Senior Forward Deployed Software Engineer, Strategic Defense

The role

You will deploy and support products globally, working with engineering teams to iteratively improve them. You will support military air defense projects through technical operations, field maintenance, and customer training.

What you will do

• Support military air defense projects by executing technical operations, conducting field maintenance, providing customer field support and training
• Tackle complex issues related to hardware, software, and networking in unstructured situations
• Communicate field issue status to internal and customer teams
• Support the development and implementation of comprehensive operational and logistical plans
• Ensure high availability and performance of air defense systems
• Maintain support plans for hardware and software
• Assist in event planning and resource allocation
• Perform incident response root-cause analyses for defense systems in the field
• Conduct post-incident reviews and implement preventive measures
• Maintain up-to-date documentation

Required qualifications

• Ability to travel to Asia Pacific region for up to one months at a time (up to 50% of the year)
• Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in areas/fields such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics
• Experience working with a variety of programming languages such as Go, Rust, or Python
• Experience working with frontend frameworks such as React or Angular
• Experience building software solutions involving significant amounts of data processing and analysis
• Ability to quickly understand and navigate complex systems and established code bases
• A desire to work on critical software that has a real-world impact

Nice to have

• 5+ years of experience of strong problem solving in unstructured environments at the interface of hardware, software, and networking
• Fluent in Mandarin
• B.S. in computer science, or related technical field
• Network+ and Linux+ or equivalent experience
• Prior military or overseas contracting experience
• Experience with Kubernetes

Benefits

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

Before you apply

• By submitting your application, you consent to Anduril Industries using a third-party service provider to conduct pre-employment risk, integrity, and due diligence screening

About the company

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. Their family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system.