Lead Mission Software Engineer, EW

Andurils Electronic Warfare (EW) division builds next-generation electronic warfare platforms hardware-enabled software-defined systems that are fielded operational and scaling the last year alone the EW team delivered 30 novel system configurations into active combat operations in under a week earned a unanimous fielding recommendation from government evaluators and secured one of the fastest contract awards in recent defense history. This is a team that ships to the fight on timelines the defense industry isnt used to are standing up a new Mission Software Engineering (MSE) organization within EW to own the full lifecycle of our software from development through deployment sustainment and customer success. This team will sit at the intersection of embedded software engineering systems integration and field operations ensuring our systems dont just work in the lab but win in contested environments.

We are looking for a Lead Mission Software Engineer to build and lead this function from the ground up. This is a foundational leadership role: you will shape the teams technical direction hire and develop engineers and personally contribute to the hardest problems. The team is growing rapidly the right person is equally comfortable architecting deployment pipelines debugging a system in the field and mentoring an IC2 through their first production incident.
You will own operational readiness and field success for EW software products working across the full stack from embedded systems and RF interfaces through networking applications and Lattice integration. Youll collaborate closely with embedded software engineers DSP/RFML engineers systems architects and growth teams to ensure our products perform reliably in operational environments and evolve rapidly based on operator feedback.
This role demands a whatever it takes mindset: executing in an expedient scalable and pragmatic way while keeping the mission top-of-mind and making sound engineering decisions to deliver successful outcomes correctly on time and with high quality.

• Build and rapidly grow the EW Mission Software Engineering team
• Set the technical direction for mission software architecture engineering standards tooling and deployment practices
• Personally contribute hands-on engineering work: system debugging software patching infrastructure and integration
• Own the delivery installation and sustainment of operational EW systems from production through field deployment
• Triage field issues drive root cause analysis and coordinate rapid fixes across software and hardware teams
• Establish processes for incident response post-incident review and preventive engineering
• Partner with operators and customers to understand mission needs translate them into engineering action and close the feedback loop between the field and development
• Collaborate with embedded software applications engineering and test/QA to ensure mission-critical fixes flow into future releases
• Coordinate with release engineering to qualify and manage builds for field deployment
• Travel up to 30% to support deployments integration events and customer engagements

• 7 years of professional experience in software engineering with meaningful time spent on production systems that cant go down
• 2 years leading or managing a technical team (hiring setting direction driving execution)
• Strong proficiency in at least two of: Haskell Rust C Go TypeScript
• Experience with Linux systems administration and debugging in production environments
• Demonstrated ability to work across the software stack embedded systems networking applications infrastructure
• Experience supporting or operating remotely deployed software/hardware systems
• Strong communication skills and comfort engaging directly with customers on technical matters
• Track record of operating effectively in ambiguous fast-moving environments
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret SCI security clearance
• Willingness to travel up to 30%

• Experience with electronic warfare systems software-defined radio or RF systems
• Experience with Haskell and/or Rust in production environments
• Familiarity with Nix/NixOS for deterministic builds and configuration management
• Experience with containerized deployments (Kubernetes Docker) in operational or edge environments
• Experience with distributed systems system-of-systems architectures or C2 integration
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and release management for safety-critical or mission-critical software
• Prior experience in defense technology military operations or similarly high-stakes operational environments
• Experience building a team or engineering function from scratch

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:

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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