Senior Embedded Linux Engineer

Costa Mesa, California, United States;
Seattle, Washington, 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.

The Tactical Recon & Strike team at Anduril develops aerial small drones (Group 1-3) and all equipment to test, deploy and operate. The team is responsible for taking products like Ghost, Anvil, Bolt and Altius from concepts to operational systems. We work in close coordination with specialist teams to solve some of the hardest problems facing our customers. We are looking for software engineers, hardware engineers, roboticists, and front-end mobile developers who are excited about creating a powerful robotics platform that can be tasked and viewed in real-time through a variety of interfaces.

• Board bring-up and maintenance on embedded ARM boards (device trees, bootloaders, kernel drivers, etc)
• Customize vendor BSPs for use with NixOS systems
• Help secure our embedded Linux systems
• Closely collaborate with firmware engineers on low-level protocols and software updates to microcontrollers.
• Develop platform software for rapid and reliable updates of mass-produced military-grade systems.

• Familiarity with triaging vulnerability reports and mitigating vulnerabilities by patching system components.
• Experience with Linux kernel development
• Experience with uboot, EDK2, platform firmware, etc
• Interest in using Nix/NixOS as an alternative to Yocto, buildroot, etc
• Experience with C or Rust
• Familiarity with MCU basics, RTOS, and MCU-level interfaces.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

• Experience developing embedded Linux systems using Yocto, buildroot, or similar systems
• Familiarity with packaging CUDA libraries and applications
• Familiarity with functional programming paradigms
• Experience with one or more of the following languages: C++, Python

$220,000 - $292,000 USD

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