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Staff Robotics Engineer

Anduril· Maritime & Maneuver Dominance : Undersea Dominance - Engineering & Operations
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Melbourne$0full-timePosted 10mo ago

About the role

Staff Robotics Engineers lead the delivery of vehicle perception and planning capability integrated into Anduril’s maritime autonomous systems, acting as technical leads and hands-on contributors across architecture, implementation, testing, and integration for end-to-end vehicle autonomy.

Responsibilities

  • Own customer success through the design and delivery of a multi-year, multi-stakeholder software roadmap that spans across multiple teams.
  • 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
  • Partner with external teams, collaborating on interfacing requirements between diverse systems and technologies
  • Lead teams that architect, design and implement trusted safe navigation, collision avoidance, and situational awareness systems that balance constraints, restrictions and requirements in a multi-stakeholder environment.
  • Drive the development and implementation of sensor suites, perception algorithms, planning algorithms, and test fixtures to deliver safe navigation and effective operation of Anduril’s autonomous vehicles
  • Perform high impact IC work in architecture and implementation across the whole perception and planning stack
  • Utilize advanced techniques in computer vision, sensor fusion, and machine learning to enhance perception and planning capabilities of Anduril vehicles
  • Conduct thorough testing and validation of perception and planning algorithms through development and use of simulation and analysis of data from real-world experiments, including evolving the data analysis tooling.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including software engineers, mechanical engineers, and systems engineers, to ensure effective system integration and testing
  • 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 in C++ and/or Python software development
  • Familiarity with autonomous vehicle hardware and sensors such as radar, sonar, LIDAR, and cameras
  • Demonstrated knowledge of at least one of: computer vision, sensor fusion, SLAM, motion planning, machine learning
  • Experience in a senior perception or planning role for the delivery of a robotic system
  • Capacity to act as the technical owner for a system, including stakeholder engagement, requirements definition, roadmap management, team coordination, design, implementation, sustainment and evolution
  • Ability to collaborate with stakeholders to define and implement robust validation and verification strategies for perception and planning modules
  • Capacity to learn and grow individually, while mentoring junior team members effectively, building team cohesion and capacity
  • Eligible to obtain and maintain an Australian Government Negative Vetting 2 security clearance (NV2)

Skills

Required:Perception and PlanningC++PythonComputer VisionSensor FusionMotion PlanningValidation & VerificationSystem Integration
Nice to have:SLAM

Benefits

  • Benefits package including comprehensive, competitive benefits available at little to no cost to employees (details in company materials)
  • Highly competitive equity grants included in most full-time offers
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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