Senior Robotics Software Engineer, OmenAnduril Industries · Costa Mesa, California, United States

Senior Robotics Software Engineer, Omen

🗓️ Posted 2026-10-05 Costa Mesa, California, United States Hybrid General
💰 Salary Not shared 📊 Market NA

About the Company

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. The Maneuver Dominance team at Anduril develops operationally relevant, multi-asset autonomy. Omen is Anduril's hover-to-cruise autonomous air vehicle (AAV) that packs the endurance, payload, and mission flexibility of much larger airplanes into a novel runway-independent Group 3 platform. Omen can operate from ship decks, beaches, or remote island clearings, providing true runway independence and freedom of maneuver across defense and civilian domains. Omen is the first tail-sitter aircraft with a mass-production contract, with an order of 50 systems representing a decisive investment that anchors production and accelerates the development of future systems. Anduril is seeking a Robotics Software Engineer to join the Omen Team at our Costa Mesa HQ. In this role, you will be responsible for solving a wide variety of problems involving networking, autonomy, systems integration, robotics, perception, and more, while making pragmatic engineering tradeoffs along the way. Your will ensure that Anduril products seamlessly work together to achieve a variety of critical outcomes. This will require strong systems-level knowledge and experience. If you are someone who possess a "Whatever It Takes" mindset-executing in an expedient, scalable, and pragmatic way whil

Responsibilities

  • ● Own the mission autonomy systems and services 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 up to 25% of the time to build, test, and deploy capabilities in the real world.
  • ● Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in areas/fields such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics
  • ● 8+ years of professional industry experience working with C++ or Rust programming languages.
  • ● 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.
  • ● Must be willing to travel up to 25% for testing and demonstrations.
  • ● Active Secret Clearance Required
  • ● Strong background with focus in Physics, Mathematics, and/or Motion Planning to inform modeling & simulation (M&S) and physical systems.
  • ● 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.
  • ● Experience with distributed communication networks and message standards.

Benefits

  • ● No Financial Requests: Anduril will never solicit payment or demand personal financial details (such as banking information, credit card numbers, or social security numbers) at any stage of our hiring process. Our legitimate recruitment is entirely free for candidates.
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