Senior Software Engineer, Vehicle Management Systems
Own the Vehicle Management System for Anduril's maritime autonomous underwater vehicle: design supervisory software for health monitoring, operational modes, and fault detection/isolation/recovery, define interfaces with GNC, energy, comms and mission systems, and support SITL/HITL and at-sea testing. Real-time embedded work, with C++/Rust preferred and up to 25% travel to test sites.
- Compensation
- $191K–$253K / yr
- Location
- Costa Mesa, California, United States
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 7+ years
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or equivalent
- 7+ years of experience in vehicle management systems, flight management, or supervisory control software
- Experience with real-time embedded software for vehicle platforms
- Familiarity with FDIR design and operational mode management
- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret security clearance
- Experience setting up an integration lab
- Travel up to 25% to test sites
Nice to have
- Experience with AUV, UUV, or UAV management systems
- Working knowledge of safety-critical software design patterns
- Experience with C++ or Rust for embedded vehicle software
- Experience in defense or maritime robotics
- Experience doing a test and validation campaign
Full description
Anduril 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 TEAM
Anduril's Maritime Division is transforming American sea power to meet the defining national security challenges of our era and secure our future of maritime dominance.
We are scaling at an historic pace, anchored by Arsenal-2, our new software-defined shipyard being built in Baltimore County, Maryland. It's part of a new $6.6 billion investment in America's submarine industrial base.
Arsenal-2 is purpose-built to break long-standing industrial bottlenecks and scale production of critical components for the Navy's Virginia-class attack submarines to support fleet requirements. At the same time, it will build the industrial muscle to field our next-generation AUVs at scale.
We aren't waiting for the new shipyard to be completed. The work on this transformation starts right now, with development inside our new 160,000 square foot Proto-Factory in Orange County, California, where the team is already laying the foundation. As the prototyping hub for Arsenal-2, this facility gives us a multi-year head start, proving out the advanced manufacturing methods, digital workflows, and quality systems that will scale across our broader shipyard network.
In Anduril's Maritime Division, we are actively building America's next decisive advantage at sea—and this is the moment to join us.
ABOUT THE JOB
You will own the Vehicle Management System for a maritime autonomous vehicle. Reporting to the Cognitive Systems Lead, you will design the supervisory software that monitors vehicle health, manages operational modes, responds to faults, and coordinates across all subsystems.
The vehicle runs multi-day missions with no operator link, so the VMS is the only thing deciding whether a degraded vehicle presses on, aborts, or surfaces. Writing that logic means reasoning about failures nobody will be awake to catch.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Own VMS architecture: health monitoring, mode management, fault response
- Design vehicle state machines and operational mode transitions