ABOUT THE JOB

As a Mission Software Engineer, 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, 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.

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 25% of the 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
• Experience working with a variety of programming languages such as C++, Rust, or Python
• 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
• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. TS clearance.
• Must be willing to travel up to 25%.

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

About the Role

We are seeking a Modeling and Simulation Engineer to develop and validate software tools for analyzing sensor and vehicle configurations in autonomous systems. This role involves creating accurate models of sensors and vehicles to evaluate technical capabilities and ensure simulations are representative of real-world hardware.
The ideal candidate will have experience in sensor modeling, simulation frameworks, and building software tools for data visualization and analysis. This role is critical in bridging simulation and physical deployment to optimize sensor and vehicle configurations.

What You’ll Do

• Sensor and Vehicle Modeling: Develop accurate models of sensors (e.g., LiDAR, cameras, IMUs) and vehicles to simulate performance under various configurations.
• Simulation Validation: Ensure simulated sensors and platforms closely match physical hardware performance in real-world conditions.
• Software Tooling: Build and maintain software tools for visualizing, analyzing, and optimizing sensor and vehicle configurations.
• Performance Analysis: Conduct technical evaluations of sensor configurations to assess range, accuracy, and other performance metrics.
• Optimization: Explore trade-offs in sensor placement, platform design, and environmental factors to maximize system performance.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with perception, autonomy, and hardware teams to ensure simulation results inform real-world designs.
• Data Visualization: Develop intuitive visualization tools to present complex simulation results to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Iterative Improvement: Continuously refine models and tools based on feedback from physical testing and deployed systems.

Required Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s, Master’s, or Ph.D. in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• Sensor Modeling Experience: Proven experience modeling sensors like LiDAR, cameras, IMUs, and GPS in simulation.
• Simulation Tools: Proficiency with simulation frameworks such as Unreal Engine.
• Software Development: Strong programming skills in C++ and Python for building simulation tools and analysis pipelines.
• Data Visualization: Experience creating tools or dashboards for visualizing simulation results.
• Physics-Based Modeling: Familiarity with physics-based simulation techniques for accurate environmental and sensor modeling.
• Systems Integration: Ability to validate and align simulation models with real-world hardware and systems.
• Analytical Skills: Strong ability to analyze and interpret simulation data for performance evaluation.

Preferred Qualifications

• Real-World Hardware Experience: Hands-on experience with physical sensors and understanding of their operational characteristics.
• Optimization Techniques: Knowledge of optimization algorithms for sensor placement or system design.
• Machine Learning: Familiarity with AI/ML techniques for improving simulation fidelity or analyzing sensor data.
• Advanced Visualization: Experience with tools like Matplotlib, Plotly, or 3D visualization libraries.
• Embedded Systems: Understanding of hardware constraints and system-level trade-offs in sensor integration.
• Security Clearance: Active U.S. Secret clearance is a plus.

Why Join Us?

This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of autonomous systems by bridging simulation and real-world performance. Your work will ensure our sensor and vehicle configurations are optimized for mission-critical applications, driving innovation in robotics and autonomous technology.
Apply now to help us build accurate and impactful simulation tools for next-generation autonomous systems!

ABOUT THE TEAM

Anduril's Maneuver Dominance is responsible for planning and executing Anduril's product and revenue roadmap for missions. Working across product, engineering, business development, logistics, and operations, the Maneuver Dominance team develops, tests, deploys, and sustains the Anduril Maneuver Dominance capabilities in a challenging operational environment worldwide. As a leader in the Maneuver Dominance Division, you must be a technical leader with the expertise to evaluate, qualify, manage, and advocate for an increasing number of sophisticated parallel pursuits. This role is crucial in ensuring that each initiative aligns with the company's strategic direction and receives the appropriate resourcing, balancing innovation with practical execution to drive the business line's success.

ABOUT THE JOB

You will lead the technical development and integration of vehicle systems for a Maneuver Dominance product, from initial concept through delivery. You will work closely with program leadership, teams from other Anduril products, and third party system vendors to develop these designs so that requirements are tied to customer inputs and there is traceability to program office technical decisions.

