Staff Flight Software Engineer, Embedded C/C++, Air Dominance & Strike
Costa Mesa · Costa Mesa, CA (OC-00) · USD 191,000-292,000 · 12+ years experience · Full-time · Posted Sep 29, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 12+ years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Costa Mesa · Costa Mesa, CA (OC-00)
- Salary
- USD 191,000-292,000 · Base salary
About the role
- As a Staff Flight Software Engineer, you will be responsible for developing the microcontroller embedded software that powers Anduril’s aircraft while working alongside a diverse team of engineers.
- The right person for this role has experience in both commercial and public sector technical environments and wants to leverage a passion for avionics and flight software.
Responsibilities
- Develop microcontroller software using an RTOS
- Develop device drivers, protocols, and APIs for aircraft sensors
- Integrate new features and sensors into flight controller software
- Create aircraft control systems
- Create SITL/HITL test fixtures
- Analyze flight test results
- Support device manufacturing efforts
- Support operational aircraft deployments
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience in industry
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, etc., or equivalent experience
- Direct experience with DO-178 standards or similar certifications
- Direct experience in aircraft embedded software or other safety critical systems
- Strong C programming skills
- Background in low-level embedded software architecture, design and development
- Low-level device driver development, experience with microcontrollers and application processors
- Comfortable with typical embedded systems tools, compilers, debuggers and IDEs
- Strong debugging skills through use of instrumentation such as oscilloscopes and protocol analyzers
- Must be able to obtain and hold a U.S. security clearance
Benefits
- Competitive base salary
- Premium benefits
- Equity
- Flexible Time off Policy and Company-wide Holidays (including a winter break)
- Premium Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision
- Retirement; 401k offering
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave
- Family planning support (Fertility planning and treatment, adoption support, gestational carrier support, and fertility preservation)
- Unlimited Provisions (healthy meals and snacks at every office)
- Relocation assistance
Skills
- C
- RTOS
- CAN
- CANFD
- ARINC-825
- ARINC-429
- MIL-STD-1553
- UART
- SPI
- I2C
- Ethernet
