Principal Software Engineer - Maritime

Company: Tbwa Chiat/Day Inc
Location: Costa Mesa
Posted on: November 6, 2024

Job 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.At Anduril we are developing un-crewed maritime and air domain systems that leverage unsupervised autonomy for the delivery of long endurance, multi-mission capability to our customers. These projects require a Principle Software Engineer with deep robotics experience to architect and deliver critical systems and sub-systems. The Principle Software Engineer strives to leverage their experience with Vehicle Management Systems to rapidly architect, design, deliver, support, and evolve next generation autonomous vehicles through the entire product life-cycle.WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Act as a subject matter expert for your areas of expertise as they relate to the delivery of Anduril's software enabled capabilities, including areas such as hardware selection, compute, storage and network architecture, service orchestration, application logic and other software concerns
• Empathize with end-users and drive solutions that balance their needs with external constraints, restrictions and requirements in a multi-stakeholder environment
• Own software enabled solutions that are deployed to customers, optimizing for the delivery of value to the end-user
• Design and implement scalable software that rapidly delivers capability beyond the scope of current platforms, with a clear path for both architecture and capability evolution over time
• Contribute to the design and development of existing software services across Anduril, with the aim of developing components that are re-usable across multiple Anduril product lines
• Develop software that runs on- and off- robotic platforms, using a variety of technologies
• Contribute to the design, implementation and execution of development processes for the initial delivery and subsequent iteration of vehicle and mission software, including full lifecycle testing, monitoring and operation
• Create test and simulation fixtures that operate with both software- and hardware-in-the-loop
• Support vehicle manufacturing and deployment
• Travel to co-locate with end-users up to 20% of the time
• Work as a member of a multi-disciplinary engineering team, including as a mentor for Software Engineers from differing backgroundsREQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
  • Bachelor's degree in Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Engineering, a relevant field, or equivalent experience
  • Extensive professional experience working as a Software Engineer with one or more domains and/or technologies of expertise
  • Systems and/or application programming skills including algorithms, data structures, concurrency, scaling, testing, infrastructure, software design and system design
  • Experience troubleshooting and analyzing remotely deployed software systems
  • Capacity to work holistically on software enabled capabilities up and down the software stack and through lifecycle through design, implementation, operation and sustainment
  • Capacity to act as the technical owner for a software service, including stakeholder engagement, requirements definition, roadmap management, team co-ordination, design, implementation, sustainment and evolution
  • Capacity learn and grow individually, while mentoring junior team members effectively, building team cohesion and capacity
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a US Government Security ClearancePREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
    • Experience writing backend services or embedded software in C++, Rust and/or Go
    • Experience writing frontend applications using Typescript and React
    • Experience with the design, implementation and operation of horizontally scaled cloud technologies
    • Experience with the design, implementation and support of embedded software, particularly in the field of robotics
    • Experience within the product delivery lifecycle including manufacturing, system acceptance, deployment, and sustainment
    • Desire to learn and grow in to other roles that require experience as a Senior Software Engineer, such as Principal Software Engineer and/or Engineering Manager
    • Desire to grow in to a Tech-Lead-Manager role, with responsibility for line management of engineers, in addition to deliveryAnduril is an equal-opportunity employer, and we encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply. If you are someone passionate to work on problems that matter, we'd love to hear from you!
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