Your spectrum of support will be diverse in nature and require you to leverage your technical expertise as well as leadership skills to set objectives, build cross-functional teams, and rapidly drive to completion. The ability to leverage your intuition and prior experience will be key in making sure the right design, analysis, and test steps are completed to ensure success. The ideal candidate will leverage their experience executing and successfully completing prior highly optimized multi-disciplinary projects.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Own customer success through the design and delivery of a fully operational mission system for a new Maneuver Dominance platform.
• Partner with the Vehicle Software team that is responsible for core sensor, actuator, and vehicle system functionality. Collaborate on interfacing requirements between Vehicle Management System and Mission System stacks .
• Drive architecture selection and design for robotic mission systems, including hardware selection, compute, storage and network architecture. Service orchestration and other software platform concerns that balance constraints, restrictions and requirements in a multi-stakeholder environment.
• Contribute to the design and development of a company-wide roadmap for mission system integration into Maneuver Dominance platforms, including necessary software inputs.
• Lead teams that develop software that runs on- and off- platform, using a variety of technologies.
• Drive the design and implementation of development processes for the initial delivery and subsequent iteration of mission software, including full lifecycle testing.
• Drive the creation of test and simulation fixtures that operate with both software- and hardware-in-the-loop
• Support vehicle manufacturing and deployment.
• Lead teams of multi-disciplinary engineers, including as a mentor for Senior Software Engineers from differing backgrounds.
• Leverage internal product and program-specific engineering teams to rapidly deliver capability beyond the scope of current platforms, with a clear path for both architecture and capability evolution over time.
• Travel to co-locate with end-users and/or other teams up to 25% of the time.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS 

• Experience in a senior role for the delivery of a military mission system
• Experience with the development and sustainment of distributed software platform and application architectures, running under dynamic network topologies
• Experience with modeling and simulation
• Experience with python and matlab 
• Experience with development of high assurance safety critical software
• Experience with development of comprehensive unit test and regression
• Deep understanding of autonomous weapons systems, inclusive of payload capabilities and both commercial and military mission sets
• Experience within the product delivery lifecycle including manufacturing, system acceptance, deployment, and sustainment
• Familiarity with vehicle management systems
• Familiarity with System Engineering concepts
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Engineering, a relevant field, or equivalent experience
• Experience in a leadership position within a high performing technology organization
• Systems and/or application programming skills including algorithms, data structures, concurrency and optimization
• Experience troubleshooting and analyzing remotely deployed software systems
• Capacity to work holistically on software enabled capabilities up and down the software stack and through lifecycle through design, implementation, operation and sustainment
• Capacity to act as the technical owner for an entire mission system, including stakeholder and customer engagement, requirements definition, roadmap management, team co-ordination, design, implementation, sustainment and evolution
• Capacity to learn and grow individually, while mentoring senior team members effectively, building team cohesion and capacity
• 5+ years of operational experience with autonomous Maneuver Dominance systems

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Maneuver Dominance team at Anduril develops operationally relevant, multi-asset autonomy. We are focused on making large groups of autonomous systems work effectively together. We leverage existing Anduril drone platforms like Ghost or Altius, in addition to bringing 3rd party platforms into Anduril’s Lattice ecosystem. 

ABOUT THE JOB

We are looking for a Senior Robotics Software Engineer to join our rapidly growing team in Costa Mesa, CA. In this role, you will be responsible for solving a wide variety of problems involving networking, autonomy, systems integration, robotics, perception, and more, while making pragmatic engineering tradeoffs along the way. Your will ensure that Anduril products seamlessly work together to achieve a variety of critical outcomes. This will require strong systems-level knowledge and experience. If you are someone who possess 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 then this role is for you.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Own the mission autonomy systems and services 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 25% of the 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
• 6+ years of professional industry experience working with C++ or Rust programming languages. 
• 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.
• Must be willing to travel up to 25% for testing and demonstrations.
• Eligible to obtain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

PREFERRED 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.
• Experience with distributed communication networks and message standards.

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Maneuver Dominance team at Anduril develops operationally relevant, multi-asset autonomy. We are focused on making large groups of autonomous systems work effectively together, with a particular emphasis on larger, more capable unmanned aerial vehicles. Our team specializes in integrating advanced perception and autonomy algorithms into complex aerial platforms, pushing the boundaries of what's possible in autonomous flight and mission execution. We develop cutting-edge Computer Vision and Autonomy algorithms to solve some of the hardest problems facing our customers, particularly in challenging and dynamic environments where robust perception is critical.

