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Principal Software Engineer – Strategic Infrastructure – Advanced Networking & Comms
| Company | Anduril |
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| Location | Washington, DC, USA |
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| Salary | $196000 – $294000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- Minimum of 7 years of operations and engineering experience in the government and/or private sector
- Experience building scalable infrastructure and backend software systems with various data storage and processing requirements.
- Experience with industry standard cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), CI/CD tools, and software infrastructure fundamentals (networking, security, distributed systems)
- Ability to understand, debug, and modify software written languages such as Go, Rust, C++, or Python
- STEM degree or equivalent technical experience
- Deep technical aptitude in order to understand novel and emerging threats, technologies, and product capabilities with demonstrated performance in one or more of the following areas: networking, cloud technologies, application development, hardware design, and/or cybersecurity
- Must be willing to travel up to 30%
- Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance
Responsibilities
- Rapidly develop technology solutions to advance strategic infrastructure initiatives that enable all Anduril business lines to accelerate delivery of Anduril’s best-in-class warfighting capabilities
- Lead cross functional teams executing on zero-to-one developmental projects across Anduril’s emerging capability areas, with a particular focus on efforts to build highly scalable platforms or infrastructure
- Improve Anduril’s operational capabilities by improving our core product offering through root cause analysis and creating tooling capable of managing large scale deployments
- Collaborate with customers and internal teams to develop and execute integration strategies that support business growth while targeting specific customer needs using existing and novel capabilities
- Build global partnerships and an understanding of ongoing technology development efforts across Anduril and the industry to accelerate delivery of business critical technologies
- Develop solutions to our customers’ most complex problems and help support next-generation acquisition efforts to address jointly identified capability gaps
- Leverage customer partnerships and industry knowledge to ensure Anduril is leading the industry in building and delivering complete and relevant solutions to the warfighter
Preferred Qualifications
- Deep technical expertise in multiple domains (systems design, networking, storage, cybersecurity, etc) to quickly identify opportunities for points of customer integration and collaboration
- Proven ability to drive consensus across multiple stakeholders outside the organization
- Experience building and leading teams to operate in stressful and ambiguous situations
- Experience in the technical, programmatic, and operational challenges of developing and deploying autonomous weapon systems across command echelons
- High bandwidth to focus on opportunities that span the spectrum of Anduril hardware and software products, and the spectrum of defense program offices
- Experience working with other cultures and mapping human terrain in order to positively represent our company and navigate unfamiliar decision-making chains
- Must be able to work in a fast-paced, highly entrepreneurial, and creative environment
- A leader who can build, adapt, and implement new and innovative approaches to market
- Excellent writing and communication skills and experience briefing senior executives and defense leadership
