• Above all, Mission Software Engineers are driven by a “Whatever It Takes” mindset—executing in an expedient, scalable, and pragmatic way while keeping the mission top-of-mind and making sound engineering decisions to deliver successful outcomes correctly, on-time, and with high quality
• Must be a rising senior at the time of their internship and returning to school at the end of their internship to continue their academic studies for at least one quarter/semester
• Background/Education: MIS or Computer Science
• U.S. Persons status is required as this position needs to access export controlled data
• Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in areas/fields such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics
• Experience writing software in C++, Rust, and Python
• Experience in a Linux development environment
• Ability to quickly understand and navigate complex systems and established code bases
• A desire to work on critical software that has a real-world impact
• U.S. Person status is required as this position needs to access export controlled data

Desirable

• As the software engineers closest to Anduril customers and end-users, Mission Software Engineers solve technical challenges of operational scenarios while owning the end-to-end delivery of winning capabilities
• As a Mission Software Engineer Intern, you will solve a wide variety of problems involving networking, autonomy, systems integration, robotics, and more, while making pragmatic engineering tradeoffs along the way
• You will work with experienced engineers at the leading edge of the Maritime Software team — working in a tight feedback loop with vehicle platform software engineers and ensuring that Anduril products seamlessly work together to achieve a variety of critical outcomes
• Take ownership of tasks that will directly impact external and internal customers
• Write code to improve products for specific mission sets — coordinating with the vehicle software platform team to 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