Lead Mission Software Engineer, EW

7+ years of professional experience in software engineering, with meaningful time spent on production systems that can't go down

Strong proficiency in at least two of: Haskell, Rust, C++, Go, TypeScript

Experience with Linux systems administration and debugging in production environments

Demonstrated ability to work across the software stack — embedded systems, networking, applications, infrastructure

Experience supporting or operating remotely deployed software/hardware systems

Strong communication skills and comfort engaging directly with customers on technical matters

We are looking for a Lead Mission Software Engineer to build and lead this function from the ground up.

This is a foundational leadership role: you will shape the team's technical direction, hire and develop engineers, and personally contribute to the hardest problems.

The team is growing rapidly — the right person is equally comfortable architecting deployment pipelines, debugging a system in the field, and mentoring an IC2 through their first production incident.

You will own operational readiness and field success for EW software products, working across the full stack — from embedded systems and RF interfaces through networking, applications, and Lattice integration.

You'll collaborate closely with embedded software engineers, DSP/RFML engineers, systems architects, and growth teams to ensure our products perform reliably in operational environments and evolve rapidly based on operator feedback.

This role demands a "whatever it takes" mindset: executing 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.

Anduril's Electronic Warfare (EW) division builds next-generation electronic warfare platforms — hardware-enabled, software-defined systems that are fielded, operational, and scaling fast. In the last year alone, the EW team delivered 30 novel system configurations into active combat operations in under a week, earned a unanimous fielding recommendation from government evaluators, and secured one of the fastest contract awards in recent defense history. This is a team that ships to the fight on timelines the defense industry isn't used to seeing. We are standing up a new Mission Software Engineering (MSE) organization within EW to own the full lifecycle of our software from development through deployment, sustainment, and customer success. This team will sit at the intersection of embedded software engineering, systems integration, and field operations — ensuring our systems don't just work in the lab, but win in contested environments.