Senior IoT Engineer, Applied Intelligence

Santa Ana, California, United States

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.

Maritime Digital Production (MDP) is the software and digital systems function within Anduril's Heavy Metal division. We build and deploy the full technology stack that powers Anduril's shipbuilding factories: the data infrastructure that makes every machine and sensor visible in real time, the manufacturing execution system (ArsenalOS) that workers and planners use every shift, the scheduling engine that replans production in minutes instead of days, and the AI systems that eliminate manual toil from both the shop floor and business operations.

MDP operates at the boundary between Operational Technology and Information Technology. Our systems live where factory-floor machines, edge compute, and OT networks meet enterprise platforms and cloud infrastructure. We incubate solutions close to the production line, validate them with real operators building real hardware, harden them for reliability and security, and then scale them across multiple sites. The environment is fast, physical, and consequential.

When our systems go down, production stops. The output of our work is not a dashboard: it is a ship.

This is not a support function. It is a strategic investment by Anduril in the premise that digitizing the manufacturing lifecycle end-to-end, from engineering definition through scheduling through execution through field feedback, is how Heavy Metal will out-build, out-adapt, and out-scale the traditional defense industrial base. MDP is scaling from a founding team to 70+ engineers across multiple U.S. sites. You will be joining early, working on hard problems with real operational stakes, and shaping how manufacturing software is built at Anduril from the ground up.

As a Senior IoT Engineer on the Applied Intelligence initiative, you will build and deploy the connected sensor infrastructure and edge intelligence systems that power ML pipelines for factory sensing, document processing, and drawing conversion. You will develop IoT-enabled data collection systems that feed computer vision, NLP, and RAG-enabled AI workflows, creating intelligent sensing capabilities across the manufacturing environment.

• Design, build, and deploy IoT sensor networks and edge devices that capture real-time factory data for ML pipelines including computer vision systems, document processing, and production monitoring.
• Develop edge intelligence systems that run ML inference locally on IoT devices and edge compute for real-time factory sensing, quality inspection, and anomaly detection.
• Partner with manufacturing engineers and factory operators to understand production workflows and translate them into IoT sensing and data collection requirements.
• Write production-quality code with comprehensive tests, participating in code review and architectural discussions.
• Implement secure, scalable IoT communication architectures using industrial protocols (MQTT, AMQP, OPC-UA, Sparkplug
  
  B) to transmit sensor data to cloud and edge ML pipelines.
• Build data ingestion pipelines that connect IoT sensors, cameras, and edge devices to ML model serving infrastructure for computer vision, document extraction, and NLP applications.
• Design and implement edge compute architectures that support on-device ML inference, local data processing, and intermittent connectivity scenarios in factory environments.
• Deploy and operate your systems in factory environments,…