Mission Software Engineer - Undersea Reconnaissance & Strike

<div class=&quot;content-intro&quot;><p>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.</p></div><p>Anduril Maritime builds autonomous underwater/surface vehicles: autonomy computers running control and mission logic, payload computers driving sonar and other sensors, surface integration units, and ground control stations

Were past the &quot;does it work in the lab&quot; phase - vehicles are in the field, and field vehicles find bugs the lab never does We need someone whose job, starting day one, is to pick up those bugs and actually close them: reproduce it, find the real cause, fix it, ship it, tell the team what happened.</p>

<p>To be clear about what this isnt: its not a ticket-triage-and-forward job, and its not &quot;junior dev does the boring work while senior devs build features.&quot; Youll be shipping real fixes in the real codebase

Youre just entering the codebase through &quot;this broke on a vehicle&quot; instead of &quot;heres a clean feature spec.&quot; Once youve built up cross-subsystem fluency - which this role forces faster than sitting in one subsystem ever would - you move into owning subsystems and roadmap work like anyone else.</p>

<p><strong>What youll actually be doing</strong></p>

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<li>Take a field-reported anomaly (sensor stopped publishing, mission faulted mid-track, data stream drifted for no obvious reason) and figure out what subsystem its actually in - not just where it was reported.</li>

<li>Reproduce it for real. Replay recorded sensor/mission data through the live pipeline, pull it into visualization tooling, dont guess.</li>

<li>Use the metrics and log infrastructure that already exists (per-service metrics, dashboards, centralized logs) to reconstruct system state at the moment things went wrong, instead of re-running until you get lucky.</li>

<li>Confirm the fix in a simulated environment first, hardware-in-the-loop where that matters, before it goes anywhere near a real vehicle.</li>

<li>Write the fix in whatever language the subsystem actually uses - Rust, C++, Python, Go, whatever — with tests, through CI, out through the normal versioned rollout. No special &quot;triage&quot; shortcut path.</li>

<li>Figure out whether the actual problem is a bug, a bad config, or a deployment mismatch, and fix it at the layer where it actually lives instead of patching around it one level up.</li>

<li>Write down root cause and fix for every issue you close. Not for the paperwork — so we can see, over months, which subsystems keep breaking and which tests were missing. Help build the on-call/triage runbook this team doesnt have yet.</li>

<li>Push back to the owning team when the real fix is &quot;this subsystem needs to change,&quot; not &quot;patch the symptom and move on.&quot;</li>

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<p><strong>&nbsp;What you need to already have</strong></p>

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<li>Real experience debugging code you didnt write, under time pressure, with incomplete information. This matters more than which language you know best.</li>

<li>Enough comfort in at least two of Rust, modern C++, Python, Go to read and fix bugs in them. You dont need to be an expert in all four - you need to not freeze up when youre dropped into one you know less well.</li>

<li>Systems-debugging instincts: pull logs and metrics, reconstruct what happened, reproduce offline from recorded data instead of only live.</li>

<li>Some real exposure to observability tooling (Prometheus/Grafana-class metrics, Loki/ELK-class logs) — you should already know how to use this stuff, not learn it here.</li>

<li>Linux and systems fluency. Bonus if youve touched declarative/immutable OS setups (NixOS-style).</li>

<li>The ability to write up what actually happened clearly, without padding it out or burying the cause. &quot;The vehicle did something weird&quot; is not an acceptable final answer from you.</li>

<li>Willingness to work close to hardware and sensors even if youve never touched maritime or robotics before. Were not looking for domain background, were looking for the debugging instinct.</li>

<li>Willingness to travel 25%+ of the time on average</li>

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<p><strong>Nice to have, not required</strong></p>

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<li>Robotics middleware, sensor drivers, or real-time data pipeline experience (sonar, radar, lidar, whatever).</li>

<li>Time in simulation-in-the-loop or hardware-in-the-loop test setups.</li>

<li>CI/CD and versioned deployment experience for embedded or fleet software.</li>

<li>Actual on-call or field-support experience for hardware that ships to real users, not just internal tools.</li>

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<p><strong>Where this goes</strong></p>

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<li>This is a real entry point, not a holding pen. Do this well and youll know more of the stack than most people who joined doing greenfield feature work — and thats exactly who ends up owning subsystems and driving roadmap next.</li>

</ul><div class=&quot;content-pay-transparency&quot;><div class=&quot;pay-input&quot;><div class=&quot;title&quot;>US Salary Range</div><div class=&quot;pay-range&quot;><span>$166,000</span><span class=&quot;divider&quot;>&mdash;</span><span>$220,000 USD</span></div></div></div><div class=&quot;content-conclusion&quot;><p><span data-contrast=&quot;auto&quot;>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 Andurils total compensation package

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<p><span data-contrast=&quot;auto&quot;>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.&nbsp;</span><em><span data-contrast=&quot;auto&quot;>For more information, <a href=&quot;https://www.anduril.com/careers&quot;>Explore Our Benefits</a>.</span></em></p>

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Your proactive caution is invaluable in protecting your personal information and upholding the security and trustworthiness of our recruitment efforts.</p>

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