Team Overview

The Platform Security Engineering (PSE) team builds security into Anduril's products from architecture through production. We work directly with business lines to design and implement security solutions tailored to their systems — then promote proven patterns into shared, composable platform services that the entire organization can use. Our mission is threefold: build security solutions for business lines, promote those solutions into the platform, and enable teams to build and operate securely on their own. The scope includes cryptographic protocol design, hardware root-of-trust architectures, secure communication for autonomous and robotic systems, operating system hardening, and distributed security infrastructure across embedded, edge, and cloud environments.

Job Description

We're looking for a principal-level engineer to serve as a technical leader for platform security across Anduril. This role combines deep expertise in cryptography, systems security, and secure architecture with the ability to drive security strategy across business lines and the platform. You'll own the design of Anduril's most critical security systems — cryptographic infrastructure for autonomous platforms, hardware root-of-trust architectures for robotic systems, secure communication protocols for contested environments — and you'll set the technical direction that shapes how security is built into every product. This is a role for someone who has designed and shipped security systems at the intersection of hardware, firmware, and software, and can lead others through complex technical decisions with lasting consequences.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the technical vision and architecture for platform security across Anduril's product ecosystem
• Design cryptographic systems, protocols, and key management architectures for autonomous and robotic platforms operating in contested and disconnected environments
• Lead the design of hardware root-of-trust architectures integrating TPMs, TEEs, HSMs, and secure boot across diverse embedded platforms
• Drive the strategy for promoting business-line security implementations into shared, composable platform services
• Serve as the senior technical authority for security architecture reviews across the organization, providing definitive guidance on cryptographic design, protocol security, and system hardening
• Define security patterns, reference architectures, and engineering standards that enable teams across Anduril to build securely and independently
• Mentor and develop senior engineers on the team, raising the bar for security engineering across the organization
• Represent Anduril's security engineering capabilities to customers, partners, and auditors when deep technical credibility is required
• Evaluate emerging threats, cryptographic standards, and security technologies, driving adoption where they strengthen the platform

Required Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in software engineering, with significant depth in systems security and cryptography
• Expert-level knowledge of cryptographic protocol design, including key management architectures, certificate systems, and cryptographic agility
• Deep experience with hardware security: TPM, TEE, HSM, secure boot, and hardware root-of-trust design across multiple platform types
• Proficient in two or more of: C++, Rust, Go
• Experience designing security architectures for embedded, real-time, or robotic systems with constrained environments
• Track record of leading cross-organizational technical initiatives and driving architectural decisions that span multiple teams
• Strong ability to communicate complex security concepts to engineering leadership, product teams, and external stakeholders
• Experience performing and leading threat modeling, security architecture reviews, and cryptographic design reviews
• Eligible to obtain and maintain active U.S. Secret security clearance

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with post-quantum cryptography, distributed key generation (DKG), or threshold cryptographic schemes
• Background in defense, aerospace, or autonomous systems with exposure to FIPS 140, Common Criteria, or NSA CSfC requirements
• Experience designing secure communication protocols for autonomous platforms or mesh networks
• Deep knowledge of Linux kernel security, mandatory access controls (SELinux/AppArmor), and OS hardening at scale
• Experience building and evolving platform security services consumed by dozens of teams
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks (STIGs, NIST 800-53, CMMC) and translating them into engineering controls that don't compromise developer velocity
• Publications, patents, or recognized contributions in cryptography or systems security
• Experience with Nix build systems and reproducible build pipelines for security-critical software

ABOUT THE TEAM

Our team builds software that beautifully visualizes both real and simulated data that can be historical or live. It lets users create “what ifs” to evaluate mission concepts and is often used for Business Development and Engineering purposes. It also acts as the visual client for our Mission Simulation product.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Partner with stakeholders to establish clear priorities and define expectations, which translate to a scope of work that you and the team can deliver
• Identify technical risks and their solutions, collaborating with the broader engineering groups at Anduril
• Ensure client stability by diagnosing and resolving defects
• Analyze and optimize both memory and performance in systems that have to scale from high-end desktops to mobile AR systems
• Identify problems and solve them, while implementing robust, high-quality solutions

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Excellent C++ skills and software engineering principles
• Experience working in large codebases to solve complex problems
• Minimum five years of professional programming experience
• Solid understanding of 3D math
• Ability to write clean, maintainable and extensible code with attention to reusability
• Experience in a broad range of engineering areas on shipping games or real time visualization systems, with special attention given to low-level code
• Excellent spoken and written communication
• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret security clearance

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Linux development experience
• Experience developing on console platforms
• Shipped at least one AAA game title in a similar role

Team Overview

The Security Applications & Tools (SAT) team within Lattice Platform Security builds custom software systems that detect, manage, and remediate vulnerabilities across Anduril's product ecosystem at scale. We don't just deploy scanners — we design and build distributed scanning infrastructure, policy enforcement engines, and vulnerability management platforms from the ground up. Our stack includes event-driven architectures on AWS, custom Go services, policy-as-code systems, and integrations that span CI pipelines to production environments.

Job Description

We're looking for a senior software engineer to design and build the systems that keep Anduril's software secure. This is a software engineering role first — you'll architect distributed systems, write production Go and Python, build APIs, and operate services at scale. The domain is security, but the work is building real software: custom scanning orchestration pipelines, policy engines that evaluate thousands of configurations against security rules, and data systems that track vulnerabilities across an entire product ecosystem. If you want to write code that solves hard engineering problems in the security space rather than configure off-the-shelf tools, this is the role.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and build distributed services for vulnerability scanning, policy enforcement, and remediation workflows
• Develop and extend the team's scanning orchestration platform — an event-driven architecture built on AWS (SQS, Lambda, S3, ECR) that processes scan events at org-wide scale
• Build and maintain policy-as-code systems that programmatically enforce security policy in CI/CD pipelines and deployment configurations
• Design APIs and CLIs that integrate security tooling into developer workflows without creating friction
• Develop data pipelines that aggregate, normalize, and route findings from multiple scanning engines into vulnerability management systems
• Collaborate with engineering teams across Anduril to understand their security needs and build tooling that addresses them
• Evaluate third-party security tools and build custom integrations or replacements where needed
• Participate in on-call rotation for security tooling infrastructure

