Senior Robotics Software Engineer, Behaviors

As a Senior Robotics Software Engineer on the Maneuver Dominance team, you will design and implement behavior trees and state machines that control high-level behavior for teams of robots. You will write software integrations between autonomy stacks and robotic peripherals such as sensors, flight controllers, and radios, and build software that coordinates multiple autonomous platforms to achieve complex mission outcomes. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams and contribute across the entire software lifecycle, including prototyping, implementation, testing, and deployment, with up to 25% travel for real-world testing and deployment.

Responsibilities

• Develop Behavior Software: Design and implement behavior trees and state machines that control high-level behavior for teams of robots.
• Autonomy Integration: Write software integrations that enable seamless interactions between autonomy and robotic peripherals—sensors, flight controllers, radios, and other onboard systems.
• Multi-Robot Coordination: Build software that coordinates teams of autonomous platforms to achieve complex mission outcomes across networked robots.
• Systems Integration: Solve problems spanning networking, autonomy, systems integration, and robotics, making pragmatic engineering tradeoffs along the way.
• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner with autonomy, hardware, systems, and platform teams to ensure Anduril products seamlessly work together in the field.
• Real-World Deployment: Travel up to 25% to test, debug, and deploy systems in operational environments.
• Iterative Development: Contribute across the entire software lifecycle, including prototyping, implementation, testing, and deployment.
• Troubleshoot and Debug: Analyze and resolve issues in deployed systems, ensuring reliability and operational success.

Requirements

• Technical Expertise: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Robotics, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics.
• C++ and Rust Proficiency: At least 6+ years of hands-on experience developing production-grade software in C++ and/or Rust.
• Behavior Trees & State Machines: Experience designing and implementing behavior trees, state machines, or comparable frameworks for orchestrating high-level robotic behavior.
• Autonomy & Peripherals: Proven ability to write software integrations between autonomy stacks and robotic peripherals such as sensors, flight controllers, and radios.
• Systems-Level Thinking: Strong systems-level knowledge and the ability to navigate and contribute to complex, established codebases.
• Pragmatic Engineering: A “Whatever It Takes” mindset—executing in an expedient, scalable, and pragmatic way while keeping the mission top-of-mind.
• Real-World Impact: Passion for building software that directly influences mission-critical outcomes.
• Travel Flexibility: Willingness to travel up to 25% to test and deploy systems.
• Security Clearance: Must be eligible for a US security clearance.

Nice to have

• Multi-Agent Coordination: Experience with motion planning, perception, localization, and multi-agent coordination across teams of robots.
• Behavior Frameworks: Familiarity with open-source behavior tree libraries (e.g., BehaviorTree.CPP, py_trees) or comparable autonomy frameworks.
• Simulation Expertise: Proficiency in designing Software-in-the-Loop (SIL) simulation environments for behavior validation.
• Hardware Integration: Experience working with embedded systems, flight controllers, and physical devices.
• Programming Skills: Additional experience with Python, and/or real-time operating systems.
• Machine Learning: Knowledge of AI/ML applications in robotics and autonomy.

Benefits

• 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 Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:
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