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Staff Software Engineer, Air Defense

Anduril· AFS : Air Defense Engineering
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Irvine, CA$220k - $292kFull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Staff Software Engineer position in Irvine, CA focusing on developing software for air defense systems, including networking, autonomy, systems integration, robotics, and field deployment with up to 30% travel.

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 up to 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, Mathematics, or Physics
  • 10+ years working with programming languages such as Python, C++, Rust, Go, JavaScript, etc.
  • Strong Experience with React and Javascript/TypeScript
  • 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
  • Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

Skills

Required:Programming in PythonProgramming in C++JavaScript/TypeScriptReactData processing and analysisSystems navigationSecurity clearance
Nice to have:Programming in Rust

Benefits

  • Highly competitive equity grants (included in most full-time offers)
  • Top-tier health, recovery, and other comprehensive benefits (available at little to no cost)
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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