Senior Forward Deployed Software Engineer, Strategic Defense
Costa Mesa · Washington · Costa Mesa, CA (OC-00) · Seattle, WA (SEA-01) · Washington, DC (DC-01) · USD 191,000-253,000 · 5+ years experience · Posted Sep 25, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 5+ years experience
- Location
- Costa Mesa · Washington · Costa Mesa, CA (OC-00) · Seattle, WA (SEA-01) · Washington, DC (DC-01)
- Salary
- USD 191,000-253,000 · Base salary
About the role
- Anduril’s Strategic Defense business line is seeking a Forward Deployed Software Engineer to deploy and support products worldwide.
- You will go forward with products early on in their lifecycle and work with engineering teams to iteratively improve them over time.
- You are expected to take ownership of delivering the technical solution amidst innumerable and unpredictable challenges.
Responsibilities
- Support military air defense projects by executing technical operations, conducting field maintenance, providing customer field support and training
- Tackle complex issues related to hardware, software, and networking in unstructured situations, driving them to resolution
- Communicate field issue status to internal and customer teams, keeping them informed
- Support the development and implementation of comprehensive operational and logistical plans for various events
- Ensure high availability and performance of air defense systems
- Maintain support plans for hardware and software
- Assist in event planning and resource allocation, keeping key stakeholders informed about Technical Operations requirements
- Incident response root-cause analyses (RCAs) for defense systems in the field
- Conduct post-incident reviews and implement preventive measures
- Maintain up-to-date documentation
Requirements
- Ability to travel to Asia Pacific region for up to one months at a time (up to 50% of the year)
- Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in areas/fields such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics
- Experience working with a variety of programming languages such as Go, Rust, or Python
- Experience working with frontend frameworks such as React or Angular
- 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
Preferred qualifications
- 5+ years of experience of strong problem solving in unstructured environments at the interface of hardware, software, and networking
- B.S. in computer science, or related technical field
- Network+ and Linux+ or equivalent experience preferred
- Prior military or overseas contracting experience
- Experience with Kubernetes
Benefits
- Top-tier benefits for full-time employees
- Highly competitive equity grants
Workplace
- Required travel to Asia Pacific region for up to one month at a time (up to 50% of the year)
Skills
- Go
- Rust
- Python
- React
- Angular
- Kubernetes
