Software Engineer, Strategic Defense

Anduril Industries · Costa Mesa, California, United States

  • Junior
  • Full-time
  • $166,000 – $220,000
  • Posted 2026-09-24
  • Confirmed live on 25 September 2026

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Job description

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 TEAM

Strategic Defense 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.

ABOUT THE JOB

We're seeking a Software Engineer to join our rapidly growing team in Irvine, CA or Huntsville, AL. As a Software Engineer on the Strategic Defense team, you will solve a wide variety of problems involving networking, autonomy, systems integration, robotics, and more, while making pragmatic engineering tradeoffs along the way. Your efforts will ensure that Anduril products seamlessly work together to achieve a variety of critical outcomes. Above all, 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. This role will focus on the Guam Defense System Battle Manager product. Experience with mid and upper tier Air Defense Command and Control programs is a plus. You will be helping to create a new strategic business line and will work closely with the other strategic Command and Control programs within Anduril.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Own the software solutions that are deployed to customers

• Write code to improve products and scale the mission capability to more customers

• Collaborate across multiple teams to plan, build, and test complex functionality

• Create and analyze metrics that are leveraged 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 up to 30% of time to build, test, and deploy capabilities in the real world

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in areas/fields such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics

• 3+ years working with a variety of programming languages such as Python, C++, Rust, Go, JavaScript, etc.

• Experience building software solutions involving significant amounts of data processingand analysis

• Ability to quickly understand and navigate complex systems and established code bases

• A desire to work on critical software that has a real-world impact

• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Strong background with focus in Physics, Mathematics, and/or Motion Planning to inform modeling & simulation (M&S) and physical systems

• 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

• Experience working with mid and upper tier Air Defense systems in the Army, Navy, Air Force or the Missile Defense Agency

US Salary Range
$166,000—$220,000 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 full-time employees, including:

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