Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack

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 Air and Ground Deterrence team builds robots that find other robots and knock them out of the sky. At a time when air superiority can no longer be taken for granted, the Air and Ground Deterrence team provides mission critical capabilities to warfighters. From detection to tracking, identification, deterrence, and defeat, our family of networked sensors and effectors enables our customers to rapidly close the kill chain against a broad range of Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) threats.

Working across product, engineering, sales, logistics, operations, and mission success, the Air and Ground Deterrence team develops, tests, deploys, and sustains the Anduril Air Defense Family of Systems (FoS) in challenging operational environments worldwide.

We're looking for a Software Engineer to join our growing team in Irvine, CA. As a Mission Software Engineer on the Air and Ground Deterrence team, you will solve a wide variety of user-facing and system-level problems involving networking, autonomy, systems integration, robotics, and more, while making pragmatic engineering tradeoffs along the way. You'll work closely with product design and cross‑functional teams to deliver full‑stack solutions that align with and advance our mission.

Your efforts will ensure that Anduril products seamlessly integrate and deliver exceptional user experiences while achieving a variety of critical outcomes. Above all, Mission Software Engineers are driven by a “Whatever It Takes” mindset—executing in an expedient, scalable, and pragmatic way while keeping the mission top‑of‑mind and making sound engineering decisions to deliver successful outcomes correctly, on‑time, and with high quality.

• Own feature development and rollout for our products.
• Develop extendable solutions for complex mission sets.
• Build micro‑services to extend the capabilities of our user interface.
• Write code to improve products and scale the mission capability to more customers.
• Quarterback on call issues from remote sites to resolve user facing issues in a timely manner.
• Participate in the full SDLC from concept and design through testing and deployment.
• Travel up to 30% of time to build, test, and deploy capabilities in the real world.

• Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in areas/fields such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or Robotics.
• 5+ years of experience building React applications.
• 5+ years of experience building tools and platforms using Go and other cloud‑native technologies.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

• BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or similar field.
• Strong architectural engineering skills.
• Experience with NixOS.
• Experience with Containerization and Orchestration software such as Docker or Kubernetes.
• Knowledge and experience with control SW.

$191,000 — $253,000 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. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full‑time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package.

Additionally, Anduril offers top‑tier benefits for…