Mission Software Engineer - Undersea Reconnaissance & Strike

The role

You will identify, reproduce, and fix field-reported bugs in autonomous underwater and surface vehicle subsystems. You will use metrics, logs, and simulation environments to find root causes and ship fixes in Rust, C++, Python, or Go.

What you will do

• Identify the subsystem responsible for field-reported anomalies
• Reproduce anomalies by replaying recorded sensor or mission data
• Use metrics and log infrastructure to reconstruct system state
• Confirm fixes in simulated or hardware-in-the-loop environments
• Write fixes in Rust, C++, Python, or Go with tests
• Determine if problems are bugs, bad configs, or deployment mismatches
• Write down root cause and fix for every issue closed
• Help build the on-call and triage runbook
• Push back to owning teams when subsystems need changes

Required qualifications

• Experience debugging code you did not write under time pressure with incomplete information
• Comfort in at least two of Rust, modern C++, Python, or Go
• Systems-debugging instincts using logs and metrics
• Exposure to observability tooling like Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, or ELK
• Linux and systems fluency
• Ability to write up what happened clearly
• Willingness to work close to hardware and sensors
• Willingness to travel 25%+ of the time on average

Nice to have

• Robotics middleware, sensor drivers, or real-time data pipeline experience
• Time in simulation-in-the-loop or hardware-in-the-loop test setups
• CI/CD and versioned deployment experience for embedded or fleet software
• Actual on-call or field-support experience for hardware that ships to real users

Benefits

• Comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees

About the company

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. Anduril Maritime builds autonomous underwater/surface vehicles.