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Lead Mission Software Engineer, EW

Anduril· Mission Systems : Electromagnetic Warfare Engineering : EW Core Technologies
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Costa Mesa, CA$220k - $292kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Lead Mission Software Engineer to build and lead the new Mission Software Engineering function within Anduril’s Electronic Warfare division, owning the full lifecycle of EW software from development through deployment, sustainment, and customer success. Role combines architecture, team leadership, field-ready engineering, and cross-stack collaboration.

Responsibilities

  • Build and rapidly grow the EW Mission Software Engineering team
  • Set the technical direction for mission software — architecture, engineering standards, tooling, and deployment practices
  • Personally contribute hands-on engineering work: system debugging, software patching, infrastructure, and integration
  • Own the delivery, installation, and sustainment of operational EW systems — from production through field deployment
  • Triage field issues, drive root cause analysis, and coordinate rapid fixes across software and hardware teams
  • Establish processes for incident response, post-incident review, and preventive engineering
  • Partner with operators and customers to understand mission needs, translate them into engineering action, and close the feedback loop between the field and development
  • Collaborate with embedded software, applications engineering, and test/QA to ensure mission-critical fixes flow into future releases
  • Coordinate with release engineering to qualify and manage builds for field deployment
  • Travel up to 30% to support deployments, integration events, and customer engagements

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of professional experience in software engineering, with meaningful time spent on production systems that can't go down
  • 2+ years leading or managing a technical team (hiring, setting direction, driving execution)
  • Strong proficiency in at least two of: Haskell, Rust, C++, Go, TypeScript
  • Experience with Linux systems administration and debugging in production environments
  • Demonstrated ability to work across the software stack — embedded systems, networking, applications, infrastructure
  • Experience supporting or operating remotely deployed software/hardware systems
  • Strong communication skills and comfort engaging directly with customers on technical matters
  • Track record of operating effectively in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
  • Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret SCI security clearance
  • Willingness to travel up to 30%

Skills

Required:Software engineering leadershipFull-stack software developmentProgramming languages

Benefits

  • Competitive benefits package including health, recovery, and future planning resources
Last updated Sep 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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