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience designing and developing production software systems
• Strong proficiency in Go — this is the team's primary language for backend services
• Experience building distributed systems or data pipelines (event-driven architectures, message queues, APIs, worker systems)
• Proficiency with Python for scripting, automation, and tooling
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred: Lambda, SQS, S3, ECR, or equivalent)
• Ability to read and understand security tool output (vulnerability reports, SBOMs, static analysis results) and build systems around it
• Strong communication skills with the ability to work across teams
• Eligible to obtain and maintain active U.S. Secret security clearance

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with CI/CD systems (CircleCI, GitHub Actions) and building integrations for developer workflows
• Familiarity with container security concepts, SBOM generation tools (Syft), and vulnerability scanners (Trivy, Grype, Semgrep)
• Experience with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code
• Experience with policy-as-code frameworks (OPA/Rego, Conftest)
• Background in application security or product security engineering
• Experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration
• Familiarity with Nix build systems

ABOUT THE TEAM

The centralized Software Product Design & Research team serves as the connective tissue across Anduril’s ecosystem of software experiences – ensuring that products and workflows scale thoughtfully across platforms, mission types, and domains. As a Product Designer, you will own the entire lifecycle of design working closely with cross-functional partners through discovery, ideation, validation, and delivery. You will work alongside a team of designers and researchers while developing a deep understanding of Anduril customers, and design solutions to support highly technical and complex scenarios. You will have an immediate impact on real-world operations as you design novel interactions that explore the boundaries of human-to-machine control. We are changing the way our military works – from strategic commanders to forward-deployed operators working responsibly with autonomous systems.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Drive the end-to-end user experience for platform, internal R&D, or vertical product investments; proactively balancing near-term experiments with long-term strategy & vision.
• Shape how product design integrates with engineering & product management through close collaboration, iterative prototyping, and hands-on implementation guidance.
• Lead the definition of high-impact product experiences. From problem decomposition and discovery to defining experience requirements, crafting workflows, and delivery high-fidelity designs.
• Engage with end users and facilitate collaborative workshops with stakeholders to align on user needs, generate ideas, and define concepts or experiments.
• Ensure your work is easy to follow through strong narrative skills, journey maps, user workflows, high fidelity mockups, and documentation rigor.
• Mentor and elevate design peers, contribute in design critiques, champion knowledge sharing, and model productive cross-functional collaboration.
• Partner with our design systems team to evolve the underlying platform through your work at the edge.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years of experience in product design, UX, or HCI, with a proven ability to execute high-craft, technically informed solutions.
• Deep expertise in visual and interaction design, with the ability to craft elegant solutions for complex workflows.
• Systems thinking mindset, capable of mapping workflows across multiple user types and operational contexts.
• Strong prototyping skills to drive clarity in decision-making.
• Ability to communicate the “why” behind design decisions; work demonstrating having navigating complex stakeholder requirements across engineering, product, and business teams.
• Portfolio demonstrating high attention to craft and interaction details.
• No prior defense experience necessary – we are looking for designers who can bring diverse perspectives to hard problems.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience leading user research sessions including customer discovery, usability testing, and synthesis of complex feedback loops.
• Facilitation skills to lead workshops, guide cross-functional alignment, and strategic decision-making.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity with a proactive approach to problem-solving in mission-critical, time-sensitive environments.
• Familiarity with designing for constrained or high-stakes / safety critical environments (e.g., industrial, aerospace, or defense systems).
• Demonstrated leadership in scaling design operations, mentorship, and improving team efficiency.
• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. TS clearance.

ABOUT THE TEAM:

The Developer Platform team builds the tools and infrastructure that power software development at Anduril. We own the company's primary developer CLI (2,300+ engineers, 93k+ invocations), CI/CD pipelines serving 3,500+ engineers across 23 product lines in the US, Australia, and UK, deployment and release management systems, and Anduril's LLM adoption platform. We are standing up a new agentic development initiative to build the next generation of AI-powered developer infrastructure. The team is growing fast and this is a ground-floor opportunity to define what agentic software development looks like at a company building mission-critical defense systems.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

• Build multi-agent orchestration infrastructure that moves AI coding agents from individual developer machines to servers executing work autonomously across repositories at company scale
• Design and implement an agent-optimized, real-time knowledge base that gives AI agents deep context on codebases, architecture, and operational patterns
• Build a skills and plugin platform that lets any team encode their domain knowledge into reusable AI capabilities
• Improve CI/CD reliability and developer experience across 23 product lines
• Create release tooling that simplifies shipping software to production environments and robotic platforms
• Operate and evolve Anduril's LLM adoption platform: model rollouts, capacity management, cost attribution, and developer onboarding

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Strong software engineering fundamentals in one or more of: Go, Python, TypeScript
• An entrepreneur, builder, PM, and designer rolled into one. We need people with outstanding software taste who can identify the right problem, design the solution, build it, and ship it in days, not quarters.
• A passion for developer tooling. You notice friction in your own workflow and cannot help but fix it. You spend 4 hours sharpening the axe and 30 minutes chopping wood.
• Demonstrated ability to quickly learn and adapt to unfamiliar technologies across multiple domains
• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience building developer tools, CLIs, CI/CD systems, or platform infrastructure
• Experience with Kubernetes, Nix, or cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure)
• Genuine interest in LLMs and agentic systems as applied to developer productivity. If you are already building with AI coding agents in your daily workflow, you will feel right at home.
• Prior work on LLM integrations, prompt engineering, or agent frameworks

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Lattice Platform is dedicated to building a comprehensive, integrated platform that enables efficient data management, task orchestration, and system-wide interoperability. Lattice, the foundation for everything we do as a defense technology company, consists of talented and hard-working engineers who are motivated to see their work rapidly deployed on the front lines. Unlike teams building experimental systems, we deploy our solutions in real-world environments. Our work spans core infrastructure, distributed systems, web development, networking, and other critical areas that form the backbone of Anduril's defense technology ecosystem. By combining these diverse, yet interconnected areas of expertise, we aim to create a powerful, scalable ecosystem that supports autonomous robots, data-driven decision-making, and innovative applications across all war-fighting domains. Our ultimate goal is to deliver a cohesive software infrastructure that drives technological advancement and operational efficiency for Anduril.

