Software Engineer, Strategic Defense
Costa Mesa · Reston · Seattle · Washington · Costa Mesa, CA (OC-00) · Reston, VA (NOVA-01) · Seattle, WA (SEA-01) · Washington, DC (DC-01) · USD 166,000-220,000 · 4+ years experience · Posted Sep 22, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 4+ years experience
- Location
- Costa Mesa · Reston · Seattle · Washington · Costa Mesa, CA (OC-00) · Reston, VA (NOVA-01) · Seattle, WA (SEA-01) · Washington, DC (DC-01)
- Salary
- USD 166,000-220,000 · Base salary
About the role
- As a Software Engineer on the Strategic Defense team at Anduril, you will solve a wide variety of problems involving networking, autonomy, systems integration, robotics, and more.
- Your efforts will ensure that Anduril products seamlessly work together to achieve critical national security outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Own the software solutions 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 50% of the time to build, test, and deploy capabilities in the real world.
Requirements
- Must be willing to travel up to 20% to Asia Pacific
- 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
- 4+ years of professional industry experience working
- Developing software/hardware for safety critical functionality
- Distributed communication networks and message standards
Benefits
- Highly competitive equity grants included in the majority of full time offers
- Top-tier benefits for full-time employees supporting health, recovery, and whatever comes next
Workplace
- Travel up to 50% of the time to build, test, and deploy capabilities in the real world.
- Must be willing to travel up to 20% to Asia Pacific.
Skills
- Go
- Rust
- Python
- React
- Angular
