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Staff Robotics Software Engineer - Mission Autonomy

Anduril· Maritime & Maneuver Dominance : Maneuver Dominance Engineering : Mission Software Engineering
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Costa Mesa, CA$253k - $336kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Staff Robotics Engineers lead the delivery of vehicle perception and planning capability integrated into Anduril’s autonomous platforms, acting as technical leads, senior individual contributors, and/or team leads with hands-on execution across perception, planning, simulation, testing, and system integration to deliver safe and effective vehicle autonomy.

Responsibilities

  • - Own customer success through the design and delivery of a multi-year, multi-stakeholder software roadmap that spans across multiple teams
  • - Leverage internal product and program-specific engineering teams to rapidly deliver capability beyond the scope of current platforms, with a clear path for both architecture and capability evolution over time
  • - Partner with external teams, collaborating on interfacing requirements between diverse systems and technologies
  • - Lead teams that architect, design and implement trusted safe navigation, collision avoidance, and situational awareness systems that balance constraints, restrictions and requirements in a multi-stakeholder environment
  • - Drive the development and implementation of sensor suites, perception algorithms, planning algorithms, and test fixtures to deliver safe navigation and effective operation of Anduril’s autonomous vehicles
  • - Perform high impact IC work in architecture and implementation across the whole perception and planning stack
  • - Utilize advanced techniques in computer vision, sensor fusion, and machine learning to enhance perception and planning capabilities of Anduril vehicles
  • - Conduct thorough testing and validation of perception and planning algorithms through development and use of simulation and analysis of data from real-world experiments, including evolving the data analysis tooling
  • - Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including software engineers, mechanical engineers, and systems engineers, to ensure effective system integration and testing
  • - Travel to co-locate with end-users and/or other teams up to 20% of the time

Qualifications

  • - Bachelor’s degree in Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Engineering, a relevant field, or equivalent experience
  • - 7+ years of experience in C++ and/or Python software development
  • - Familiarity with autonomous vehicle hardware and sensors such as radar, sonar, LIDAR, and cameras
  • - Demonstrated knowledge of at least one of: computer vision, sensor fusion, SLAM, motion planning, machine learning
  • - Experience in a senior perception or planning role for the delivery of a robotic system
  • - Capacity to act as the technical owner for a system, including stakeholder engagement, requirements definition, roadmap management, team co-ordination, design, implementation, sustainment and evolution
  • - Ability to collaborate with stakeholders to define and implement robust validation and verification strategies for perception and planning modules
  • - Capacity to learn and grow individually, while mentoring junior team members effectively, building team cohesion and capacity
  • - Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

Skills

Required:C++PythonAutonomous vehicle perceptionSensor fusionMotion planningSystem ownership
Nice to have:SLAMMachine learning

Benefits

  • Comprehensive, competitive benefits package (health, recovery, and related)
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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