ABOUT THE JOB

We are looking for multiple Senior Software Engineers to join our rapidly growing platform team. In this role, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining the foundational systems that power Anduril's defense technology products. You will build infrastructure, platform services, and integration components that enable our entire engineering organization to operate efficiently at scale. This will require expertise in various programming languages, system architecture, and collaborative problem-solving. If you are someone who is self-motivated, holds yourself to high standards, and thrives in a low-structure, high-autonomy environment, then this role is for you.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Design and implement core infrastructure components that support Anduril's defense technology applications
• Develop platform services that enable other software engineers to scale their output
• Work with simulation, data management, compute infrastructure, and networking technologies
• Collaborate with customers to deliver novel software capabilities
• Partner with team members in the autonomy domain to create technologies and processes
• Enable users to safely and rapidly develop and deploy autonomous systems at scale
• Participate in technical design reviews and architecture discussions
• Implement robust monitoring, logging, and data management solutions

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 7+ years working in an engineering environment: a startup (or startup-like environment), engineering school, etc.
• 5+ years working with a variety of programming languages such as Go, C++, Rust, Python, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, etc.
• Experience designing, developing, and integrating software for infra, cloud, web, autonomy, robotic applications
• Demonstrated ability to build platform and infrastructure tooling
• Experience working with customers to deliver novel software capabilities
• Strong collaboration skills, particularly in the autonomy domain
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience building or inventing something: an app, a website, game, or startup
• Professional software development lifecycle experience using tools such as version control, CI/CD systems, etc.
• Experience building scalable backend software systems with various data storage and processing requirements
• Deep understanding of how computers and networks work, from a single desktop to a multi-cluster cloud node
• Experience with industry standard cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), CI/CD tools, and software infrastructure fundamentals
• Ability to quickly understand and navigate complex systems and established code bases
• Experience implementing robot or autonomous vehicle testing frameworks in HITL environments
• Experience with modern build and deployment tooling (e.g., NixOS, Terraform)
• Experience designing complex software systems and iterating upon designs via technical design reviews
• Familiarity with industry standard monitoring, logging, and data management tools and best practices
• A bias towards rapid delivery and iteration

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Lattice Platform is dedicated to building a comprehensive, integrated platform that enables efficient data management, task orchestration, and system-wide interoperability. Lattice, the foundation for everything we do as a defense technology company, consists of talented and hard-working engineers who are motivated to see their work rapidly deployed on the front lines. Unlike teams building experimental systems, we deploy our solutions in real-world environments. Our work spans core infrastructure, distributed systems, web development, networking, and other critical areas that form the backbone of Anduril's defense technology ecosystem. By combining these diverse, yet interconnected areas of expertise, we aim to create a powerful, scalable ecosystem that supports autonomous robots, data-driven decision-making, and innovative applications across all war-fighting domains. Our ultimate goal is to deliver a cohesive software infrastructure that drives technological advancement and operational efficiency for Anduril.

ABOUT THE JOB

We are looking for multiple Senior Software Engineers to join our rapidly growing platform team. In this role, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining the foundational systems that power Anduril's defense technology products. You will build infrastructure, platform services, and integration components that enable our entire engineering organization to operate efficiently at scale. This will require expertise in various programming languages, system architecture, and collaborative problem-solving. If you are someone who is self-motivated, holds yourself to high standards, and thrives in a low-structure, high-autonomy environment, then this role is for you.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Design and implement core infrastructure components that support Anduril's defense technology applications
• Develop platform services that enable other software engineers to scale their output
• Work with simulation, data management, compute infrastructure, and networking technologies
• Collaborate with customers to deliver novel software capabilities
• Partner with team members in the autonomy domain to create technologies and processes
• Enable users to safely and rapidly develop and deploy autonomous systems at scale
• Participate in technical design reviews and architecture discussions
• Implement robust monitoring, logging, and data management solutions

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 7+ years working in an engineering environment: a startup (or startup-like environment), engineering school, etc.
• 5+ years working with a variety of programming languages such as Go, C++, Rust, Python, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, etc.
• Experience designing, developing, and integrating software for infra, cloud, web, autonomy, robotic applications
• Demonstrated ability to build platform and infrastructure tooling
• Experience working with customers to deliver novel software capabilities
• Strong collaboration skills, particularly in the autonomy domain
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience building or inventing something: an app, a website, game, or startup
• Professional software development lifecycle experience using tools such as version control, CI/CD systems, etc.
• Experience building scalable backend software systems with various data storage and processing requirements
• Deep understanding of how computers and networks work, from a single desktop to a multi-cluster cloud node
• Experience with industry standard cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), CI/CD tools, and software infrastructure fundamentals
• Ability to quickly understand and navigate complex systems and established code bases
• Experience implementing robot or autonomous vehicle testing frameworks in HITL environments
• Experience with modern build and deployment tooling (e.g., NixOS, Terraform)
• Experience designing complex software systems and iterating upon designs via technical design reviews
• Familiarity with industry standard monitoring, logging, and data management tools and best practices
• A bias towards rapid delivery and iteration

ABOUT THE JOB

We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer to design, improve, and maintain the core package set which supports software distribution throughout Anduril. This involves creating internal tooling, establishing standards, planning architectural changes, and supporting users of the package set. You are expected to provide expertise for the usage of Nix at a large scale and assist in training other engineers. You should be capable of operating autonomously with limited oversight in a complex environment, and have the ability to break down intricate problems into simple solutions.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Maintain an internal package set in order to enable software distribution across the company for development, hosted services, and embedded devices
• Package open-source and proprietary software components using Nix
• Improve developer ergonomics by defining Nix usage standards, creating tooling support, and integrating with developer workflows
• Provide assistance, training, and mentorship to other team members

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Proficiency with Nix, Nixpkgs, NixOS, and functional programming generally
• Deep understanding of how build systems and packaging ecosystems work
• Ability to dive into large and complicated systems, and use Nix to improve them
• Experience with one or more of the following languages: Rust, C++, Go, Python, Haskell
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with managing cloud computing resources (eg: AWS)
• Experience with modern build and deployment tooling, and continuous integration (e.g. NixOS, Terraform)
• Experience designing complex software systems, and iterating upon designs via a technical design review process
• Familiarity with industry standard monitoring, logging, and data management tools and best practices
• A bias towards rapid delivery and iteration

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Developer Platform team serves as the backbone of Anduril's engineering ecosystem, building critical infrastructure that enables teams to deliver mission-critical defense systems. On this team you would optimize release pipelines and CI/CD workflows powering Anduril's Software Factories across the US, Australia, and UK. You'll develop productivity-enhancing tools like our Golang-based dx CLI and architect data infrastructure for actionable engineering metrics and KPIs. Your work will directly impact the productivity across the entire software engineering ecosystem, creating a foundation that scales with Anduril's growth and supports its mission of solving critical defense challenges through advanced technology.

