Staff Software Engineer Distributed Simulation

Remote, USA โ€ข Full-time โ€ข Posted 2026-05-04
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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 Role
We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead our Distributed Simulation efforts. In this role, you will be responsible for building a new distributed simulation product to enable heterogeneous groups of robots to collaborate together across multiple physical sites. Ideal candidates will be comfortable at all stages of the product life cycle, from initial scoping of user requirements, to the architecture of a solution, to the implementation of that solution.

What You'll Do
You will be expected to use your prior expertise to make well-reasoned arguments for a design that accounts for:
รขย€ยข differing visions of รขย€ยœtruthรขย€ย on the server and client
รขย€ยข latency between clients and the server
รขย€ยข where to do GPU-intensive computation
รขย€ยข registering new robots with the network
รขย€ยข shipping software updates without compromising availability
รขย€ยข moving data across segregated networks
รขย€ยข monitoring of simulation state for post-exercise debugging and reporting

Required Qualifications
รขย€ยข Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance
รขย€ยข Recent (<2 years in the past) experience writing and maintaining software codebases with significant complexity
รขย€ยข Prior experience in distributed simulation, especially from writing network-based multiplayer games or from a similar defense context
รขย€ยข Experience as a tech lead and mentor for teams of at least 5 other engineers

Preferred Qualifications
รขย€ยข Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in areas/fields such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics
รขย€ยข 8+ years of software engineering experience including significant work in at least two of the following: C++, Golang, Java, Rust, Python
รขย€ยข Experience setting up CI/CD, metrics + logging infrastructure for a live service, and alerting
รขย€ยข Experience with cloud infrastructure: Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS
รขย€ยข Experience with Nix

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