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Senior Software Engineer, Compute Platform Integration

Anduril· AFS : Counter Intrusion Engineering : Sentry Software Engineering
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Irvine, CAfull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior Software Engineer to own and integrate the boot chain and hardware bring-up for Anduril's Sentry Tower compute platforms, interfacing between the platform (NixOS, BSP) and Sentry products to ensure reliable boot, hardware enumeration, and platform upgrades.

Responsibilities

  • Own the boot path end to end on every compute generation we ship: firmware, UEFI, the unified kernel image and its command line, initrd, encrypted root unlock, and the handoff into a fully running NixOS system.
  • Guarantee full hardware availability at boot: every bus, peripheral, and network interface present, correctly named, and functional, with deterministic enumeration that survives platform and kernel upgrades.
  • Own carrier board device trees: reading pinout and pinmux definitions from hardware engineering, producing and maintaining the corresponding DTS, DTSI, and overlay changes, and validating them on real boards.
  • Produce kernel, bootloader, and BSP patches when our hardware needs behavior the vendor tree doesn’t provide, and carry those patch sets forward across platform upgrades.
  • Serve as our primary technical liaison to the platform organization: file and drive issues with clear reproductions, review upstream changes for impact on our hardware, and land product-side integration for new platform releases.
  • Sustain deployed compute generations through vendor lifecycle transitions, applying security patches and backports so fielded systems stay stable and supportable while newer platforms come online.
  • Support new hardware bring-up alongside electrical engineers and our platform team, owning the boot and device tree side of getting a new board to a validated, production-flashable state.
  • Debug the hard ones: intermittent bus errors, thermal and power-related faults, boot hangs, and failures that only reproduce on one unit in the field.

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of professional software engineering with substantial embedded Linux platform, board support, or kernel-adjacent integration work.
  • Deep understanding of the embedded Linux boot chain: firmware and bootloader stages, UEFI, kernel and initrd, kernel command line, root filesystem mounting, and how each stage fails.
  • Device tree fluency: reading and modifying DTS, DTSI, and overlays for custom hardware, and connecting a pinout or pinmux specification to the resulting device tree.
  • Ability to read, patch, and debug kernel and BSP source in C, plus proficiency in Rust or C++ for the userspace services that depend on your platform.
  • Practical peripheral and bus knowledge across CAN, I2C, SPI, UART, PCIe, USB, and multi-port Ethernet, sufficient to determine whether a device is missing, misconfigured, or broken.
  • Comfort debugging real hardware: serial consoles, boot logs, dmesg archaeology, and reading schematics and datasheets to answer your own questions.
  • Demonstrated success driving technical work through another team, with the clarity and persistence to get a platform or vendor issue resolved rather than worked around.
  • Comfort owning software on hardware that is already deployed, where a regression reaches real systems and a fix has to be safe as well as correct.
  • US person status required, with eligibility to obtain and maintain a US security clearance.

Skills

Required:Embedded Linux boot chainDevice tree manipulationKernel/BSP patchingC / Rust / C++Peripheral/bus knowledge

Benefits

  • Benefits: comprehensive, competitive package including health, recovery, and other support; available at little to no cost to employees.
Last updated Sep 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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