Compensation Overview

Anduril’s Crucible org focuses on Systems Integration and Integrated Verification and Validation. In less dense terms, our team runs war gaming exercises every six weeks to integrate and validate our latest capabilities. In order to effectively operate these war games, Crucible builds and maintains a suite of software that powers a fleet of surrogate UAV, which are used to validate the latest capabilities being developed as a part of our Mission Autonomy and Command & Control platforms. If you are passionate about systems integration, verification and validation or simply love being at the intersection of Product and Delivery, Crucible may be the org for you!

As the C2 Senior Software Engineer you will be responsible for working closely with our most innovative customers in shaping requirements and pushing the boundaries for the Lattice platform. The right person for this role has had first hand experience developing or deploying software in secure spaces. If you thrive in ambiguity, have a love for working closely with customers and characterizes themselves as a Systems thinker, then this role is for you.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Sit at the crossroads between business stakeholders and product engineering teams
• Design and own Anduril’s internal simulated Command & Control network (Crucible Network) used for internal R&D and testing
• Work with business partners to understand requirements of forward deployed systems and build representative features into the Crucible Network
• Coordinate and execute regular integration events involving various levels of software and hardware, from full-software simulations at Anduril HQ to full hardware-in-the-loop demonstrations at test sites
• Design, build and maintain a high availability common infrastructure environment utilizing modern infrastructure technologies and best practices to automate provisioning and configuring of infrastructure (infrastructure-as-code and configuration-as-code) for both on premise and the Cloud.
• Autonomously execute on broad and/or ambiguous requirements from internal engineering, program office, and third party corporate partners to own successful delivery of outcomes on multiple programs simultaneously
• Understand technical implementation at the architectural level and propose technical alternatives when necessary; ask questions that clarify priorities
• Translate requirements down to Platform Component teams
• Coordinate with Engineering and QA teams on final release artifacts
• Coordinate with Product teams on Release Notes and other supporting documentation
• Hold a high bar to ensure that what is built by product teams lands perfectly with customers the first time
• Act as a customer advocate
• Perform analysis on systems to document all functions and define interfaces for integration, testing and quality assurance. Define Systems Engineering vision for requirements and verification for C2

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline (OR equivalent experience)
• 5+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, Go, Typescript, C++, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• Experience developing software in secure spaces
• Cross functional leadership experience
• Experience with basic tooling such as GitHub, CircleCI and other DevOps relevant tools
• Demonstrated proficiency in the application of engineering standards into engineering processes or requirements
• Experience assessing software design and performing code reviews
• Experience with modern software development practices and designs, unit testing, integration test, and release processes
• Experience in building programs for software deliverables from the ground up
• Must possess and be able to maintain a U.S. TS Security clearance

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Love of ambiguous problems
• Experience interfacing with customers and business stakeholders
• Experience working across product teams to define requirements
• Ability to work within organizations with minimal structure and with minimal direction
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong technical, analytical and quantitative skills with the ability to use data and metrics to back up assumptions, recommendations and drive decisions