ABOUT THE JOB

We are seeking an experienced Computer Vision Engineer with a strong background in robotics to join our rapidly growing team in Costa Mesa, CA. In this role, you will be at the forefront of developing advanced perception systems for complex autonomous aerial platforms. Your expertise in computer vision algorithms, combined with your understanding of robotics principles, will be crucial in solving a wide variety of challenges involving visual perception, SLAM, motion planning, controls, and state estimation.

This role requires not only technical expertise in computer vision and robotics but also the ability to make pragmatic engineering tradeoffs, considering the unique constraints of aerial platforms. Your work will directly contribute to the seamless integration of Anduril's products, achieving critical outcomes in autonomous operations. This position demands strong systems-level knowledge and experience, as you'll be working on the intersection of computer vision, robotics, and autonomous systems. If you are passionate about pushing the boundaries of computer vision in robotics, possess a "Whatever It Takes" mindset, and can execute in an expedient, scalable, and pragmatic way while keeping the mission top-of-mind and making sound engineering decisions, then this role is for you.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Work at the intersection of 3D perception and computer vision, developing robust algorithms that power real-time decision-making for autonomous aerial systems.
• Develop and implement advanced structure from motion and SLAM algorithms to create accurate 3D models from multiple camera inputs in real-time.
• Integrate perception outputs with path planning algorithms to enable autonomous navigation in complex, unstructured environments
• Design experiments, data collection efforts, and curate training/evaluation sets to develop insights for both internal purposes and customers.
• Collaborate closely with robotics, software, and hardware teams to integrate perception algorithms into autonomous aerial systems.
• Work with vendors and government stakeholders to advance the state-of-the-art in perception and world modeling for autonomous aerial systems.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• BS in Robotics, Computer Science, Mechatronics, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field.
• Strong knowledge of 3D computer vision concepts, including multi-view geometry, camera models, photogrammetry, and 3D reconstruction techniques.
• Fluency in standard domain libraries (numpy, opencv, pytorch, etc).
• Proven understanding of data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and code optimization.
• 6+ years of professional industry experience working with C++ or Rust programming languages.
• Experience deploying software to end customers, internal or external.
• Must be willing to travel 25%.
• Eligible to obtain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• MS or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, Mechatronics, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field.
• Experience with perception systems for aerial robotics or other highly dynamic platforms.
• Experience with real-world sensor integrations, including LiDAR, RGB-D cameras, stereo cameras, or TOF cameras.
• Knowledge of path planning algorithms and their integration with perception systems in dynamic environments.
• Experience with GPU / CUDA programming for accelerated computer vision processing.

About the Job

We are seeking a Robotics Software Engineer with expertise in C++ and Rust to join our team. In this role, you will design, develop, and optimize software solutions for autonomous robotic systems, focusing on sensor integration, networking, and multi-agent coordination. You will work on interdisciplinary challenges, collaborate across teams, and deploy critical software in real-world environments. 

If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, enjoy solving complex problems, and are passionate about creating impactful robotics systems, this opportunity is for you.

What You’ll Do

• Develop Mission-Critical Software: Engineer scalable and robust solutions for networking, sensor integration, and autonomy across robotic platforms.
• Sensor Integration: Work with a variety of sensors (e.g., cameras, LiDAR, IMUs) to enable perception, localization, and navigation.
• Networking Systems: Design and optimize distributed communication networks and message-passing frameworks for multi-robot coordination.
• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner with hardware, systems, and manufacturing teams to seamlessly integrate software into physical systems.
• Real-World Deployment: Travel up to 25% to test, debug, and deploy systems in operational environments.
• Iterative Development: Contribute to the entire software lifecycle, including prototyping, implementation, testing, and deployment.
• Optimize Performance: Enhance system efficiency, such as improving latency, battery consumption, and resource utilization.
• Troubleshoot and Debug: Analyze and resolve issues in deployed systems, ensuring reliability and operational success.

