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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.\nAbout The Team\nThe Sentry Tower Software team develops robotic systems that provide force protection capabilities, monitoring the perimeter of secure areas, land or sea, for approaching people, vehicles, and vessels. We live in a world where security officers are increasingly overwhelmed by sensor data feeds. Our products leverage advanced sensor fusion and autonomy to seamlessly render activity in the environment to Lattice's common operating picture.\nAbout the Job\nNot every Sentry Tower does the same job. The same core platform that watches a perimeter for people and vehicles also underpins our ground-based air defense variants, where the tower's mission is detecting and tracking aircraft, and the sensor payload, the radar integration, and the configuration all shift accordingly. We're hiring a Software Engineer to develop and own the software for those variants, funded by and delivered to our Air Defense program. The threat they exist for is the cheap, fast, hard-to-see aircraft that has changed what defending a fixed site means. Detection has to happen with enough time left to do something about it, which puts the burden on how well the payload, the tracking, and the configuration actually work together on a real tower.\nYou will work in the same declarative NixOS platform the rest of the team builds on, owning your variants' slice of it: product configuration, radar and camera payload integration, networking, manufacturing test hooks, and the software update path. Some of this is new feature work driven by program requirements, and some of it is consolidation, because these variant configurations grew up separately from our modern platform base, and moving them onto it means understanding both well enough to prove nothing was lost in the move. This program delivers several products, a few of them tower variants, and those variants are what you'll work on. The result is that you end up knowing how they are put together better than anyone, which is genuinely useful to a team this size.\nThis is a good role for an engineer who wants breadth. You'll touch the radar and camera services, the network configuration, the build system, and the manufacturing and field tooling, with an experienced team around you owning each of those domains in depth. Travel is light, roughly 10% and mostly local, to test sites and the manufacturing floor rather than overseas.\nThe honest shape of the role: the scope is the program's tower variants rather than the whole product line, and the schedule comes substantially from the contract rather than from what you would pick next. Most days are integration work, configuration, and support rather than novel algorithms. What you get in exchange is unusual breadth and products you own end to end. If you want to go deep on one technical specialty, this is not that role.\nOur Product: https://www.anduril.com/sentry\nWHAT YOU'LL DO\nOwn the software configuration for the Air Defense tower variants: product definitions, payload and sensor configuration, networking, and image builds in our declarative platform.\nIntegrate and support the variants' sensor payloads, particularly radar and infrared camera services, including the configuration and behavior differences that separate them from our perimeter security products.\nDevelop features driven by Air Defense program requirements, working from program needs through design, implementation, and delivery into a shipping product.\nMigrate the variants' legacy configuration onto our modern platform base, replacing product-specific one-offs with the common, composable modules the rest of the fleet uses.\nOwn the variants' software update and deployment path, and the manufacturing test configuration that validates units as they're built.\nSupport the product in the field and on the line: triage issues, reproduce and root-cause them, fix what's yours, and drive what isn't with the owning team.\nWork with the Air Defense program's engineers and stakeholders to keep requirements, schedule, and technical reality aligned.\nREQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS\n2+ years of professional software engineering building and shipping real systems.\nProficiency in Rust or C++, with the ability to work across an existing codebase you didn't write.\nSolid Linux systems fundamentals: the command line, systemd, networking basics, and log-driven debugging.\nPractical experience integrating software with hardware, whether sensors, embedded devices, or instrumentation, and comfort working on a bench with real equipment.\nDemonstrated ability to own a piece of a larger system end to end, including the unglamorous parts: configuration, deployment, testing, and support.\nClear written communication, since you'll be the interface between a program's requirements and the team's implementation.\nUS person status required, with eligibility to obtain and maintain a US security clearance.\nNICE TO HAVE\nExperience with radar, RF systems, or air surveillance and tracking.\nExperience with camera or imaging pipelines, especially infrared.\nExperience with declarative configuration management or infrastructure-as-code. Nix or NixOS is what we use; adjacent tooling is a fine starting point.\nPython for tooling, scripting, and test automation.\nRobotics experience, or work with motion control and pointing systems.\nUS Salary Range\n$167,000—$222,000 USD\nThe salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including: \nBenefits\nAt Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next. For more information, Explore Our Benefits.\nProtecting Yourself from Recruitment Scams\nAnduril is committed to maintaining the integrity of our Talent acquisition process and the security of our candidates. We've observed a rise in sophisticated phishing and fraudulent schemes where individuals impersonate Anduril representatives, luring job seekers with false interviews or job offers. These scammers often attempt to extract payment or sensitive personal information.\nTo ensure your safety and help you navigate your job search with confidence, please keep the following critical points in mind:\nNo Financial Requests: Anduril will never solicit payment or demand personal financial details (such as banking information, credit card numbers, or social security numbers) at any stage of our hiring process. 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