-to-end outcome ownership of their projects, contributing as a member of a team to the rapid architecting, design, delivery, support, and evolution of next generation autonomous platforms through their entire product life-cycle.

What You’ll Do

Design and implement trusted, safety critical Vehicle Management Systems that balance constraints, restrictions and requirements in a team environment.
Design and implement scalable vehicle sub-systems including sensor processing, state estimation, contingency management, actuation, payload interfaces, and mission systems interfaces
Contribute to the development of existing software components across Anduril, with the aim of developing components that are re-usable across multiple Anduril product lines
Develop real-time embedded software using an RTOS.
Develop device drivers and interfaces to a variety of sensors and actuators.
Create test and simulation fixtures that operate with both software-and hardware-in-the-loop.
Support vehicle manufacturing and deployment.
Work as a member of a multi-disciplinary engineering team
Travel to co-locate with end-users and/or other teams up to 20% of the time

Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Engineering, a relevant field, or equivalent experience
At least 4 or more years of relevant experience.
Experienced and proficient at writing C.
Experience with an RTOS.
Familiarity with communications busses and protocols (e.g. CAN, CANFD, UART/RS232/RS422/RS485, SPI, QSPI, I2C, Ethernet, ARINC-825, ARINC-429, MIL-STD-1553, etc).
Systems programming skills including algorithms, data structures, concurrency and optimization.
Capacity to work holistically on software enabled capabilities through design, implementation, operation and sustainment
Capacity to learn and grow rapidly, building personal and team capacity, growing your skills to the standard of Senior Software Engineer
Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in design and development of embedded applications in autonomous vehicle software systems.
Experience with development of high assurance safety critical software applications.
Experience in developing interfaces to sensors and actuators.
Experience troubleshooting and analyzing remotely deployed software systems.
Experience working with and testing electrical and mechanical systems.
Experience with DO-178, IEC 61508, or similar certifications.
Familiarity with navigation and communications systems.
Experience within the product delivery lifecycle including manufacturing, system acceptance, deployment, and sustainment.
Familiarity with Systems Engineering concepts

US Salary Range

$166,000—$220,000 USD

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:

Benefits

At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next. For more information, Explore Our Benefits.

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Exercise Caution with Unsolicited Outreach: If you receive any communication that appears suspicious, contains grammatical errors, or makes unusual requests, do not engage. Always confirm the sender's email domain is @anduril.com before providing any personal information or clicking on links.
What to Do If You Suspect Fraud: Should you encounter any questionable or fraudulent outreach claiming to be from Anduril, please report it immediately to contact@anduril.com. Your proactive caution is invaluable in protecting your personal information and upholding the security and trustworthiness of our recruitment efforts.

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Company:
Anduril
Location:
Costa Mesa, California, United States
Job Type:
Contract
Experience Level:
Mid
Source:
Greenhouse
Status:
Active

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