Required Qualifications

• Technical Expertise: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Robotics, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics.
• C++ and Rust Proficiency: 2+ years of hands-on experience developing production-grade software in C++ and/or Rust.
• Networking Knowledge: Experience with distributed communication networks, protocols, and message standards.
• Sensor Integration: Proven ability to work with and integrate sensors (e.g., LiDAR, cameras, IMUs) into robotics systems.
• Systems-Level Thinking: Ability to navigate and contribute to complex systems and established codebases.
• Real-World Impact: Passion for building software that directly influences mission-critical outcomes.
• Travel Flexibility: Willingness to travel up to 25% to test and deploy systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced Robotics: Experience with motion planning, perception, localization, and multi-agent coordination.
• Simulation Expertise: Proficiency in designing Software-in-the-Loop (SIL) simulation environments.
• Hardware Integration: Experience working with embedded systems and physical devices.
• Performance Optimization: Familiarity with metrics and optimization techniques for robotics systems.
• Programming Skills: Additional experience with Python, and/or real-time operating systems.
• Machine Learning: Knowledge of AI/ML applications in robotics.
• Security Clearance: Active or prior U.S. Secret clearance is a plus.

ABOUT THE JOB

As a Mission Software Engineer, 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, 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.

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 25% of the 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
• Experience working with a variety of programming languages such as C++, Rust, or Python
• 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
• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. TS clearance.
• Must be willing to travel up to 25%.

DESIRED REQUIREMENTS

• Strong background with focus in Physics, Mathematics, and/or Motion Planning to inform modeling & simulation (M&S) and physical systems
• 4+ years of professional industry experience working
• 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

ABOUT THE JOB

As a Mission Software Engineer, 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, 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.

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 25% of the 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
• Experience working with a variety of programming languages such as C++, Rust, or Python
• 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
• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. TS clearance.
• Must be willing to travel up to 25%.

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

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Maneuver Dominance team at Anduril develops operationally relevant, multi-asset autonomy. We are focused on making large groups of autonomous systems work effectively together, with a particular emphasis on larger, more capable unmanned aerial vehicles. Our team specializes in integrating advanced perception and autonomy algorithms into complex aerial platforms, pushing the boundaries of what's possible in autonomous flight and mission execution. We develop cutting-edge Computer Vision and Autonomy algorithms to solve some of the hardest problems facing our customers, particularly in challenging and dynamic environments where robust perception is critical.

ABOUT THE JOB

We are seeking an experienced Computer Vision Engineer with a strong background in robotics to join our rapidly growing team in Costa Mesa, CA. In this role, you will be at the forefront of developing advanced perception systems for complex autonomous aerial platforms. Your expertise in computer vision algorithms, combined with your understanding of robotics principles, will be crucial in solving a wide variety of challenges involving visual perception, SLAM, motion planning, controls, and state estimation.

This role requires not only technical expertise in computer vision and robotics but also the ability to make pragmatic engineering tradeoffs, considering the unique constraints of aerial platforms. Your work will directly contribute to the seamless integration of Anduril's products, achieving critical outcomes in autonomous operations. This position demands strong systems-level knowledge and experience, as you'll be working on the intersection of computer vision, robotics, and autonomous systems. If you are passionate about pushing the boundaries of computer vision in robotics, possess a "Whatever It Takes" mindset, and can execute in an expedient, scalable, and pragmatic way while keeping the mission top-of-mind and making sound engineering decisions, then this role is for you.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Work at the intersection of 3D perception and computer vision, developing robust algorithms that power real-time decision-making for autonomous aerial systems.
• Develop and implement advanced structure from motion and SLAM algorithms to create accurate 3D models from multiple camera inputs in real-time.
• Integrate perception outputs with path planning algorithms to enable autonomous navigation in complex, unstructured environments
• Design experiments, data collection efforts, and curate training/evaluation sets to develop insights for both internal purposes and customers.
• Collaborate closely with robotics, software, and hardware teams to integrate perception algorithms into autonomous aerial systems.
• Work with vendors and government stakeholders to advance the state-of-the-art in perception and world modeling for autonomous aerial systems.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• BS in Robotics, Computer Science, Mechatronics, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field.
• Strong knowledge of 3D computer vision concepts, including multi-view geometry, camera models, photogrammetry, and 3D reconstruction techniques.
• Fluency in standard domain libraries (numpy, opencv, pytorch, etc).
• Proven understanding of data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and code optimization.
• 4+ years of professional industry experience working with C++ or Rust programming languages.
• Experience deploying software to end customers, internal or external.
• Must be willing to travel 25%.
• Eligible to obtain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• MS or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, Mechatronics, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field.
• Experience with perception systems for aerial robotics or other highly dynamic platforms.
• Experience with real-world sensor integrations, including LiDAR, RGB-D cameras, stereo cameras, or TOF cameras.
• Knowledge of path planning algorithms and their integration with perception systems in dynamic environments.
• Experience with GPU / CUDA programming for accelerated computer vision processing.

