Senior Mission Software Engineer
Location
Sydney, Australia
Level
Senior
Department
Engineering
Type
Full - Time
Salary
Job Description
Posted on:
February 1, 2023
At Anduril Australia we are delivering unmanned systems across all physical military domains that will leverage unsupervised autonomy for the delivery of long endurance, multi-mission capability to our customers. These projects require Senior Mission Software Engineers with broad experience to drive the delivery a variety of software enabled capabilities to our customers. Anduril Senior Mission Software Engineers rapidly develop expertise in new domains in order to articulate the value of, scope, architect, design, deliver, support, and evolve next generation capabilities through the entire product life-cycle.
Responsibilities
- Own customer success on one or more customer accounts, in co-ordination with Anduril Mission Operations Engineer’s and Business Development Managers.
- Empathize with end-users and drive solutions that balance their needs with external constraints, restrictions and requirements in a multi-stakeholder environment
- Own software enabled solutions that are deployed to customers, optimizing for the delivery of value to the end-user
- Design and implement scalable software enabled systems, leveraging the output of multiple external teams, that rapidly delivers capability beyond the scope of current platforms
- Contribute to the design and development of existing software services across Anduril, with the aim of developing components that are re-usable across multiple Anduril product lines
- Develop software that runs on- and off- robotic platforms, using a variety of technologies
- Create test and simulation fixtures that operate with both software- and hardware-in-the-loop
- Support system delivery, configuration, training and sustainment
- Travel to co-locate with end-users up to 40% of the time
- Work as a member of a multi-disciplinary delivery team, including as a mentor for Software Engineers from differing backgrounds
Job Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Engineering, a relevant field, or equivalent experience
- Extensive professional experience working as a Software Engineer with one or more domains and/or technologies of expertise
- Experience in a customer facing role
- Excellent interpersonal, communication and co-ordination skills
- Systems and/or application programming skills including algorithms, data structures, concurrency, scaling, testing, infrastructure, software design and system design
- Experience troubleshooting and analyzing remotely deployed software systems
- Capacity to work holistically on software enabled capabilities up and down the software stack and through lifecycle through design, implementation, operation and sustainment
- Capacity to act as the technical owner for the delivery of a mixed hardware/software system, including stakeholder engagement, scoping, requirements definition, roadmap management, team co-ordination, design, implementation, and sustainment
- Capacity to learn and grow individually, while mentoring junior team members effectively, building team cohesion and capacity
- Ability to obtain and maintain an Australian Government Security Clearance
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience writing backend services or embedded software in C++ and/or Go
- Experience writing frontend applications using Typescript and React
- Experience with the design, implementation and operation of horizontally scaled cloud technologies
- Experience with the design, implementation and support of embedded software, particularly in the field of robotics
- Desire to learn and grow in to other roles that require experience as a Senior Mission Software Engineer, such as Principal Mission Software Engineer and/or Engineering Manager
