Senior Software Engineer, Active Clearance, Air Defense
- Salary
- $191,000 - $253,000
- Level
- Senior
Not stated in the posting: work type, visa.
Open. First seen 7 March 2026.
About the role
Anduril Industries's standard text
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center.
As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.
ABOUT THE TEAM
The Air Defense team builds robots that detect airborne threats and neutralizes them. At a time when air superiority can no longer be taken for granted, the Air Defense Team provides mission critical capabilities to warfighters. From detection to tracking, identification, deterrence, and defeat, our family of networked sensors and effectors enables our customers to rapidly close the kill chain against a broad range of Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) threats.
Working across product, engineering, sales, logistics, operations, and mission success, the Air Defense team develops, tests, deploys, and sustains the Anduril Air Defense Family of Systems (FoS) in challenging operational environments worldwide.
ABOUT THE JOB
We are hiring for a Senior Software Engineer to join rapidly growing team in Irvine, CA. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will solve a wide variety of problems involving networking, autonomy, systems integration, robotics, and more, while making pragmatic engineering tradeoffs along the way. Your efforts will ensure that Anduril products seamlessly work together to achieve a variety of critical outcomes. Above all, Mission Software Engineers are driven by a “Whatever It Takes” mindset—executing in an expedient, scalable, and pragmatic way while keeping the mission top-of-mind and making sound engineering decisions to deliver successful outcomes correctly, on-time, and with high quality.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Own the software solutions that are deployed to customers
- Write code to improve products and scale the mission capability to more customers
- Collaborate across multiple teams to plan, build, and test complex functionality
- Create and analyze metrics that are leveraged for debugging and monitoring
- Triage issues, root cause failures, and coordinate next-steps
- Partner with end-users to turn needs into features while balancing user experience with engineering constraints
- Travel 30% of time to build, test, and deploy capabilities in the real world
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in areas/fields such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Computer Engineering
- 7+ years working with a variety of programming languages such as Python, Rust, Go, etc.
- Experience building software solutions involving significant amounts of data processing and analysis
- Ability to quickly understand and navigate complex systems and established code bases
- A desire to work on critical software that has a real-world impact
- Active U.S. Secret clearance
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience with NixOS
- Developing and testing multi-agent autonomous systems and deploying in real-world environments
- Feature and algorithm development with an understanding of behavior trees
- Developing software/hardware for flight systems and safety critical functionality
- Distributed communication networks and message standards
- Knowledge of military systems and operational tactics
US Salary Range
$191,000—$253,000 USD
The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:
Anduril Industries's standard text
Benefits
At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next. For more information, Explore Our Benefits.
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What this role asks for
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Golang · Rust
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Python
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Computer Vision
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The team: AFS : Air Defense Engineering : Software Engineering
This role is one of 10 open in AFS : Air Defense Engineering : Software Engineering.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Computer Vision (10 of 10), Rust (7 of 10), Linux (5 of 10), C++ (4 of 10), Golang (4 of 10), Linux Kernel (4 of 10), Python (4 of 10)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Senior Software Developer in Test, Air Defense posted Jul 21
- Software Engineer, Robotics posted Jun 8
- Senior Software Engineer, Robotics posted Dec 8
- Staff Software Engineer, Robotics posted Dec 8
- Staff Software Engineer, Active Clearance, Air Defense posted Oct 15
- Software Engineer, Active Clearance, Air Defense posted Oct 14
- Software Engineer, Robotics posted Oct 8
- Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack posted Oct 1
- Software Engineer, Full Stack posted Aug 22
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