Senior Flight Software Engineer
Anduril· Maritime & Maneuver Dominance : Undersea Reconnaissance & Strike - Engineering & Operations
Quincy, MA$191k - $253kFull-timePosted 2w ago
About the role
Senior Software Engineers independently drive the delivery of a variety of embedded and/or safety critical software integrated into Anduril's Maritime Division products, contributing as a technical lead across the full product life-cycle with end-to-end ownership of major subsystems or systems.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement trusted, safety critical Vehicle Management Systems that balance constraints, restrictions and requirements in a multi-stakeholder environment.
- Design and implement scalable vehicle sub-systems including sensor processing, state estimation, contingency management, actuation, payload interfaces, and mission systems interfaces.
- Contribute to the design and development of existing software components across Anduril, with the aim of developing components that are reusable across multiple Anduril product lines.
- Develop real-time embedded software using an RTOS.
- Develop device drivers and interfaces to a variety of sensors and actuators.
- Create test and simulation fixtures that operate with both software-and hardware-in-the-loop.
- Support vehicle manufacturing and deployment.
- Work as a member of a multi-disciplinary engineering team, including as a mentor for Software Engineers from differing backgrounds.
- 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.
- Experienced and proficient at writing C.
- Experience with Real Time Operating Systems (RTOS).
- Familiarity with communications busses and protocols (e.g. CAN, CANFD, UART/RS232/RS422/RS485, SPI, QSPI, I2C, Ethernet, ARINC-825, ARINC-429, MIL-STD-1553, etc).
- Systems programming skills including algorithms, data structures, concurrency and optimization.
- Capacity to act as the technical owner for a software component, including stakeholder engagement, requirements definition, roadmap management, team coordination, design, implementation, sustainment and evolution.
- Capacity to learn and grow individually, while mentoring junior team members effectively, contributing to team cohesion and capacity.
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.
Skills
Required:C programmingRTOSEmbedded systemsSensor interfacesMulti-disciplinary collaboration
Benefits
- US Salary Range $191,000—$253,000 USD
- Equity grants included in majority of full-time offers; part of total compensation package.
- Top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including: comprehensive, competitive benefits package.
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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