WHAT YOU’ll DO

• Lead engineering efforts across release systems, developer tooling, and the broader Anduril Software Factory to optimize release pipelines and development workflows.
• Architect scalable AI-powered automation solutions that increase developer productivity while maintaining the highest standards of quality and security for mission-critical defense systems.
• Design and implement robust data infrastructure to effectively instrument our diverse business lines
• Partner with Heads of Mission Engineering to define and track critical KPIs that drive strategic decision-making

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years in an engineering setting, with platform engineering experience and a deep understanding of development workflows. You have experience working on developer tools, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation, preferably in environments that reward initiative, creativity, and independent problem-solving with a demonstrable track record of maintaining complex software systems.
• Strong Golang chops needed to create integrations with other Anduril services, and improve our popular dx tool
• Strong Python experience for creating, analyzing, and visualizing complex datasets in Palantir’s Foundry product
• Demonstrated ability to quickly learn and adapt to unfamiliar technologies across multiple domains
• Self-directed, entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to identify opportunities and craft innovative solutions. The roadmap is ours to create and execute on.
• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Exceptional systems thinking with meticulous attention to detail, outstanding communication, and project management skills
• Proficiency with TypeScript/React for developing lightweight UI solutions
• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field
• Proven track record in fast-paced startup environments

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Developer Platform team serves as the backbone of Anduril's engineering ecosystem, building critical infrastructure that enables teams to deliver mission-critical defense systems. On this team you would optimize release pipelines and CI/CD workflows powering Anduril's Software Factories across the US, Australia, and UK. You'll develop productivity-enhancing tools like our Golang-based dx CLI and architect data infrastructure for actionable engineering metrics and KPIs. Your work will directly impact the productivity across the entire software engineering ecosystem, creating a foundation that scales with Anduril's growth and supports its mission of solving critical defense challenges through advanced technology.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Lead engineering efforts across release systems, developer tooling, and the broader Anduril Software Factory to optimize release pipelines and development workflows.
• Architect scalable AI-powered automation solutions that increase developer productivity while maintaining the highest standards of quality and security for mission-critical defense systems.
• Design and implement robust data infrastructure to effectively instrument our diverse business lines
• Partner with Heads of Mission Engineering to define and track critical KPIs that drive strategic decision-making

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years in an engineering setting, with platform engineering experience and a deep understanding of development workflows. You have experience working on developer tools, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation, preferably in environments that reward initiative, creativity, and independent problem-solving with a demonstrable track record of maintaining complex software systems.
• Strong Golang chops needed to create integrations with other Anduril services, and improve our popular dx tool
• Strong Python experience for creating, analyzing, and visualizing complex datasets in Palantir’s Foundry product
• Demonstrated ability to quickly learn and adapt to unfamiliar technologies across multiple domains
• Self-directed, entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to identify opportunities and craft innovative solutions. The roadmap is ours to create and execute on.
• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Exceptional systems thinking with meticulous attention to detail, outstanding communication, and project management skills
• Proficiency with TypeScript/React for developing lightweight UI solutions
• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field
• Proven track record in fast-paced startup environments

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Lattice Platform is dedicated to building a comprehensive, integrated platform that enables efficient data management, task orchestration, and system-wide interoperability. Lattice, the foundation for everything we do as a defense technology company, consists of talented and hard-working engineers who are motivated to see their work rapidly deployed on the front lines. Unlike teams building experimental systems, we deploy our solutions in real-world environments. Our work spans core infrastructure, distributed systems, web development, networking, and other critical areas that form the backbone of Anduril's defense technology ecosystem. By combining these diverse, yet interconnected areas of expertise, we aim to create a powerful, scalable ecosystem that supports autonomous robots, data-driven decision-making, and innovative applications across all war-fighting domains. Our ultimate goal is to deliver a cohesive software infrastructure that drives technological advancement and operational efficiency for Anduril.

ABOUT THE JOB

We are looking for multiple Senior Software Engineers to join our rapidly growing platform team. In this role, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining the foundational systems that power Anduril's defense technology products. You will build infrastructure, platform services, and integration components that enable our entire engineering organization to operate efficiently at scale. This will require expertise in various programming languages, system architecture, and collaborative problem-solving. If you are someone who is self-motivated, holds yourself to high standards, and thrives in a low-structure, high-autonomy environment, then this role is for you.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Design and implement core infrastructure components that support Anduril's defense technology applications
• Develop platform services that enable other software engineers to scale their output
• Work with simulation, data management, compute infrastructure, and networking technologies
• Collaborate with customers to deliver novel software capabilities
• Partner with team members in the autonomy domain to create technologies and processes
• Enable users to safely and rapidly develop and deploy autonomous systems at scale
• Participate in technical design reviews and architecture discussions
• Implement robust monitoring, logging, and data management solutions

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 7+ years working in an engineering environment: a startup (or startup-like environment), engineering school, etc.
• 5+ years working with a variety of programming languages such as Go, C++, Rust, Python, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, etc.
• Experience designing, developing, and integrating software for infra, cloud, web, autonomy, robotic applications
• Demonstrated ability to build platform and infrastructure tooling
• Experience working with customers to deliver novel software capabilities
• Strong collaboration skills, particularly in the autonomy domain
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience building or inventing something: an app, a website, game, or startup
• Professional software development lifecycle experience using tools such as version control, CI/CD systems, etc.
• Experience building scalable backend software systems with various data storage and processing requirements
• Deep understanding of how computers and networks work, from a single desktop to a multi-cluster cloud node
• Experience with industry standard cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), CI/CD tools, and software infrastructure fundamentals
• Ability to quickly understand and navigate complex systems and established code bases
• Experience implementing robot or autonomous vehicle testing frameworks in HITL environments
• Experience with modern build and deployment tooling (e.g., NixOS, Terraform)
• Experience designing complex software systems and iterating upon designs via technical design reviews
• Familiarity with industry standard monitoring, logging, and data management tools and best practices
• A bias towards rapid delivery and iteration

