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Senior Software Engineer (Flight Software)

Anduril· Maritime & Maneuver Dominance : Undersea Dominance - Engineering & Operations
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Melbournefull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Senior Software Engineers independently drive the delivery of embedded and safety-critical software for Anduril’s maritime autonomous systems, including vehicle management, sensor processing, state estimation, contingency management, and real-time embedded software development within RTOS environments.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement trusted, safety critical Vehicle Management Systems that balance constraints, restrictions and requirements in a multi-stakeholder environment.
  • Design and implement scalable vehicle sub-systems including sensor processing, state estimation, contingency management, actuation, payload interfaces, and mission systems interfaces
  • Contribute to the design and development of existing software components across Anduril, with the aim of developing components that are reusable across multiple Anduril product lines
  • Develop real-time embedded software using an RTOS.
  • Develop device drivers and interfaces to a variety of sensors and actuators.
  • Create test and simulation fixtures that operate with both software-and hardware-in-the-loop.
  • Support vehicle manufacturing and deployment.
  • Work as a member of a multi-disciplinary engineering team, including as a mentor for Software Engineers from differing backgrounds
  • Travel to co-locate with end-users and/or other teams up to 20% of the time

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Engineering, a relevant field, or equivalent experience
  • Experienced and proficient at low level programming languages such as C, C++ or Rust.
  • Experience with an RTOS.
  • Familiarity with communications busses and protocols (e.g. CAN, CANFD, UART/RS232/RS422/RS485, SPI, QSPI, I2C, UDP, TCP, Ethernet)
  • Systems programming skills including algorithms, data structures, concurrency and optimization.
  • Capacity to act as the technical owner for a software component, including stakeholder engagement, requirements definition, roadmap management, team co-ordination, design, implementation, sustainment and evolution
  • Capacity to learn and grow individually, while mentoring junior team members effectively, contributing to team cohesion and capacity.
  • Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

Skills

Required:Low-level programming (C, C++, Rust)RTOSEmbedded systemsDevice driversSystem ownership / technical leadershipMentoring
Nice to have:Test and simulation in real-time environmentsManufacturing and deployment support
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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