Software Engineer, Strategic Defense (Active Clearance)

The Software Engineer (Strategic Defense) role at Anduril Industries involves building and owning production software for networking, autonomy, systems integration, and robotics. This position is based in Irvine, CA (onsite) and requires an active U.S. Secret clearance (or higher).

Location and Compensation

• Location: Irvine, CA (onsite)
• Salary: USD 166,000 - 220,000 per yearly
• Minimum experience: 3 years

What You Will Do

• Own software solutions that are deployed to customers at the edge of innovation and necessity
• Write code to improve robust C2 products and scale mission capabilities to broaden impact
• Collaborate across multiple engineering teams to plan, build, and test functionality of complex systems
• Partner with end-users to turn needs into features quickly while balancing user experience and engineering constraints
• Travel 10 - 30% with the team to build, test, and deploy capabilities in the real world

Required Qualifications

• Currently possesses and can maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance (or higher)
• 3-8+ years writing production software in languages such as C++, Rust, Go, or Python
• Owned a feature or service end-to-end, covering design, implementation, deployment, and follow-up when issues occur
• Debugged problems in code you did not write and in systems you did not design
• Can explain technical tradeoffs to non-software-engineering stakeholders such as operators, hardware engineers, and customers

Technologies

• C++
• Rust
• Go
• Python

About the Strategic Defense Team

• Protects the United States and its allies from ballistic, hypersonic, and air-breathing threats
• Builds a software-defined command and control layer that can see, decide, and act faster than any human operator could alone
• Applies expertise spanning autonomy, tracking, simulation and wargaming, hardware, systems engineering, and test and evaluation to build an accredited fire control system fielded rapidly and at scale
• Works on incubating and maturing AI-native offerings for the integrated air and missile defense domain

Job Details

This application is for experienced coders with 3+ years of experience. The process includes live coding interviews, and the role does require active clearance.

You will write code side-by-side with peers to address problems involving networking, autonomy, systems integration, robotics, and related areas. The position also emphasizes making pragmatic engineering tradeoffs in ambiguous situations to reach desired outcomes.

Preferred Qualifications

• A desire to work on critical software with real-world impact
• Exposure to robotics, distributed systems, networking, or real-time systems
• Experience with mid and upper tier Air Defense Command and Control (C2) programs
• Experience working where software touches physical hardware
• Experience building software solutions involving significant amounts of data processing and analysis
• A degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, Math, or Physics
• Willingness to travel up to 20% to Asia Pacific

Benefits

A comprehensive, competitive benefits package is available at little to no cost to employees and supports health and recovery.

Protecting Yourself from Recruitment Scams

• No Financial Requests: Anduril will never solicit payment or demand personal financial details at any stage of the hiring process.
• Verify communications: recruiter email will come only from an @anduril.com address; recruiting agency email will identify the agency and can be verified by reaching out to [email protected].
• Exercise caution with unsolicited outreach: do not engage with suspicious communication and confirm the sender’s email domain is @anduril.com.
• If you suspect fraud: report questionable or fraudulent outreach immediately to [email protected].

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