ABOUT THE JOB

We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer to design, improve, and maintain the core package set which supports software distribution throughout Anduril. This involves creating internal tooling, establishing standards, planning architectural changes, and supporting users of the package set. You are expected to provide expertise for the usage of Nix at a large scale and assist in training other engineers. You should be capable of operating autonomously with limited oversight in a complex environment, and have the ability to break down intricate problems into simple solutions.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Maintain an internal package set in order to enable software distribution across the company for development, hosted services, and embedded devices
• Package open-source and proprietary software components using Nix
• Improve developer ergonomics by defining Nix usage standards, creating tooling support, and integrating with developer workflows
• Provide assistance, training, and mentorship to other team members

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Proficiency with Nix, Nixpkgs, NixOS, and functional programming generally
• Deep understanding of how build systems and packaging ecosystems work
• Ability to dive into large and complicated systems, and use Nix to improve them
• Experience with one or more of the following languages: Rust, C++, Go, Python, Haskell
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with managing cloud computing resources (eg: AWS)
• Experience with modern build and deployment tooling, and continuous integration (e.g. NixOS, Terraform)
• Experience designing complex software systems, and iterating upon designs via a technical design review process
• Familiarity with industry standard monitoring, logging, and data management tools and best practices
• A bias towards rapid delivery and iteration

ABOUT THE JOB

We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer to design, improve, and maintain the core package set which supports software distribution throughout Anduril. This involves creating internal tooling, establishing standards, planning architectural changes, and supporting users of the package set. You are expected to provide expertise for the usage of Nix at a large scale and assist in training other engineers. You should be capable of operating autonomously with limited oversight in a complex environment, and have the ability to break down intricate problems into simple solutions.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Maintain an internal package set in order to enable software distribution across the company for development, hosted services, and embedded devices
• Package open-source and proprietary software components using Nix
• Improve developer ergonomics by defining Nix usage standards, creating tooling support, and integrating with developer workflows
• Provide assistance, training, and mentorship to other team members

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Proficiency with Nix, Nixpkgs, NixOS, and functional programming generally
• Deep understanding of how build systems and packaging ecosystems work
• Ability to dive into large and complicated systems, and use Nix to improve them
• Experience with one or more of the following languages: Rust, C++, Go, Python, Haskell
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with managing cloud computing resources (eg: AWS)
• Experience with modern build and deployment tooling, and continuous integration (e.g. NixOS, Terraform)
• Experience designing complex software systems, and iterating upon designs via a technical design review process
• Familiarity with industry standard monitoring, logging, and data management tools and best practices
• A bias towards rapid delivery and iteration

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Developer Platform team serves as the backbone of Anduril's engineering ecosystem, building critical infrastructure that enables teams to deliver mission-critical defense systems. On this team you would optimize release pipelines and CI/CD workflows powering Anduril's Software Factories across the US, Australia, and UK. You'll develop productivity-enhancing tools like our Golang-based dx CLI and architect data infrastructure for actionable engineering metrics and KPIs. Your work will directly impact the productivity across the entire software engineering ecosystem, creating a foundation that scales with Anduril's growth and supports its mission of solving critical defense challenges through advanced technology.

WHAT YOU’ll DO

• Lead engineering efforts across release systems, developer tooling, and the broader Anduril Software Factory to optimize release pipelines and development workflows.
• Architect scalable AI-powered automation solutions that increase developer productivity while maintaining the highest standards of quality and security for mission-critical defense systems.
• Design and implement robust data infrastructure to effectively instrument our diverse business lines
• Partner with Heads of Mission Engineering to define and track critical KPIs that drive strategic decision-making

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years in an engineering setting, with platform engineering experience and a deep understanding of development workflows. You have experience working on developer tools, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation, preferably in environments that reward initiative, creativity, and independent problem-solving with a demonstrable track record of maintaining complex software systems.
• Strong Golang chops needed to create integrations with other Anduril services, and improve our popular dx tool
• Strong Python experience for creating, analyzing, and visualizing complex datasets in Palantir’s Foundry product
• Demonstrated ability to quickly learn and adapt to unfamiliar technologies across multiple domains
• Self-directed, entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to identify opportunities and craft innovative solutions. The roadmap is ours to create and execute on.
• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Exceptional systems thinking with meticulous attention to detail, outstanding communication, and project management skills
• Proficiency with TypeScript/React for developing lightweight UI solutions
• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field
• Proven track record in fast-paced startup environments

OUR TEAM:

Anduril's Software Platform builds the integrated platform behind Lattice — enabling data management, task orchestration, and interoperability across Anduril's product ecosystem. Our engineers ship to the front lines, not to a lab. Unlike experimental systems, our software is deployed and operating in real-world environments today.

Our work spans core infrastructure, distributed systems, web development, networking, and other critical areas that form the backbone of Anduril's technology stack. Together, these disciplines power a scalable platform supporting autonomous systems, real-time decision-making, and applications across all warfighting domains.

