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Senior Mission Software Engineer, Mission Systems

Anduril


Job Location:

Costa Mesa, CA - USA

Yearly Salary: USD 191000 - 253000
Posted: 30 September 2026 (17 hours ago)
Application Deadline: 28 December 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

ABOUT THE TEAM

Air Dominance & Strike (AD&S) is responsible for autonomous robotics systems like the Fury unmanned fighter jet and the Barracuda family of advanced effects. The AD&S Mission Systems Software team builds the distributed infrastructure that connects these vehicles to command and control. We develop the messaging orchestration and networking backbone that ties individual vehicles into coordinated multi-vehicle operations. Our engineers develop the services that integrate with Lattice OS coordinate fleets of vehicles in the field and task and manage mission payloads and effects. We are looking for engineers excited to own from cradle-to-grave resilient distributed mission software that supports the full range of AD&S initiatives: from early concept simulation to live operations and large scale fleet management.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
  • BS MS or PhD in Computer Science Software Engineering Mathematics Physics or related field.

  • 6 years of production-grade C Rust or equivalent experience in a Linux development environment

  • Experience building low-latency high performance software solutions

  • Familiarity with Kubernetes and container orchestration

  • Experience with Git & GitHub

  • Experience taking software from initial development through fielded deployment working closely with other teams (e.g. hardware systems program management) to get it into operational use

  • Travel up to 30% of time to build test and deploy capabilities in the real world

  • Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance
  • Track record of high ownership and bias for action

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
  • Experience with systemd

  • Experience building or maintaining distributed systems (message buses RPC frameworks consensus protocols or similar)

  • Familiarity with asynchronous programming models (async/await event loops futures)

  • Comfort working with Protocol Buffers and/or gRPC

  • Experience with DDS

  • Deep expertise with k3s and/or STIGd RHEL

  • Experience deploying debugging and testing software on physical systems in both lab and test site environments

  • Familiarity with government reference architectures

  • Knowledge of military systems and operational tactics

  • Active Secret U.S. security clearance

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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Required Experience:

Senior IC