Senior Software Engineer, Simulation Platform
Job Location:
Costa Mesa, CA - USA
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Job Summary
ABOUT THE TEAM
The Simulation Platform team owns the core architecture and infrastructure of Andurils high-fidelity multi-domain military mission simulator. It models hundreds of entities--aircraft ships submarines satellites ground vehicles--moving sensing communicating and engaging across realistic physical environments. The simulator powers training mission planning autonomy development and hardware-in-the-loop testing across Andurils product portfolio. It connects to live systems integrates with Andurils Lattice platform and runs inside a GUI for interactive scenario authoring. Mission Sim is a large mature C20 codebase with an Entity-Component-System architecture a stable C ABI plugin system embedded scripting and a variety of physics-based models. Keeping this system fast correct extensible and pleasant to develop against at scale with a growing team of model developers is our job.
WHAT YOULL DO
- Model authoring tools an early effort you will help stand up to extend the Sim frontend with UI for authoring and tuning Mission Sim models. You will negotiate extension APIs with the GUI team and build an ergonomic UI atop them working alongside Simulation Modeling engineers.
- Custom Entity-Component-System architecture that underpins the entire simulator: entity lifecycle component storage and the update loop
- Plugin and SDK development - maintaining a versioned C ABI which enables external teams to extend the simulator
- Performance and scale keeping the simulation loop fast enough for real-time and faster-than-real-time execution with hundreds of concurrent entities; reasoning about memory layout cache behavior and contention as entity counts grow
- Integration architecture gRPC services DIS protocol interoperability networking messaging and file recording for analysis and playback
- Support domain experts in integrating new and enhancing existing capability models
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 3 years of professional experience with C20 and strong C skills; you should be comfortable with templates move semantics smart pointers and the kinds of design decisions that show up in framework code
- Experience designing internal APIs and frameworks that other engineers build on with focus on backwards-compatibility and ergonomics
- Solid understanding of systems programming fundamentals: memory management shared libraries ABI stability linking interfacing with the operating system
- Comfort with linear algebra and applied math
- Familiarity with Linux-based C development toolchains
- Ability to reason about performance-sensitive code cache behavior memory layout algorithmic complexity
- Clear technical communication and ability to work in a large shared codebase and negotiate architectural decisions that affect a growing team
- Eligibility to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Government Secret security clearance
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 5 years of professional experience with C20
- Experience leading or mentoring engineers on a project setting technical direction and bringing others along
- Comfort operating in ambiguity scoping the problem the approach and the interfaces when none exist yet and driving them to a decision
- Experience with military simulation defense modeling & simulation or related domains
- Experience with Entity-Component-System architectures or game engine design patterns
- Experience in designing and implementing GUI-supported workflows
- Familiarity with gRPC DIS (IEEE 1278.1) distributed simulation standard
- Experience with Python/C interop (pybind11 embedded interpreters)
- Familiarity with behavior trees or autonomous agent architectures
- Developing in Nix
- Experience with numerical simulation physics modeling or scientific computing
US Salary Range
$191000 - $253000 USD
The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience education and/or training critical skills and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Andurils total compensation package. Additionally Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees including:
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