We are looking for a Technical Program Manager to drive strategic, cross-functional programs across Software Platform. You will own programs end-to-end — aligning engineering, product, and business stakeholders, driving clarity through ambiguity, and ensuring technical outcomes ship on time. This role requires both technical depth and organizational leadership: you'll translate complex engineering efforts into actionable plans, surface risks early, and hold teams accountable.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Help define and execute the roadmap for SWP, working across groups to de-risk dependencies and keep teams aligned on what ships when
• Autonomously execute with a high degree of ownership on broad requirements, managing stakeholders across the Software Platform organization, Business Lines and other company partners simultaneously and delivering successful outcomes
• Manage, unblock, and accelerate cross-team projects spanning multiple functional teams and cross-functional initiatives. Instill an efficient project management mindset and workflow across the teams
• Collaborate with product leads to scope, staff, and deliver capabilities that achieve company milestones, while supporting leads with staffing plans and prioritization
• Help define and serve as the Software Platform champion for our program management standards, tools, processes and mechanisms
• Track and communicate program progress, defining efficient processes for broader status updates and proactively managing issues and obstacles. Clearly communicate across all stakeholders, ensuring the dependencies and blockers made clear, and tracked and acted on consistently
• Stand up and maintain SWP-wide KPIs that give leadership real signal on progress, health, and bottlenecks
• Understand technical implementation at the architectural level, propose alternatives when necessary. Corral key performance indicators from across the business to help shape future organizational investments

 REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• 12-15+ years experience as a TPM in a high-paced, software development environment.
• Robust technical aptitude and an ability to understand technical designs, software development lifecycle, challenges, trade-offs and risks; ability to work closely and effectively with engineering teams.
• Strong experience and familiarity in project management for software development; practical familiarity with a variety of methodologies and ability to apply them where best suited.
• Experience with tools like JIRA and Confluence as well as understanding of Agile and waterfall methodologies.
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to use data and metrics to back up assumptions, recommendations and drive decisions.
• Experience is rolling out wide-ranging organizational process changes
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Top Secret clearance

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience in building programs for software deliverables from ground up
• Ability to work within organizations with minimal structure and with minimal direction
• Professional certifications such as CISSP, OSCP, GIAC-PEN, Prosci, SAFe or PMP
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or an engineering discipline

ABOUT THE TEAM

Our team builds software that beautifully visualizes both real and simulated data that can be historical or live. It lets users create “what ifs” to evaluate mission concepts and is often used for Business Development and Engineering purposes. It also acts as the visual client for our Mission Simulation product.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Partner with stakeholders to establish clear priorities and define expectations, which translate to a scope of work that you and the team can deliver
• Identify technical risks and their solutions, collaborating with the broader engineering groups at Anduril
• Ensure client stability by diagnosing and resolving defects
• Analyze and optimize both memory and performance in systems that have to scale from high-end desktops to mobile AR systems
• Identify problems and solve them, while implementing robust, high-quality solutions

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Excellent C++ skills and software engineering principles
• Experience working in large codebases to solve complex problems
• 5-7 years of professional programming experience
• Solid understanding of 3D math
• Ability to write clean, maintainable and extensible code with attention to reusability
• Experience in a broad range of engineering areas on shipping games or real time visualization systems, with special attention given to low-level code
• Excellent spoken and written communication
• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Linux development experience
• Experience developing on console platforms
• Shipped at least one AAA game title in a similar role

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Developer Platform team serves as the backbone of Anduril's engineering ecosystem, building critical infrastructure that enables teams to deliver mission-critical defense systems. On this team you would optimize release pipelines and CI/CD workflows powering Anduril's Software Factories across the US, Australia, and UK. You'll develop productivity-enhancing tools like our Golang-based dx CLI and architect data infrastructure for actionable engineering metrics and KPIs. Your work will directly impact the productivity across the entire software engineering ecosystem, creating a foundation that scales with Anduril's growth and supports its mission of solving critical defense challenges through advanced technology.

WHAT YOU’ll DO

• Lead engineering efforts across release systems, developer tooling, and the broader Anduril Software Factory to optimize release pipelines and development workflows.
• Architect scalable AI-powered automation solutions that increase developer productivity while maintaining the highest standards of quality and security for mission-critical defense systems.
• Design and implement robust data infrastructure to effectively instrument our diverse business lines
• Partner with Heads of Mission Engineering to define and track critical KPIs that drive strategic decision-making

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years in an engineering setting, with platform engineering experience and a deep understanding of development workflows. You have experience working on developer tools, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation, preferably in environments that reward initiative, creativity, and independent problem-solving with a demonstrable track record of maintaining complex software systems.
• Strong Golang chops needed to create integrations with other Anduril services, and improve our popular dx tool
• Strong Python experience for creating, analyzing, and visualizing complex datasets in Palantir’s Foundry product
• Demonstrated ability to quickly learn and adapt to unfamiliar technologies across multiple domains
• Self-directed, entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to identify opportunities and craft innovative solutions. The roadmap is ours to create and execute on.
• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Exceptional systems thinking with meticulous attention to detail, outstanding communication, and project management skills
• Proficiency with TypeScript/React for developing lightweight UI solutions
• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field
• Proven track record in fast-paced startup environments

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Maritime Application Team sits at the tip of the spear, transforming core platform technology into mission-winning capabilities that deliver a decisive operational edge at sea. We are a specialized software team embedded within the core Lattice Platform, uniquely positioned to accelerate the delivery of mission-critical capabilities for maritime platforms such as the Dive-LD, Dive-XL, Copperhead, and Seabed Sentry. Our role is to take powerful platform primitives—like data management, mission autonomy, simulation, auth, and orchestration—and rapidly forge them into integrated, robust applications for autonomous maritime systems. We act as an incubator for future platform features, ensuring that the solutions we build for today's contracts are the foundation for tomorrow's platform-wide advancements. If you are passionate about building high-impact software that directly supports operators in the field while shaping a next-generation platform, this is your team.

