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Software Engineer, Air Defense

Anduril· AFS : Air Defense Engineering
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Irvine, CA$166k - $220kFull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Software Engineer on the Air Defense team focused on networking, autonomy, systems integration, and robotics to detect, track, deter, and defeat UAS threats. Works across product, engineering, sales, logistics, operations, and mission success to deploy and sustain the Anduril Air Defense Family of Systems in challenging environments.

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
  • 3+ years working with Python, C++, Rust, Go, JavaScript, 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
  • Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

Skills

Required:Programming languagesData processing and analysisSystems and code base navigationSecurity clearance

Benefits

  • Top-tier benefits for full-time employees (health, recovery, and other coverage)
  • Equity grants included in the majority of full-time offers
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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