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Maneuver Dominance team at Anduril develops operationally relevant, multi-asset autonomy. We are focused on making large groups of autonomous systems work effectively together. We leverage existing Anduril drone platforms like Ghost or Altius, in addition to bringing 3rd party platforms into Anduril’s Lattice ecosystem. 

ABOUT THE JOB

We are looking for a Robotics Software Engineer to join our rapidly growing team in Costa Mesa, CA. In this role, you will be responsible for solving a wide variety of problems involving networking, autonomy, systems integration, robotics, perception, and more, while making pragmatic engineering tradeoffs along the way. Your will ensure that Anduril products seamlessly work together to achieve a variety of critical outcomes. This will require strong systems-level knowledge and experience. If you are someone who possess 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 then this role is for you.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Own the mission autonomy systems and services 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 25% of the 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 of professional industry experience working with C++ or Rust programming languages. 
• 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.
• Must be willing to travel up to 25% for testing and demonstrations.
• Eligible to obtain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

PREFERRED 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.
• Experience with distributed communication networks and message standards.

About the Job

We are seeking a Robotics Software Engineer with expertise in C++ and Rust to join our team. In this role, you will design, develop, and optimize software solutions for autonomous robotic systems, focusing on sensor integration, networking, and multi-agent coordination. You will work on interdisciplinary challenges, collaborate across teams, and deploy critical software in real-world environments.
If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, enjoy solving complex problems, and are passionate about creating impactful robotics systems, this opportunity is for you.

What You’ll Do

• Develop Mission-Critical Software: Engineer scalable and robust solutions for networking, sensor integration, and autonomy across robotic platforms.
• Sensor Integration: Work with a variety of sensors (e.g., cameras, LiDAR, IMUs) to enable perception, localization, and navigation.
• Networking Systems: Design and optimize distributed communication networks and message-passing frameworks for multi-robot coordination.
• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner with hardware, systems, and manufacturing teams to seamlessly integrate software into physical systems.
• Real-World Deployment: Travel up to 25% to test, debug, and deploy systems in operational environments.
• Iterative Development: Contribute to the entire software lifecycle, including prototyping, implementation, testing, and deployment.
• Optimize Performance: Enhance system efficiency, such as improving latency, battery consumption, and resource utilization.
• Troubleshoot and Debug: Analyze and resolve issues in deployed systems, ensuring reliability and operational success.

Required Qualifications

• Technical Expertise: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Robotics, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics.
• C++ and Rust Proficiency: 2+ years of hands-on experience developing production-grade software in C++ and/or Rust.
• Networking Knowledge: Experience with distributed communication networks, protocols, and message standards.
• Sensor Integration: Proven ability to work with and integrate sensors (e.g., LiDAR, cameras, IMUs) into robotics systems.
• Systems-Level Thinking: Ability to navigate and contribute to complex systems and established codebases.
• Real-World Impact: Passion for building software that directly influences mission-critical outcomes.
• Travel Flexibility: Willingness to travel up to 25% to test and deploy systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced Robotics: Experience with motion planning, perception, localization, and multi-agent coordination.
• Simulation Expertise: Proficiency in designing Software-in-the-Loop (SIL) simulation environments.
• Hardware Integration: Experience working with embedded systems and physical devices.
• Performance Optimization: Familiarity with metrics and optimization techniques for robotics systems.
• Programming Skills: Additional experience with Python, and/or real-time operating systems.
• Machine Learning: Knowledge of AI/ML applications in robotics.
• Security Clearance: Active or prior U.S. Secret clearance is a plus.