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Senior Robotics Software Engineer, Thunder

Anduril· Maritime & Maneuver Dominance : Maneuver Dominance Engineering : Robotics Software
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Costa Mesa, CA$220k - $292kPosted 3w ago

About the role

Senior Robotics Software Engineer to join Anduril’s Thunder Team in Costa Mesa, focusing on autonomy, networking, systems integration, perception, and mission-critical software for an autonomous attack rotorcraft.

Responsibilities

  • Own the mission autonomy systems and services that are deployed to customers.
  • Write code to improve products and scale the mission capability to more customers.
  • Collaborate across multiple teams to plan, build, and test complex functionality.
  • Create and analyze metrics that are leveraged for debugging and monitoring.
  • Triage issues, root cause failures, and coordinate next-steps.
  • Partner with end-users to turn needs into features while balancing user experience with engineering constraints.
  • Travel up to 25% of the time to build, test, and deploy capabilities in the real world.

Qualifications

  • Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics
  • 7+ years of professional industry experience working with C++ or Rust programming languages
  • Experience building software solutions involving significant amounts of data processing and analysis
  • Ability to quickly understand and navigate complex systems and established code bases
  • A desire to work on critical software that has a real-world impact
  • Must be willing to travel up to 25% for testing and demonstrations
  • Active Secret Clearance Required

Skills

Required:C++RustData processingSystems understanding

Benefits

  • Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package.
  • Top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including health and recovery support (comprehensive benefits package)
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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