Software Engineer, Clearance, Air Defense

Staff Software Engineer, Active Clearance, Air Defense

Irvine, California, United States

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company on 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 real‑time, 3D command and control center.

The Air Defense team builds robots that detect airborne threats and neutralize them. The team develops, tests, deploys, and sustains the Anduril Air Defense Family of Systems in challenging operational environments worldwide.

We are hiring a Staff Software Engineer to join a rapidly growing team in Irvine, CA. You will solve a wide variety of problems involving networking, autonomy, systems integration, robotics, and more, while making pragmatic engineering trade‑offs. Your work will ensure that Anduril products work together to achieve critical outcomes.

• Own the software solutions deployed to customers
• Write code to improve products and scale mission capability to more customers
• Collaborate across teams to plan, build, and test complex functionality
• Create and analyze metrics for debugging and monitoring
• Triage issues, root‑cause failures, and coordinate next steps
• Partner with end‑users to turn needs into features while balancing user experience with engineering constraints
• Travel 30% of the time to build, test, and deploy capabilities in the real world

• Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Computer Engineering
• 10+ years working with a variety of programming languages such as Python, Rust, Go, etc.
• Experience building software solutions involving significant data processing and analysis
• Ability to quickly understand and navigate complex systems and established codebases
• A desire to work on critical software with real‑world impact

• Experience with NixOS
• Developing and testing multi‑agent autonomous systems and deploying in real‑world environments
• Feature and algorithm development with an understanding of behavior trees
• Developing software/hardware for flight systems and safety‑critical functionality
• Distributed communication networks and message standards
• Knowledge of military systems and operational tactics

US Salary Range: $220,000 – $292,000 USD. The salary range is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors. Highly competitive equity grants are included with full‑time offers.

Anduril offers a comprehensive benefits package, including health, recovery, and other employee support.

As set forth in Anduril Industries’ Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.