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Senior Software Engineer, Vehicle Management Systems

Anduril· Maritime & Maneuver Dominance : Undersea Reconnaissance & Strike - Engineering & Operations
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Boston, MA$191k - $253kfull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Senior Software Engineers independently drive the delivery of embedded and/or safety-critical software for Anduril’s maritime autonomous systems, including vehicle management, sensor processing, state estimation, actuation, and mission interfaces, with end-to-end ownership across 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, 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 co-ordination, 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 software developmentDevice driversSystems ownership

Benefits

  • Top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including comprehensive health-related and recovery support.
  • Equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers as part of total compensation.
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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