Senior Robotics Software Engineer, Sentry Tower (SITL/HITL)

The role

You will own and grow simulation and hardware test infrastructure for robotic Sentry Towers. You will design functional test suites, scenario libraries, and diagnostic tooling for software-in-the-loop and hardware-in-the-loop environments.

What you will do

• Own and grow SITL environments including product variants and scenarios
• Build functional coverage on the HITL bench for motion control, sensor bring-up, and firmware updates
• Own end to end CI integration including scheduling, dependency chaining, and result reporting
• Grow the test platform continuously for new compute generations and payloads
• Make failures diagnosable through log and serial console capture
• Partner with hardware and manufacturing engineers to stand up physical HITL benches
• Partner with firmware, platform, and business line teams to support test framework usage

Required qualifications

• 4+ years of professional software engineering building test infrastructure, CI systems, or simulation for systems involving real hardware
• Proficiency in Python for test authoring and automation
• Working ability in Rust or C++ to read and debug services
• Experience automating tests against physical hardware
• Strong CI/CD engineering skills
• Experience with declarative configuration and reproducible builds
• Solid Linux systems fundamentals including systemd, networking, filesystems, and boot
• US person status required
• Eligibility to obtain and maintain a US security clearance

Nice to have

• Experience with robotics or vehicle simulation (Unreal, Unity, Gazebo, Isaac Sim, or custom)
• Familiarity with NVIDIA Jetson provisioning and flashing workflows
• Experience with virtualization and VM-based integration testing
• Background in hardware test engineering, HIL rigs, or manufacturing test systems
• Familiarity with CAN, serial protocols, or bus-level diagnostic tooling
• Nix or NixOS
• Adjacent depth in Bazel, Buildroot, Yocto, or infrastructure-as-code tooling (Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi)

Benefits

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

Before you apply

• US person status required
• Eligibility to obtain and maintain a US security clearance
• Consent to 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.