Senior Robotics Software Engineer, Roadrunner

Senior Robotics Software Engineer, Roadrunner

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.

WHY WE'RE HERE:
The Vehicle Autonomy (Robotics) team at Anduril develops aerial and ground-based robotic systems. The team is responsible for taking products like Roadrunner, Ghost, Anvil, and our Sentry Tower from paper sketches to operational systems. We work in close coordination with specialist teams like Perception, Autonomy, and Manufacturing to solve some of the hardest problems facing our customers.

We are looking for software engineers and roboticists excited about working within a powerful robotics stack that includes computer vision, motion planning, SLAM, controls, estimation, and secure communications. In this role you will work to deliver autonomy services and system interfaces that enable collaborative unmanned systems to deliver user-supervised multi-mission capabilities to our customers.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Design and deliver autonomy solutions for mobile robotic systems through behavior modeling and execution within mission critical software.
• Apply and contribute to core libraries that are distributed across all robotics platforms at Anduril to deliver product specific capabilities for autonomous behaviors, health monitoring, and sensor integration.
• Develop APIs for inter- and intra-process communications between robotic systems in a time-critical low-latency environment.
• Create test and simulation capabilities that operate within both software- and hardware-in-the-loop (SITL/HITL) test fixtures.
• Collaborate across multiple teams to plan, build, and test complex functionality for user-supervised autonomous systems.
• Create and analyze metrics that are leveraged for debugging and monitoring.
• Triage issues, root cause failures, and coordinate next-steps within a collaborative fast-paced development team.
• Partner with end-users to turn needs into features while balancing user experience with engineering constraints.
• Travel up to 30% of time to build, test, and deploy capabilities in the real world.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• BS in Robotics, Computer Science, or related field.
• 5+ years of experience with Rust or C++ in a Linux development environment.
• Proven understanding of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, distributed systems, concurrency, and code optimization.
• Familiarity with behavior trees and autonomous system architectures.
• 5+ years of experience with the design, implementation and support of embedded software, particularly in the field of robotics.
• 5+ years of experience writing frontend applications using Typescript and React.
• Capacity to learn and grow individually, while mentoring junior team members effectively, building team cohesion and capacity.
• Must be eligible to obtain and hold a US DoD Security Clearance.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• MS or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, or related field with strong computer programming experience.
• Experience in one or more of the following: motion planning, perception, localization, mapping, controls, and related system performance metrics.
• Experience programming for embedded and physical devices.
• Multi-agent coordination of UAVs.

US Salary Range

$168,000 - $252,000 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.

Anduril is an equal-opportunity employer committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. The Anduril team is made up of incredibly talented and unique individuals, who together are disrupting industry norms by creating new paths towards the future of defense technology. All qualified applicants will be treated with respect and receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, uniform service, Veteran status, age, or any other protected characteristic per federal, state, or local law.