ABOUT THE JOB

As a Software Engineer on the Maritime Application Team, you will be the architect and builder of the software that our maritime operators use every day. You will design and implement the user interfaces, microservices, and data integrations that transform our autonomous underwater vehicles from powerful hardware into intelligent, mission-capable assets. This role requires a product-minded engineer who can operate with ambiguous requirements and translate complex operational needs into elegant, reliable, and scalable software solutions, bridging the gap between core platform infrastructure and real-world maritime challenges.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Design, develop, and deploy full-stack applications and services for maritime command and control, including our Lattice UI.
• Build robust, scalable back-end services (e.g., in Go, Rust, Python, C++) to manage mission planning, vehicle tasking, and real-time data processing.
• Develop intuitive and performant front-end interfaces (e.g., in React/TypeScript) that provide operators with at-a-glance situational awareness.
• Integrate specialized maritime data sources, such as electronic navigational charts (ENCs), bathymetry, and acoustic sensor data, by leveraging and extending core platform primitives.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, operators, and others cross functionally in the Software Platform and the Maritime Division to rapidly iterate on features and deliver tangible value.
• Champion best practices in software architecture, code quality, and testing to ensure our systems are reliable in challenging operational environments.
• Mentor other engineers on the team and contribute to the technical strategy for the maritime domain.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 3-5+ years of professional software development experience, with a proven track record of shipping complex, full-stack applications.
• Strong proficiency in one or more modern programming languages such as Go, Rust, Python, or C++, and a willingness to learn new ones.
• Experience building user-facing applications with modern web technologies (e.g., React, TypeScript, gRPC).
• A deep understanding of distributed systems, API design, and data modeling principles.
• Ability to architect solutions for scale, performance, and reliability.
• A bias towards rapid delivery and iteration, extreme ownership, and strong opinions with low ego.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen and eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government clearance.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with Go and/or Rust in a production environment.
• Experience building software for robotics, autonomous systems, or geospatial applications.
• Familiarity with cloud-native technologies (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker) and infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform).
• Experience working with real-time data streams, such as sensor data or vehicle telemetry.
• A passion for creating exceptional user experiences and a keen eye for product design.

ABOUT THE TEAM

Our team builds software that beautifully visualizes both real and simulated data that can be historical or live. It lets users create “what ifs” to evaluate mission concepts and is often used for Business Development and Engineering purposes. It also acts as the visual client for our Mission Simulation product.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Partner with stakeholders to establish clear priorities and define expectations, which translate to a scope of work that you and the team can deliver
• Identify technical risks and their solutions, collaborating with the broader engineering groups at Anduril
• Ensure client stability by diagnosing and resolving defects
• Analyze and optimize both memory and performance in systems that have to scale from high-end desktops to mobile AR systems
• Identify problems and solve them, while implementing robust, high-quality solutions

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Excellent C++ skills and software engineering principles
• Experience working in large codebases to solve complex problems
• Minimum five years of professional programming experience
• Solid understanding of 3D math
• Ability to write clean, maintainable and extensible code with attention to reusability
• Experience in a broad range of engineering areas on shipping games or real time visualization systems, with special attention given to low-level code
• Excellent spoken and written communication
• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret security clearance

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Linux development experience
• Experience developing on console platforms
• Shipped at least one AAA game title in a similar role

Team Overview

The Platform Security Engineering (PSE) team builds security into Anduril's products from architecture through production. We work directly with business lines to design and implement security solutions tailored to their systems — then promote proven patterns into shared, composable platform services that the entire organization can use. Our mission is threefold: build security solutions for business lines, promote those solutions into the platform, and enable teams to build and operate securely on their own. The work spans cryptographic protocols, operating system hardening, secure boot, hardware security integration, authentication systems, and distributed protocol security across embedded, edge, and cloud environments.

Job Description

We're looking for senior and staff-level software engineers to design and build security solutions across Anduril's product ecosystem. You'll partner directly with business line engineering teams to understand their systems, threat models, and security requirements — then design and implement solutions that range from custom, business-line-specific implementations to shared platform services. The problems you'll work on span the full stack — secure hardware, operating systems, container orchestration, distributed services, and cloud infrastructure — and you'll move between them as the mission demands. We value engineers who are strong generalists: comfortable learning new domains quickly and working across security boundaries rather than specializing in just one.

We're also open to hiring talented software engineers with less security-specific experience, provided they have a strong track record building production software at scale, learn fast, and are motivated to go deep on security.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement security features and services for business line products — including custom solutions when platform capabilities don't yet exist
• Identify patterns across business line implementations and promote them into shared, composable platform security services
• Build tooling, libraries, and reference implementations that enable engineering teams to adopt secure patterns independently
• Lead security architecture reviews and threat modeling for business line and platform systems
• Implement cryptographic protocols, key management systems, and certificate infrastructure
• Work across the technology stack: secure hardware (TPM, TEE), operating systems, container orchestration, and application-layer security
• Provide hands-on engineering support to business line teams adopting platform security services
• Collaborate with the Security Applications & Tools team on cross-cutting security infrastructure

Required Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience designing and developing production software in large-scale environments (8+ for Staff level)
• Proficient in at least one of: C++, Rust, or Go
• Strong software engineering fundamentals: you can design, build, and operate complex systems and pick up new domains quickly
• Experience working on security for distributed systems, or demonstrated ability and motivation to develop deep security expertise
• Ability to work directly with product and engineering teams to translate requirements into working implementations
• Comfortable working across multiple problem domains rather than specializing in a single area
• Strong communication skills with proven ability to negotiate and reach consensus across teams
• Eligible to obtain and maintain active U.S. Secret security clearance

Preferred Qualifications

Experience or willingness to learn in a subset of the following:

• Designing and implementing secure protocols, APIs, or cryptographic systems
• Integrating secure hardware (TPM, TEE, HSM)
• Operating system security and hardening (Linux)
• Securing Kubernetes deployments and container runtimes
• Embedded systems or robotics security
• Secure cloud architectures (AWS or Azure)
• Performing security architecture reviews and threat modeling

Additionally valuable:

• Proficient in: TypeScript, React, Python
• Experience building shared libraries, SDKs, or platform services consumed by other engineering teams
• Knowledge of cryptographic primitives and best practices (key management, certificate lifecycles, secure key storage)
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks (STIGs, NIST) and translating requirements into engineering controls
• Experience with Nix build systems

ABOUT THE JOB

We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer to design, improve, and maintain the core package set which supports software distribution throughout Anduril. This involves creating internal tooling, establishing standards, planning architectural changes, and supporting users of the package set. You are expected to provide expertise for the usage of Nix at a large scale and assist in training other engineers. You should be capable of operating autonomously with limited oversight in a complex environment, and have the ability to break down intricate problems into simple solutions.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Maintain an internal package set in order to enable software distribution across the company for development, hosted services, and embedded devices
• Package open-source and proprietary software components using Nix
• Improve developer ergonomics by defining Nix usage standards, creating tooling support, and integrating with developer workflows
• Provide assistance, training, and mentorship to other team members

