Principal Mission Software Engineer - Air Defense

Principal Mission Software Engineer, Full Stack - Air DefenseJoin to apply for the Principal Mission Software Engineer, Full Stack - Air Defense role at Anduril IndustriesPrincipal Mission Software Engineer, Full Stack - Air Defense3 days ago Be among the first 25 applicantsJoin to apply for the Principal Mission Software Engineer, Full Stack - Air Defense role at Anduril IndustriesGet AI-powered advice on this job and more exclusive features.This range is provided by Anduril Industries. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.Base pay range$172,000.00/yr - $245,000.00/yrAnduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.ABOUT THE TEAMThe Air Defense team builds robots that find other robots and knock them out of the sky. At a time when air superiority can no longer be taken for granted, the Air Defense Team provides mission critical capabilities to warfighters. From detection to tracking, identification, deterrence, and defeat, our family of networked sensors and effectors enables our customers to rapidly close the kill chain against a broad range of Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) threats. Working across product, engineering, sales, logistics, operations, and mission success, the Air Defense team develops, tests, deploys, and sustains the Anduril Air Defense Family of Systems (FoS) in challenging operational environments worldwide.ABOUT THE JOBAs a Principal Mission Software Engineer, you will solve a wide variety of problems involving networking, autonomy, systems integration, robotics, and more, while making pragmatic engineering tradeoffs along the way. Your efforts will ensure that Anduril products seamlessly work together to achieve a variety of critical outcomes. Above all, Mission Software Engineers are driven by 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.WHAT YOU’LL DOOwn the software solutions that are deployed to customersWrite code to improve products and scale the mission capability to more customersCollaborate across multiple teams to plan, build, and test complex functionalityCreate and analyze metrics that are leveraged for debugging and monitoringTriage issues, root cause failures, and coordinate next-stepsPartner with end-users to turn needs into features while balancing user experience with engineering constraintsTravel up to 30% of time to build, test, and deploy capabilities in the real worldREQUIRED QUALIFICATIONSStrong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in areas/fields such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or PhysicsExperience building software solutions involving significant amounts of data processing and analysisAbility to quickly understand and navigate complex systems and established code basesA desire to work on critical software that has a real-world impactEligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearancePREFERRED REQUIREMENTSStrong background with focus in Physics, Mathematics, and/or Motion Planning to inform modeling & simulation (M&S) and physical systemsDeveloping and testing multi-agent autonomous systems and deploying in real-world environmentsFeature and algorithm development with an understanding of behavior treesDeveloping software/hardware for flight systems and safety critical functionalityDistributed communication networks and message standardsKnowledge of military systems and operational tacticsWHAT WE VALUE IN MISSION SOFTWARECustomer Facing - Mission Software Engineers are the software engineers closest to Anduril customers, end-users, and the technical challenges of operational scenarios.Mission First - Above all, MSEs execute their mission in an expedient, scalable, and pragmatic way. They keep the mission top-of-mind and make pragmatic and thoughtful engineering decisions to deliver successful outcomes.Small Project Wrangling = Large Project Impact - Our MSEs are the voice of our business line(s). They are the forcing function that gets us to think about how a project will transition to production and tie in to the centralized functions across the business.Embrace Challenge (and follow through) - We take responsibility for achieving the mission; Developing technical self-sufficiency across a wide range of environments. Ruthlessly prioritizing, while honing our ability to understand large systems and incorporate new components in varying levels of complexity.US Salary Range$172,000 - $245,000 USDSeniority levelSeniority levelMid-Senior levelEmployment typeEmployment typeFull-timeJob functionJob functionInformation Technology and EngineeringIndustriesDefense and Space ManufacturingReferrals increase your chances of interviewing at Anduril Industries by 2xInferred from the description for this jobMedical insuranceVision insurance401(k)Paid paternity leavePaid maternity leaveGet notified about new Software Engineer jobs in Irvine, CA.Costa Mesa, CA $97,400.00-$158,200.00 1 day agoIrvine, CA $99,500.00-$200,000.00 1 week agoIrvine, CA $116,300.00-$145,400.00 5 days agoIrvine, CA $70,000.00-$170,000.00 2 weeks agoSoftware Engineer III, Full Stack, Google AdsIrvine, CA $141,000.00-$202,000.00 2 weeks agoIrvine, CA $92,000.00-$141,000.00 6 days agoIrvine, CA $110,000.00-$130,000.00 3 weeks agoSoftware Development Engineer in Test – 2025 (US)Irvine, CA $105,000.00-$185,000.00 2 weeks agoSoftware Engineer, User Interfaces (Frontend)Newport Beach, CA $115,000.00-$130,000.00 1 week agoSoftware Engineer III, Infrastructure, CoreIrvine, CA $141,000.00-$202,000.00 1 week agoSoftware Engineer (Computational Geometry)Huntington Beach, CA $115,000.00-$185,000.00 2 months agoWe’re unlocking community knowledge in a new way. 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Created: 2025-09-17