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Senior Robotic Firmware Engineer

Anduril· AFS : Counter Intrusion Engineering : Sentry Software Engineering
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Irvine, CA$182k - $292kfull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Firmware-focused software engineer role on Anduril’s Sentry Tower systems, responsible for developing and hardening firmware for sensor boards, motor controllers, and power/monitoring hardware, and collaborating across hardware, tower software, and field teams.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and extend the firmware running on the sensor boards, motor controllers, and power and monitoring hardware inside our Sentry Tower products.
  • Take on the projects that build on top of our existing firmware baselayer, and the ones that replace parts of it, without regressing the towers already depending on it.
  • Drive our ongoing effort to harden firmware security: authenticated and verified firmware updates, protecting the interfaces a physical attacker could reach, and closing the gaps in what shipped before that was a requirement.
  • Own the firmware update path, including updates that have to be safe to apply to a unit already in the field.
  • Work with our tower software team on the boundary between firmware and the services above it, so a failure can be diagnosed from either side.
  • Collaborate with hardware engineers on board bring-up and debugging, from first power-on to a validated, production-ready board.

Qualifications

  • 4+ years experience in firmware development using C, with Rust experience or demonstrated interest in memory-safe firmware.
  • Strong understanding of microcontroller architectures (ARM, RISC-V).
  • Hands-on experience with embedded security: secure boot, signed/verified firmware updates, key storage, or hardware root of trust.
  • Proficiency in low-level networking protocols (TCP/IP, CAN, SPI, I2C).
  • Experience with RTOS and bare-metal programming.
  • Familiarity with debugging tools like JTAG, oscilloscopes, and logic analyzers.
  • Solid understanding of computer architecture and memory management.
  • US person status required, with eligibility to obtain and maintain a US security clearance.

Skills

Required:Firmware development in CRust (memory-safe firmware)Microcontroller architecturesEmbedded securityNetworking protocolsRTOS / bare-metal programmingDebugging tools

Benefits

  • See company benefits page linked in job description.
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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