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Proficiency with Nix, Nixpkgs, NixOS, and functional programming generally
• Deep understanding of how build systems and packaging ecosystems work
• Ability to dive into large and complicated systems, and use Nix to improve them
• Experience with one or more of the following languages: Rust, C++, Go, Python, Haskell
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with managing cloud computing resources (eg: AWS)
• Experience with modern build and deployment tooling, and continuous integration (e.g. NixOS, Terraform)
• Experience designing complex software systems, and iterating upon designs via a technical design review process
• Familiarity with industry standard monitoring, logging, and data management tools and best practices
• A bias towards rapid delivery and iteration

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Maritime App team builds the full-stack web application (part of Lattice OS) used to control all of Anduril’s Maritime products (Dive-LD, Dive-XL, Copperhead, Seabed Sentry, ASV, and more) from nodes in the cloud and laptops in the field. We bring together all the advanced tech from Anduril’s Software Platform into a hardened Maritime-focused software stack that’s shipped along with our autonomous maritime robots. We’re a full-stack web application team building a slick, modern, map-focused React frontend with a Go backend. We leverage Anduril’s proprietary mesh networking and distributed storage tech to keep Lattice working smoothly even in extreme network conditions (there’s no wifi underwater).

ABOUT THE JOB

We’re looking for an experienced frontend/full-stack engineer to shape the future of our web app architecture and infrastructure. Lattice for Maritime is only a couple years old and has a lot of exciting capabilities to build over the coming years! You will lead us in continuously evolving our architecture and best practices to ensure your teammates can continue to build performant and reliable features efficiently. This role requires a solid foundation in web technologies, managing large React codebases, optimizing runtime and build performance, and optimizing communication with the backend.

If you're a collaborative problem-solver who finds satisfaction in creating tools that amplify the effectiveness of other engineers, we want to talk to you.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Design and implement architectural patterns, tools, and best practices for building components, pages, services, and apps
• Proactively identify pain points and opportunities to improve our dev experience and infrastructure
• Work across the stack (front-end, back-end, build, CI/CD) to get things done
• Support and mentor fellow engineers on engineering best practices, and on how to best use our tools
• Lead the creation of net-new apps and/or break our app down into more focused experiences
• Harden our component library to work more seamlessly with our design system
• Evolve our use of libraries (e.g. for mapping, charting, logging) to increase performance, maintainability, and usefulness. And make them really really ridiculously good looking.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field; or equivalent industry experience
• Experience building production web applications in JavaScript or TypeScript (we use TypeScript and React)
• Experience designing architectural patterns, tooling, or best practices, and leading engineering teams in adopting them
• Experience effectively integrating tools and libraries (build systems, component libraries, testing frameworks, monitoring) into frontend codebases and CI/CD pipelines
• Familiarity with modern backend programming languages such as Go, C++, or Rust.
• High empathy for your fellow engineers and users
• Minimum 5 years of software engineering experience
• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Have a bias for action and taking ownership. You have a track record of solving a problem if you see one.
• Experience maintaining continuous integration systems (we use CircleCI)
• Experience or interest working in monorepos with modern build systems
• Experience or interest working in Go
• Experience with gRPC/protobuf or similar technologies
• Experience with NixOS
• Experience designing effective/reliable use of AI agents to augment software development teams

ABOUT THE TEAM 

The centralized Software Product Design & Research team serves as the connective tissue across Anduril's ecosystem of software experiences – ensuring that products and workflows scale thoughtfully across platforms, mission types, and domains. You will join the central team as a mission product designer – deployed to support Anduril's Tactical Reconnaissance & Strike organization alongside another designer focused in this domain. Together, you will own the design direction for mobile and web experiences that enable tactical operations, working closely with specialized stakeholders including autonomous systems engineers, product managers, and end users in mission-critical environments. As part of the central team, you'll maintain full access to the broader design community for critique, collaboration, and knowledge sharing while building deep expertise in a specialized operational domain that has immediate real-world impact.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Own mobile-first product experiences for tactical operations alongside web-based workflows from discovery to delivery – leveraging established [tactical] mobile conventions as a foundation while identifying opportunities to redefine interaction patterns based on validated user needs.
• Lead discovery and validation through direct engagement with end users in operational contexts and collaborative workshops with stakeholders; synthesize findings into design decisions that demonstrably improve mission-critical workflows in a fast-paced environment where speed to deployment is essential.
• Proactively identify design opportunities with minimal direction, defining what needs to be designed and driving work forward autonomously – balancing near-term delivery needs with system-level thinking across interconnected workflows.
• Shape how product design integrates with engineering & product management through close collaboration, iterative prototyping, and hands-on implementation guidance.
• Ensure your work is easy to follow through strong narrative skills, journey maps, user workflows, high fidelity mockups, and detailed documentation rigor.
• Partner with our design systems team to evolve the underlying platform through your work at the edge.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years of experience in product design, UX, or HCI, with a proven ability to execute high-craft, technically informed solutions.
• Proven experience designing mobile-first product experiences with deep understanding of mobile interface patterns, constraints, and interaction paradigms.
• Self-directed work style with demonstrated ability to operate autonomously – identifying gaps, defining scope, and driving design forward without constant direction.
• Experience designing for operational or tactical contexts where workflows require precision, speed, and clarity under time-sensitive conditions.
• Deep expertise in visual and interaction design with ability to craft elegant solutions for complex workflows; portfolio demonstrating high attention to detail.
• Systems thinking mindset, capable of mapping workflows across multiple user types and operational contexts.
• Strong prototyping skills to drive clarity in decision-making.
• Ability to communicate the "why" behind design decisions; work demonstrating having navigating complex stakeholder requirements across engineering, product, and business teams.
• No prior defense experience necessary – we are looking for designers who can bring diverse perspectives to hard problems.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience designing for provisioning and configuration at scale – creating workflows that ensure consistency, minimize errors, and provide clear visibility across operational states.
• Track record of delivering high-quality design work against firm deadlines in fast-paced, mission-critical environments where priorities shift rapidly and ambiguity is the norm.
• Experience working within established design systems while contributing thoughtful extensions for domain-specific needs.
• Experience leading user research sessions including customer discovery, usability testing, and synthesis of complex feedback loops.
• Facilitation skills to lead workshops, guide cross-functional alignment, and strategic decision-making.
• Familiarity with designing for constrained or high-stakes / safety critical environments (e.g., industrial, aerospace, or defense systems).
• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. TS clearance.