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Senior Software Engineer, Active Clearance, Air Defense

Anduril· AFS : Air Defense Engineering : Software Engineering
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Irvine, CA$191k - $253kFull-timePosted 10mo ago

About the role

Senior Software Engineer to join the Anduril Air Defense team in Irvine, CA, solving a wide range of problems involving networking, autonomy, systems integration, robotics, and data processing to deliver mission-critical capabilities for air defense systems.

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
  • 7+ 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 RustData processing and analysisSystem navigation and comprehensionActive U.S. Secret clearance
Nice to have:Programming in Go

Benefits

  • Comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees)
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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