Robotics Software Engineer
Costa Mesa · Costa Mesa, CA (OC-00) · 3+ years experience · Full-time · Remote · Posted Oct 13, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 3+ years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Remote
- Location
- Costa Mesa · Costa Mesa, CA (OC-00)
About the role
- 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.
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.
Requirements
- Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in areas/fields such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics
- 3+ 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.
- Eligible to obtain an active U.S. Secret security clearance
Preferred qualifications
- 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.
Skills
- C++
- Rust
