Staff Embedded Software Engineer, Intelligence Systems

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Anduril Industries

Compensation

$220,000 - $292,000/year

Reston, Virginia, 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

Anduril Intelligence Systems (AIS) is focused on positioning Anduril as a lead provider of specialized engineering and products for Intelligence Community (IC) customers. We work within the IC to understand their requirements, shape their concepts of operation, and deliver exquisite capability across their problem set. We aim to develop and deploy critically needed capabilities that address our customers’ most pressing national security requirements.

ABOUT THE JOB

We are looking for a Staff Embedded Software Engineer to join our rapidly growing team in Reston, Virginia. In this role you will be responsible for developing software throughout the entire hardware and software stack. This may include writing firmware and middleware components to a custom network stack, porting and refactoring code bases between languages, performance tuning, integrating encryption systems, designing software architectures, and other software development and engineering as needed. You will need to work within tight timelines and resource constraints.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Work directly with project managers to write software for fully custom embedded systems.
Work at any level of the hardware/software stack, from firmware to GUI frameworks.
Work with existing teams to maintain and update existing software systems.
Provide technical leadership and the ability to learn new software technologies quickly.
Provide software designs, estimates, and schedules as needed to program and project management.
Actively contribute to software development for critical tasks to meet program deadlines.
Adhere to software best practices to include: coding standards, perform code reviews, interact with revision control, build processes, and testing.
Triage issues and investigate root cause failures.
Report to the overall software lead for the project.
Coordinate with other software team leads, engineering leads, external teams and/or subcontractors, as needed.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

12+ years of experience in software development, with 7+ in bare metal and driver development
B.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related fields, with a focus on embedded software systems, sensors, or other small form-factor systems
Experience with Xilinx platforms
Experience working in constrained development environments, including air-gapped systems
Experience building low-level embedded software solutions including hardware integration and bare-metal code development
Ability to quickly understand and navigate complex systems and established code bases
Ability to understand and implement complex certification requirements
Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. Top Secret SCI security clearance

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

M.S. or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field
15+ years of experience building top-to-bottom, full-stack (bare metal on up)
Experience with C# application development or frontend React based UI framework
Experience implementing network and communication protocols, cryptographic systems, display protocols, or similar
Experience working with complex SoCs
Experience with ISRs, MMUs, timers
Experience developing operating systems or portions thereof
Experience with Xilinix platforms
Strong focus on security