Senior Robotics Software Engineer, Sentry Tower
Anduril· AFS : Counter Intrusion Engineering : Sentry Software Engineering
Irvine, CA$0Full-timePosted 2mo ago
About the role
Software Engineer specializing in Robotics to design, build, and maintain software for Sentry Tower systems in Irvine, CA, with interaction across business lines and field stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Own feature development and roll out for our products - recent examples include: building out our SITL/HITL, implementing security requirements, integrating sensors like cameras, GPS, and ADSB, creating APIs for actuating robotic arm movements, refining our build systems and more.
- Design, evaluate, and implement software that supports operation by both human and autonomous planning agents.
- Be responsible for service ownership, ensuring functionality, reliability, and alignment with customer objectives. This includes effective communication and a result oriented mindset.
- Submit well-documented, tested pull requests addressing the team’s critical issues. The ability to negotiate system design trade-offs in a technical, humble and open-minded manner is key.
- Architecture and scaling our custom real-time communication and middle-ware systems.
Qualifications
- Proficiency navigating the robotics system stack (integrating sensors, compute, and actuation), or deep expertise in low-level software and hardware interfacing.
- 4+ years working with Rust or C++.
- Solid grasp of networking principles, including CAN and Ethernet protocols, along with expertise in hardware interfacing, diagnostic tools (e.g., Wireshark, CANoe), and cyber security principles as they pertain to secure and reliable sensor data transmission.
- Demonstrated experience in designing and building software solutions for high-volume data processing and sophisticated sensor data analysis.
- Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in areas/fields such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics.
- Experience with modern build systems (e.g., Nix, CMake) and setting up CI/CD pipelines.
- US person status required, with eligibility to obtain and maintain a US security clearance.
Skills
Required:Robotics software developmentRust or C++Networking (CAN, Ethernet)Hardware interfacingCI/CD
Nice to have:Real-time systems
Benefits
- Comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensure you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next.
- Top-tier benefits for full-time employees.
Last updated Sep 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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