Senior Software Engineer, RAIL
Job Location:
Costa Mesa, CA - USA
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Job Summary
ABOUT THE TEAM
The Tactical Recon & Strike team at Anduril develops aerial small drones (Group 1-3) and all equipment to test deploy and operate. The team is responsible for taking products like Ghost Anvil Bolt and Altius from concepts to operational systems. We work in close coordination with specialist teams to solve some of the hardest problems facing our customers. We are looking for software engineers hardware engineers roboticists and front-end mobile developers who are excited about creating a powerful robotics platform that can be tasked and viewed in real-time through a variety of interfaces
ABOUT THE JOB
RAIL has two primary customers:
- Mission Autonomy (MA) Mission Autonomy at Anduril is responsible for coordinating mission-level behaviors by manipulating hardware. For example fly to these waypoints enter radio silence mode or arm munitions.
- Robotics Business Lines These teams own specific Anduril robots end-to-end as well as individual pieces of hardware on those robots.
RAIL bridges the gap between Mission Autonomy and diverse sets of hardware by creating common hardware interfaces. To allow Anduril to effortlessly integrate with new hardware. RAIL enables Anduril to scale and deploy ambitious new robot designs on short timelines by leveraging learnings and investments from our existing portfolio of diverse hardware and products.
For example Anduril procures autopilots from a multitude of different hardware vendors. Each autopilot has a subtly different hardware interface some use MAVLINK some use STANAG others use bespoke vendor-specific serial interfaces. Despite having different interfaces they all provide standard functionality that flies along a set of waypoints.
As an author of advanced mission behavior I shouldnt care whether my autopilot speaks MAVLINK or STANAG I just want my vehicle to get flying. RAIL abstracts away these subtle hardware differences from Mission Autonomy by providing a shared common interface as a layer between Mission Autonomy and low-level hardware integrations. RAIL also provides other valuable features such as hardware custody management and access-control semantics shared-memory IPC approaches and flexible observability plugins to name a few.
RAIL is uniquely situated within Anduril. As the layer between Mission Autonomy and low-level-hardware at Anduril you will find yourself developing a broad set of expertise working with nearly every robotics team at Anduril. To date weve flown all across our US offices and test sites to launch new initiatives with Ghost Altius Dive and Fury. Come help RAIL build the future of robot autonomy at Anduril!
WHAT YOULL DO
- Own major feature development and rollout of large features for our products RAIL works with nearly every robotics team at Anduril humility empathy and strong collaboration skills are key to success on the RAIL team!
- Write and maintain core systems that all robotics platforms at Anduril will use.
- Work closely with our vehicle software teams during product development understanding their needs and delivering high leverage software they are able to use bring their product to market.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 4 years of C or Rust experience in a Linux development environment you will be expected to learn Rust on the job but prior Rust experience is not required
- BS in Robotics Computer Science Mechatronics Electrical Engineering Mechanical Engineering or related field
- Proven understanding of data structures algorithms concurrency and code optimization
- Experience troubleshooting and analyzing remotely deployed software systems
- Experience working with and testing electrical and mechanical systems
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience programming for embedded and physical devices
- Eligible to obtain and hold a US DoD Security Clearance
- Python and/or Go experience
- Multi-agent coordination of UAVs
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:
Benefits
At Anduril we invest in our people. Our comprehensive competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures youre supported in health recovery and whatever comes next.For more information Explore Our Benefits.
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Senior IC
