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Software Engineer, Front End

Anduril


Job Location:

Reston, VA - USA

Monthly Salary: $ 166000 - 220000
Posted: 3 July 2026 (30+ days ago)
Application Deadline: 14 November 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Mission Software Engineering team builds deploys integrates extends and scales Andurils software to deliver mission-critical capabilities to our customers. As the software engineers closest to Anduril customers and end-users Mission Software Engineers solve technical challenges of operational scenarios while owning the end-to-end delivery of winning capabilities such as Counter Intrusion Joint All Domain Command & Control and Counter-Unmanned Aircraft Systems.

ABOUT THE JOB


As a Software Engineer on the Mission Software Engineering team you will solve a wide variety of problems involving networking autonomy systems integration robotics and more while making pragmatic engineering tradeoffs along the way. Your efforts will ensure that Anduril products seamlessly work together to achieve a variety of critical outcomes. Above all Mission Software Engineers are driven by a Whatever It Takes mindsetexecuting in an expedient scalable and pragmatic way while keeping the mission top-of-mind and making sound engineering decisions to deliver successful outcomes correctly on-time and with high quality.

WHAT YOULL DO
  • Own the software solutions that are deployed to customers

  • Write code to improve products and scale the mission capability to more customers

  • Collaborate across multiple teams to plan build and test complex functionality

  • Build and analyze metrics and dashboards to debug and monitor production systems

  • Triage issues root cause failures and drive resolution across teams

  • Write and maintain tests and contribute to CI/CD pipelines to ship safely and quickly

  • Partner with end-users to turn needs into features while balancing user experience with engineering constraints

  • Limited travel required

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
  • Strong engineering background from industry or school ideally in areas/fields such as Computer Science Software Engineering Mathematics or Physics.

  • At least 2-5 years of professional experience with TypeScript; experience with Go and Python is preferred. (We encourage all levels to apply)

  • Experience building and shipping user-facing web interfaces (e.g. React Vue or similar modern frontend frameworks)

  • Experience building software solutions involving significant amounts of distributed systems and high-throughput data pipelines

  • Ability to quickly understand and navigate complex systems and established code bases

  • Strong debugging skills with the ability to isolate and resolve issues across distributed multi-service systems

  • Strong testing discipline (unit integration) and experience working with CI/CD pipelines

  • Strong Git skills (branching rebasing resolving conflicts) we move fast and ship continuously

  • A desire to work on critical software that has a real-world impact

  • Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. TS clearance

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
  • At least 2-5 years of experience working in Linux environments

  • Experience with Kubernetes (k8s)

  • Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS GCP or similar

  • Experience with Protocol Buffers and gRPC

WHAT MAKES A GREAT MISSION SOFTWARE ENGINEER
  • Customer Facing - Mission Software Engineers are the software engineers closest to Anduril customers end-users and the technical challenges of operational scenarios.

  • Mission First - Above all MSEs execute their mission in an expedient scalable and pragmatic way. They keep the mission top-of-mind and make pragmatic and thoughtful engineering decisions to deliver successful outcomes.

  • Small Project Wrangling Large Project Impact - Our MSEs are the voice of our business line(s). They are the forcing function that gets us to think about how a project will transition to production and tie in to the centralized functions across the business.

  • Embrace Challenge (and follow through) - We take responsibility for achieving the mission; Developing technical self-sufficiency across a wide range of environments. Ruthlessly prioritizing while honing our ability to understand large systems and incorporate new components in varying levels of complexity.

US Salary Range

$166000 - $220000 USD

The 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 Andurils total compensation package. Additionally Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees including:

Benefits

At Anduril we invest in our people. Our comprehensive competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures youre supported in health recovery and whatever comes next.For more information Explore Our Benefits.

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