Senior Manager, Software Engineering, Intelligence Systems

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 next generation national security 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.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Anduril’s AIS team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead, and scale a high-velocity team responsible for the software and user-interface ecosystem powering next-generation hardware platforms and System-on-Chip (SoC) devices. In this role, you will balance people leadership, technical direction, and operational execution, ensuring your team delivers robust, mission-critical web applications that are rigorously tested and validated.

• Team Leadership & People Management: Mentor and retain a high-performing team of front-end and full-stack software engineers.
• Technical Strategy & Architecture: Guide the architectural direction for mission-critical web UIs, ensuring high reliability, test coverage, low latency, and seamless state synchronization with underlying hardware and backend services.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Product Managers, Embedded Systems Engineers, Backend Leads, and Hardware teams to align UI roadmaps with customer delivery milestones.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years of experience managing software engineering teams
• 5+ years of software development experience with deep expertise in modern web ecosystems, including TypeScript, modern CSS/SCSS, and React (with state management tools such as Redux Toolkit).
• Experience using RESTful APIs and addressing common challenges, such as state management and concurrency
• Experience with front-end testing methodologies and tools, such as React Testing Library, Cypress, and Jest
• Experience with serialization and deserialization frameworks like Protobufs
• Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance, at a minimum.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Prior experience leading teams at the intersection of hardware/embedded devices and software interfaces (e.g., SoC integration, robotics, IoT, or edge computing).
• Technical breadth covering backend/systems programming languages (C, C++, Rust, or Go) and modern microservice architectures.
• Experience with IPC models in embedded contexts
• Experience implementing authentication and authorization in classified or air-gapped environments.

Benefits

At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next.