Senior Numerical Optimization Engineer, LOKI

5+ years of experience in a software engineering role building production systems, ideally in a fast-paced environment.

Strong technical fluency in modern software architectures, APIs, distributed systems, CI/CD, and cloud or edge infrastructure.

Expert proficiency in Python for scientific computing and robust software development, with strong foundations in numerical computing libraries (NumPy, SciPy, Pandas).

Hands-on experience with optimization libraries and commercial/open-source solvers (e.g., Gurobi, CPLEX, OR-Tools, SCIP, PuLP, CVXPY, Pyomo).

Experience building systems that must operate reliably under real-world operational constraints (high availability, low latency, or constrained environments).

Demonstrated ability to formulate real-world problems as mathematical optimization models and implement production-grade solutions.

As a Senior Numerical Optimization Engineer on the LOKI initiative, you will develop the scheduling and optimization algorithms that generate manufacturing precedence graphs from 3D geometry and BOMs.

You will build systems that replan production schedules in under 10 minutes when disruptions occur, using constraint solvers, numerical optimization techniques, computational geometry, and graph algorithms to transform how ships are built.

Design, develop, and implement advanced optimization algorithms that automatically generate manufacturing precedence graphs from 3D CAD geometry, bills of materials, and manufacturing process definitions.

Partner with manufacturing engineers and factory operators to understand production workflows and translate them into mathematical optimization models.

Write production-quality code with comprehensive tests, participating in code review and architectural discussions.

Apply computational geometry techniques to extract manufacturing dependencies, spatial constraints, and assembly sequences directly from CAD models and 3D geometry.

Maritime Digital Production (MDP) is the software and digital systems function within Anduril's Heavy Metal division. We build and deploy the full technology stack that powers Anduril's shipbuilding factories: the data infrastructure that makes every machine and sensor visible in real time, the manufacturing execution system (ArsenalOS) that workers and planners use every shift, the scheduling engine that replans production in minutes instead of days, and the AI systems that eliminate manual toil from both the shop floor and business operations.

MDP operates at the boundary between Operational Technology and Information Technology. Our systems live where factory-floor machines, edge compute, and OT networks meet enterprise platforms and cloud infrastructure. We incubate solutions close to the production line, validate them with real operators building real hardware, harden them for reliability and security, and then scale them across multiple sites. The environment is fast, physical, and consequential. When our systems go down, production stops. The output of our work is not a dashboard: it is a ship.

This is not a support function. It is a strategic investment by Anduril in the premise that digitizing the manufacturing lifecycle end-to-end, from engineering definition through scheduling through execution through field feedback, is how Heavy Metal will out-build, out-adapt, and out-scale the traditional defense industrial base. MDP is scaling from a founding team to 70+ engineers across multiple U.S. sites. You will be joining early, working on hard problems with real operational stakes, and shaping how manufacturing software is built at Anduril from the ground up.