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Staff Software Engineer

Anduril· Maritime & Maneuver Dominance : Maneuver Dominance Engineering : Mission Software Engineering
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Sydneyfull-timePosted 10mo ago

About the role

Staff Software Engineers lead the delivery of a variety of software integrated into Anduril’s maritime products, acting as technical leads, senior individual contributors, and/or team leads with hands-on contribution across autonomy, simulation, data processing, payload integration, and off-board command and control and decision support.

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
  • Drive architecture selection and design for robotic 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 software inputs to autonomous systems
  • Lead teams that develop software that runs on- and off- platform, using a variety of technologies
  • Act as a subject matter expert for software engineering, representing software equities in a multi-stakeholder environment including engineering, business and sales leadership.
  • Drive the design and implementation of development processes for the initial delivery and subsequent iteration of 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
  • 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
  • Experience in a leadership position within a high performing technology organization
  • Extensive professional experience working as a Software Engineer with one or more domains and/or technologies of expertise
  • Systems and/or application programming skills including algorithms, data structures, concurrency, scaling, testing, infrastructure, software design and system design
  • 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 software system, including stakeholder 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
  • Ability to obtain and maintain an Australian Government Security Clearance

Skills

Required:Software architecture and designLeadership and team mentoringStakeholder management and requirements gathering

Benefits

  • Comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees)
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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