Flight Software Engineer, Surface Maritime

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.

Anduril's Maritime Division is responsible for planning and executing Anduril's product and revenue roadmap for maritime missions. Working across product, engineering, business development, logistics, and operations, the Maritime team develops, tests, deploys, and sustains the Anduril maritime capabilities in a challenging operational environment worldwide.

Anduril’s Surface Maritime Team is seeking a Flight Software Engineer with deep robotics experience to architect, develop, and deliver critical control system interfaces for our autonomy stack. The role of a Flight Software Engineer is pivotal in driving the design, development, testing, and implementation of control software for our maritime systems. Anduril fosters a dynamic learning culture, characterized by accelerated knowledge acquisition through modeling, simulation, analysis, and rigorous and frequent test experimentation.

At Anduril, you will be involved in testing the systems you develop.

The Flight Software Engineer strives to leverage their experience with Vehicle Management Systems to rapidly architect, design, deliver, support, and evolve next generation autonomous vehicles through the entire product life-cycle.

• Design and implement trusted, safety critical Vehicle Management Systems that balance constraints, restrictions and requirements in a multi-stakeholder environment.
• Design and implement scalable vehicle sub-systems including sensor processing, state estimation, contingency management, actuation, payload interfaces, and mission systems interfaces.
• 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.
• Travel up to 25% of time to build, test, and deploy capabilities in the real world

• Bachelor’s degree in Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Engineering, a relevant field, or equivalent experience.
• Experienced and proficient at writing
  
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• 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 learn and grow individually, while mentoring junior team members effectively, contributing to team cohesion and capacity.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

• 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.

US Salary Range

$138,000—$207,000 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.…