Staff Full-Stack Tech Lead Manager, Air Dominance

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Anduril Industries

Compensation

$220,000 - $292,000/year

Washington, District of Columbia, United States

On-site

Posted April 3, 2026

Job Description

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Air Dominance & Strike team at Anduril develops aerial and multi-domain robotic systems. The team is responsible for taking products like Fury (unmanned fighter jet) and Barracuda (air-breathing cruise missile) from concept to product. The team also develops Lattice for Mission Autonomy, Anduril’s premier software platform that enables masses of Fury, Barracuda, and other first and third party robots to collaborate across various missions. We work in close coordination with specialist teams like Perception, Motion Planning, Hardware, and Test Engineering to solve some of the hardest problems facing our customers. We are looking for software engineers and roboticists excited about creating the tools for other developers to build an autonomy software stack that includes computer vision, motion planning, SLAM, controls, estimation, and secure communications.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Lead a team of software engineers to deliver mission planning software
Partner with end-users to turn needs into features while balancing user experience with engineering constraints
Own the mission autonomy systems and services 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.
Create and analyze metrics that are leveraged for debugging and monitoring.
Triage issues, root cause failures, and coordinate next-steps.
Partner with end-users to turn needs into features while balancing user experience with engineering constraints.
Travel up to 25% of the time to build, test, and deploy capabilities in the real world.

CORE REQUIREMENTS

Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance
8+ years of experience using frontend languages such as JavaScript, TypeScript, and React.
8+ years working with a variety of programming languages such as Java, Python, C++, Rust, Go
Experience as a tech lead or tech lead manager for teams of at least 5 other engineers
Degree in Computer Science, Operations Research, Electrical Engineering, related technical degree, or equivalent experience
Experience working on frontend applications, preferably data-intensive or map-based systems
Experience building software solutions involving significant amounts of data processing and analysis
Broad experience in delivering functional outcomes to customers (internal or external)

US Salary Range

$220,000—$292,000 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 Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:reactpythonjavatypescriptjavascriptgorustaifrontendios