Software Engineer, Simulation

The Air Defense 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 Defense 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 Defense team develops, tests, deploys, and sustains the Anduril Air Defense Family of Systems (FoS) in challenging operational environments worldwide.
ABOUT THE JOB
As a Software Engineer, you will solve a wide variety of problems involving networking, autonomy, systems integration, robotics, and most notably sim, 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, 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.
To date, capability groups within Air Defense have been largely left to their own devices when it comes to simulation capabilities. This means existing solutions have been team-specific, non-standard, and do not capture the full impact across our Family of Systems. Further, these systems do not have a common architecture or path to converge and provide insights to higher-level mission impacts across groups of assets. This convergence is also required for many initiatives - for example, to achieve representative analysis of system-level performance within Classified computing environments, a major ask from multiple partner entities. Now, we are in search of a Software Engineer that can help lay out and execute a vision for shared simulation and SITL development roadmap across the capability groups within our broad Family of Systems.
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.

CORE REQUIREMENTS

• Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in areas/fields such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics.
• 4+ years working with a variety of programming languages such as C++, Rust, Go, Typescript, etc.
• Experience building software solutions involving significant amounts of data processing and 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.

DESIRED REQUIREMENTS

• 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.
• Eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. TS clearance.