Anduril Industries
Software Engineer, Active Clearance, Air Defense
About this role
Anduril Industries seeks a Software Engineer with active Secret clearance to develop mission-critical air defense software for detecting and neutralizing aerial threats. You'll own deployed solutions, collaborate across teams, and travel 30% to test capabilities in real-world operational environments.
What you'll do
- Own and maintain software solutions deployed to customers
- Write code to improve products and scale capabilities to additional customers
- Collaborate with multiple teams to plan, build, and test complex functionality
- Create and analyze metrics for debugging and system monitoring
- Triage issues, identify root causes, and coordinate resolution steps
- Travel 30% of time for on-site building, testing, and deployment activities
What they're looking for
- Python, Rust, Go, or similar programming languages
- Data processing and analysis
- Complex systems navigation and code base comprehension
- Software architecture and design
- NixOS (preferred)
- Autonomous systems development (preferred)
- Flight systems and safety-critical software (preferred)
- Distributed communication networks (preferred)
Benefits
- Competitive salary range $166,000–$220,000
- Equity grants included in most offers
- Comprehensive benefits package at minimal cost to employees
- Work on mission-critical defense technology with real-world impact
- Collaborative, fast-paced environment
Opens the application — the Jobs AI extension fills it for you. Set up autofill
Opens the official application on the employer’s site. No login required.
Anduril Industries
Anduril Industries builds autonomous defense systems including underwater vehicles, unmanned aircraft, and electronic warfare platforms for the Department of Defense. The company is hiring across mechanical engineering, mission operations, software development, technical leadership, and advanced manufacturing roles to support the design, deployment, and production of these mission-critical systems.
- Website
- anduril.com
Likely interview questions
- Tell us about a time you worked with multiple programming languages on a single project. How did you decide which language to use for different components?
- Describe your experience building software systems that process and analyze large amounts of data. What challenges did you face and how did you overcome them?