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Winter 2027 Research Engineer Co-opAnduril Industries · Santa Ana, California, United States
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Winter 2027 Research Engineer Co-op

🗓️ Posted 2026-10-15 Santa Ana, 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. Maritime Digital Production is the software and digital systems function within Anduril's Heavy Metal division. We build and deploy the technology stack that powers Anduril's shipbuilding factories: the data infrastructure that makes every machine and sensor visible in real time, the manufacturing execution system that workers and planners use every shift, the scheduling engine that replans production in minutes instead of days, and the AI systems that remove manual toil from the shop floor and business operations. That includes Serapis, our program building components for the Virginia-class submarine. We operate at the boundary between Operational Technology and Information Technology, incubating solutions close to the production line, validating them with real operators, hardening them for reliability and security, and scaling them across sites. The environment is fast, physical, and consequential. When our systems go down, production stops. The output of our work is not a dashboard: it is a ship. We are scaling from a founding team to more than 70 engineers across multiple U.S. sites. As an intern you join early, on a problem that matters to production, with a defined project and a named engineer you work with every day. We have built a computationa

Responsibilities

  • ● Profiling a C++ computational geometry pipeline on real assemblies and reporting where time and memory go
  • ● Designing and implementing algorithmic improvements to a disassembly sequence search: candidate ordering, pruning, memoization, and incremental graph updates
  • ● Decomposing large assemblies into subassemblies that can be solved independently
  • ● Parallelizing expensive geometric tests across cores without losing determinism
  • ● Building a benchmark corpus and harness that run in continuous integration and catch regressions
  • ● Gating every optimization on output equivalence against a reference set
  • ● Writing up results and presenting them to the engineering team
  • ● Must be pursuing master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or a related field.
  • ● Must be returning to school at the end of the internship to continue academic studies for at least one quarter or semester.
  • ● Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export-controlled information or facilities; U.S. clearance eligibility may be required depending on program.
  • ● Ability to complete an in-person co-op in Santa Ana, CA, in winter 2027.

Requirements

  • ● Strong modern C++, C++17 or later. You have written and debugged performance-sensitive C++ in a codebase you did not write yourself, not only coursework.
  • ● Solid algorithms and data structures, including graph algorithms such as strongly connected components and topological ordering, combinatorial search and pruning, and complexity analysis.
  • ● Computational geometry fundamentals: triangle meshes, bounding volume hierarchies and other spatial indexes, intersection and collision tests, and reasoning about directions on the sphere.
  • ● Experience profiling and optimizing code. You have used a profiler and made something measurably faster.
  • ● Research or coursework in assembly sequence planning, disassembly planning, or motion planning. If you know what a non-directional blocking graph is, or have read Wilson and Latombe or the STAAT work by Romney and colleagues, we want to talk to you.
  • ● Publications at ICRA, IROS, RSS, SoCG, or Solid and Physical Modeling, or in the Computer-Aided Design journal.
  • ● Experience with Eigen, OpenCASCADE, OpenVDB, CGAL, or a collision or bounding volume hierarchy library.
  • ● Parallel programming in C++ with Intel TBB, OpenMP, or standard threads, with attention to determinism.
  • ● Familiarity with CAD data: boundary representations versus tessellated meshes, and formats such as STEP and JT.
  • ● Experience with CMake, GoogleTest, and reproducible builds. Nix is a plus.
  • ● Python for tooling and analysis, e.g. NumPy and trimesh.
  • ● Familiarity with infinitesimal motion analysis or rotational motions in assembly planning.

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.
  • ● Please always verify communications:
  • ● Direct from Anduril: If you receive an email from one of our recruiters, it will only come from an @anduril.com address.
  • ● Via Agency Partner: If contacted by a recruiting agency for an Anduril role, their email will clearly identify their agency. If you suspect any suspicious activity, please verify the agency's authenticity by reaching out to [email protected] .
  • ● Exercise Caution with Unsolicited Outreach: If you receive any communication that appears suspicious, contains grammatical errors, or makes unusual requests, do not engage. Always confirm the sender's email domain is @anduril.com before providing any personal information or clicking on links.
  • ● What to Do If You Suspect Fraud: Should you encounter any questionable or fraudulent outreach claiming to be from Anduril, please report it immediately to [email protected] . Your proactive caution is invaluable in protecting your personal information and upholding the security and trustworthiness of our recruitment efforts.