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Mission Software Engineer - Undersea Reconnaissance & Strike

Anduril· Maritime & Maneuver Dominance : Undersea Reconnaissance & Strike - Engineering & Operations
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Washington, DC$166k - $220kfull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Anduril Industries seeks a Mission Software Engineer to diagnose, reproduce, fix, and ship real-field bugs across subsystems in maritime autonomous systems. The role emphasizes cross-subsystem fluency, hands-on debugging with hardware-in-the-loop, and contributing to root-cause analysis and on-call runbooks.

Responsibilities

  • Take a field-reported anomaly (sensor stopped publishing, mission faulted mid-track, data stream drifted for no obvious reason) and figure out what subsystem it's actually in - not just where it was reported.
  • Reproduce it for real by replaying recorded sensor/mission data through the live pipeline, visualizing results, and avoiding guesses.
  • Use per-service metrics, dashboards, and centralized logs to reconstruct system state at the moment of failure.
  • Confirm the fix in a simulated environment first, with hardware-in-the-loop where needed, before deployment to real vehicles.
  • Write the fix in the subsystem's native language (Rust, C++, Python, Go, etc.) with tests, through CI, and via standard versioned rollout.
  • Determine whether the problem is a bug, bad config, or deployment mismatch, and fix at the correct layer.
  • Document root cause and fix for every closed issue to inform future reliability and test coverage.
  • Push back to owning teams when a subsystem change is required rather than patching symptoms.
  • Travel 25%+ of the time.

Qualifications

  • Real experience debugging code you didn’t write under time pressure with incomplete information.
  • Comfort in at least two of Rust, modern C++, Python, Go to read and fix bugs (not necessarily expert in all four).
  • Systems-debugging instincts: pull logs and metrics, reconstruct what happened, reproduce offline from recorded data.
  • Exposure to observability tooling (Prometheus/Grafana-class metrics, Loki/ELK-class logs).
  • Linux and systems fluency; bonus for declarative/immutable OS setups (NixOS-style).
  • Ability to clearly write up what happened and the root cause without padding.
  • Willingness to work close to hardware and sensors, even without maritime/robotics background.
  • Willingness to travel 25%+.

Skills

Required:Bug reproduction and root cause analysisCross-subsystem debuggingObservability and debugging toolsHardware-in-the-loop / simulationProgramming languages
Nice to have:CI/CD and tests
Last updated Sep 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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