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Staff Software Architect, Intelligence Systems

Anduril· AFS : Intelligence Systems Engineering : Software - Intelligence Systems
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Reston, VA$220k - $292kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Software Architect to define architectural direction for large-scale, real-time, mission-critical software spanning embedded Rust at the edge to distributed backend infrastructure, with mentorship, customer engagement, and lifecycle involvement.

Responsibilities

  • Define and drive the architectural vision for large-scale software systems that ingest, fuse, and act on data from diverse sensors in real time
  • Lead the design and implementation of performant, real-time, embedded bare-metal systems in Rust at production scale
  • Make high-leverage architectural trade-offs across performance, modularity, testability, and maintainability for mission-critical, edge-deployed systems
  • Mentor and technically lead senior engineers, setting coding standards, review processes, and CI/CD best practices across the team
  • Engage directly with customers to ensure successful outcomes for mission-critical needs
  • Troubleshoot complex, real-world system issues spanning software, math assumptions, sensor behavior, and networking
  • Contribute to all phases of the software development lifecycle including prototyping, modeling & simulation, field testing, and deployment
  • Help shape hiring and technical growth of the broader organization as it hyper scales

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience with a Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Applied/Computational Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Controls/Dynamical Systems, Statistics, or related field
  • Proven experience architecting large-scale, production-grade codebases in real-time or high-performance environments
  • Experience with modern IPC frameworks and fundamentals
  • Experience architecting and designing REST APIs for public consumption to articulate complex real-time systems
  • Experience with CI/CD, unit testing, git version control, and microservices
  • Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. Secret clearance.

Skills

Required:Software architecture for real-time systemsRustC++Distributed systemsREST APIsMentoring

Benefits

  • Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package.
  • Comprehensive, competitive benefits package (health, recovery, and other supports)
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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