Senior Software Engineer, Discovery
- Pay
- $191,000 – $292,000 per year
- Location
- Costa Mesa, CA · On-site
- Job type
- Full-time
- Level
- Senior
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Listed
- 22 days ago
Skills & highlights for this role
- U.S. Secret security clearance
- C++
- Rust
- Go
- Python
- production software ownership
Also useful
- distributed systems
- robotics
- networking
Stated benefits & perks
- Health
About the role
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.
About the Job
This application is for experienced coders with 3-12+ years of experience who will complete live coding interviews and it does not require active clearance but you must be eligible.
As a Software Engineer in Strategic Defense, you will write code side-by-side with elite peers to solve a wide variety of problems involving networking, autonomy, systems integration, robotics, and more. You’ll make pragmatic engineering tradeoffs along the way to ensure Anduril products achieve a variety of desired outcomes in ambiguous situations where more is on the line than money or corporate gains.
By working hand-in-hand with powerhouse teams in AI, Edge Hardware, Space Solutions, Networking, and Test Engineering you will craft cutting-edge, end-to-end systems that redefine mission success for major strategic capabilities.
What You’ll Do
- Own software solutions that are deployed to customers at the edge of innovation and necessity
- Write code to improve robust C2 products and scale mission capabilities to broaden our impact
- Collaborate across multiple engineering teams to plan, build, and test functionality of complex systems
- Partner with end-users to turn needs into features quickly while balancing user experience and engineering constraints
- Travel 10 - 30% with the team to build, test, and deploy capabilities in the real world where they’re needed most
Required Qualifications
- 3-8+ years writing production software in languages like C++, Rust, Go, or Python that real users or systems depend on
- You've owned a feature or service end-to-end including design, implementation, deployment, and dealing with it when it breaks
- You've debugged problems in code you didn't write and systems you didn't design
- You can explain technical tradeoffs to people who aren't software engineers (operators, hardware engineers, customers)
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance
Preferred Qualifications
- A desire to work on critical software that has a real-world impact
- Exposure to robotics, distributed systems, networking, or real-time systems
- Experience with mid and upper tier Air Defense Command and Control (C2) programs
- Have worked where software touches physical hardware
- Experience building software solutions involving significant amounts of data processing and analysis
- Degree in a relevant field like Computer Science, Math, or Physics
- Willing to travel up to 20% to Asia Pacific
Pay and benefits
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 full-time employees, including:
Benefits
- At Anduril, we invest in our people.
- Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next.
- For more information, Explore Our Benefits.
Protecting Yourself from Recruitment Scams
Anduril is committed to maintaining the integrity of our Talent acquisition process and the security of our candidates. We've observed a rise in sophisticated phishing and fraudulent schemes where individuals impersonate Anduril representatives, luring job seekers with false interviews or job offers. These scammers often attempt to extract payment or sensitive personal information.
To ensure your safety and help you navigate your job search with confidence, please keep the following critical points in mind:
- No Financial Requests: Anduril will never solicit payment or demand personal financial details (such as banking information, credit card numbers, or social security numbers) at any stage of our hiring process. Our legitimate recruitment is entirely free for candidates.
- Please always verify communications:
- Direct from Anduril: If you receive an email from one of our recruiters, it will only come from an @anduril.com address.
- Via Agency Partner: If contacted by a recruiting agency for an Anduril role, their email will clearly identify their agency. If you suspect any suspicious activity, please verify the agency's authenticity by reaching out to.
- Exercise Caution with Unsolicited Outreach: If you receive any communication that appears suspicious, contains grammatical errors, or makes unusual requests, do not engage. Always confirm the sender's email domain is @anduril.com before providing any personal information or clicking on links.
- What to Do If You Suspect Fraud: Should you encounter any questionable or fraudulent outreach claiming to be from Anduril, please report it immediately to. Your proactive caution is invaluable in protecting your personal information and upholding the security and trustworthiness of our recruitment efforts.
Data Privacy
By submitting your application, you consent to Anduril Industries using a third-party service provider to conduct pre-employment risk, integrity, and due diligence screening and assessing potential risks as part of your application process.
This third-party service provider provides risk-intelligence services that may include analysis of sanctions and watchlists, adverse media, public-record information, and other lawful open-source or commercial data sources. This third-party service provider does not act as a consumer reporting agency.
Use of this provider helps to ensure compliance with applicable laws and protect technology, intellectual property, and organizational security.
About the Team
The Strategic Defense team at Anduril protects the United States and its allies from ballistic, hypersonic, and air-breathing threats. Those threats now arrive in seconds, maneuver mid-flight, and come in volleys designed to overwhelm the legacy systems meant to stop them — so we're building a software-defined command and control layer that can see, decide, and act faster than any human operator could alone.
Our team spans autonomy, tracking, simulation and wargaming, hardware, systems engineering, and test and evaluation to build an accredited fire control system fielded rapidly and at scale. We are at the forefront of incubating and maturing AI-native offerings for the integrated air and missile defense domain.
From Anduril's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 18, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.
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The Senior Software Engineer, Discovery posting at Anduril states compensation of $191,000 – $292,000 per year. It is listed as a full-time position. Final pay may depend on location, experience, and interview evaluation on Anduril's official career site.
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