Senior Robotics Software Engineer, Thunder
Costa Mesa · Costa Mesa, CA (OC-00) · USD 220,000-292,000 · 7+ years experience · Full-time · Posted Sep 23, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 7+ years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Costa Mesa · Costa Mesa, CA (OC-00)
- Salary
- USD 220,000-292,000 · Base salary
About the role
- Anduril is seeking a Senior Robotics Software Engineer to join the Thunder Team at the Costa Mesa HQ.
- You will be responsible for solving a wide variety of problems involving networking, autonomy, systems integration, robotics, perception, and making pragmatic engineering tradeoffs.
- This role requires strong systems-level knowledge to ensure Anduril products seamlessly work together to achieve critical outcomes.
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
- 7+ 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.
- Active Secret Clearance Required
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.
Benefits
- Highly competitive equity grants included in the majority of full time offers
- Top-tier benefits for full-time employees supporting health, recovery, and more
Workplace
- Travel up to 25% of the time to build, test, and deploy capabilities in the real world.
Skills
- C++
- Rust
- Networking
- Autonomy
- Systems Integration
- Robotics
- Perception
- Motion Planning
- Behavior Trees
