Job Snapshot
Anduril is hiring a Software Engineer for its Connected Warfare Mission Command team in Washington, DC. The role centers on mission software, distributed systems, data-heavy platforms, field deployment, and customer-facing engineering. Candidates need an active U.S. Secret Clearance and roughly 3-10+ years of programming experience. The listed U.S. base salary range is $166,000-$253,000.
Role Overview
This Software Engineer role sits close to Anduril customers and end users, turning operational needs into deployed software capabilities. The work spans mesh platforms, interfaces for moving and processing data, release workflows, production support, and cross-team delivery. It is a hands-on engineering position for someone comfortable with complex existing systems, rapid iteration, and software that may be tested or deployed in real operating environments.
About Anduril Industries
Anduril Industries builds defense technology for U.S. and allied military users. Its products combine software, autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensors, networking, and command-and-control capabilities. The Connected Warfare organization focuses on systems that help mission teams operate across connected, contested, or disconnected environments. This opening is within the Mission Command team, which integrates and scales Anduril software and hardware for customer missions.
What You’ll Work On
- Build and own software across mesh networking platforms, data interfaces, and customer-deployed release processes.
- Design systems with attention to reliability, scalability, portability, testability, and long-term maintainability.
- Work directly with end users to convert difficult operational problems into practical software features.
- Coordinate with multiple engineering groups to plan, implement, test, and ship cross-functional capabilities.
- Use monitoring data, production signals, triage, and root-cause analysis to keep deployed systems healthy.
- Travel about 10%-30% for customer engagement, global team collaboration, field testing, deployment, and firsthand operational context.
Must-Have Qualifications
- Active U.S. Secret Clearance, with the ability to maintain it.
- Strong engineering foundation from professional experience or academic work in a relevant technical field such as computer science, software engineering, networking, mathematics, or physics.
- Approximately 3-10+ years of experience using multiple programming languages such as Go, Python, Java, C++, or Rust.
- Experience building software that processes, analyzes, or manages substantial volumes of data.
- Ability to become productive in complex systems and established codebases.
- Interest in building software tied to critical real-world missions.
Nice-to-Have Qualifications
- Experience designing or building distributed systems.
- Track record of delivering high-quality software quickly, especially in startup or high-growth environments.
- Strong networking depth, particularly where systems operate under unusual or constrained connectivity conditions.
- Familiarity with AWS, Azure, networking, security, distributed systems, and related infrastructure fundamentals.
- Broad understanding of computers and networks, from individual machines through multi-cluster cloud environments.
- Professional software development lifecycle experience, including version control and CI/CD systems.
- Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and data management tools and practices.
Skills Breakdown
The core skill set is backend and systems-oriented software engineering: programming across languages such as Go, Python, Java, C++, or Rust; working with data-intensive applications; navigating mature codebases; and supporting deployed production systems. Distributed systems, deep networking, AWS, Azure, monitoring, logging, CI/CD, and security fundamentals appear as preferred strengths. The 3-10+ year experience range suggests a mid-level to senior-leaning individual contributor role, though the title itself is Software Engineer.
Salary and Compensation
Anduril lists a U.S. base salary range of $166,000-$253,000 for this role. The employer states that actual offers may vary based on factors such as experience, education or training, critical skills, and business needs. The description also says highly competitive equity grants are included in most full-time offers and treated as part of total compensation. No bonus range is provided in the job content.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package described by the employer as competitive and available at little to no cost to employees.
- Health and recovery support are referenced in the employer’s benefits summary.
- Additional benefits details are directed to Anduril’s benefits information rather than fully listed in the job description.
Location and Work Model
The listed job location is Washington, District of Columbia, United States. The posting does not explicitly state a remote or hybrid policy, so candidates should treat the work model as location-based unless the employer clarifies otherwise. The role includes expected travel of 10%-30%. Visa sponsorship and relocation details are not provided in the supplied job content.