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Staff Software Engineer, Active Clearance, Air Defense

Anduril· AFS : Air Defense Engineering : Software Engineering
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Irvine, California$220k - $292kFull-timePosted 10mo ago

About the role

Staff Software Engineer role in Irvine, CA focused on networking, autonomy, systems integration, robotics, and mission-critical software for Anduril’s Air Defense Family of Systems. Emphasis on expedient, scalable, and pragmatic engineering to deliver high-quality outcomes with active U.S. Secret clearance.

Responsibilities

  • 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 30% of time to build, test, and deploy capabilities in the real world

Qualifications

  • Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Computer Engineering
  • 10+ years working with a variety of programming languages such as Python, Rust, Go, etc.
  • 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
  • Active U.S. Secret clearance

Skills

Required:Programming in PythonProgramming in Rust
Nice to have:Programming in Go

Benefits

  • Benefits package (comprehensive and competitive) including health, recovery, and future planning provisions; details available in company materials and benefits page
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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