Anduril is a defense technology company, bringing Silicon Valley talent and funding to the defense sector. Our technology helps our customers solve their toughest challenges by enabling them to make better, more informed decisions in life-and-death situations. We’ve assembled a diverse team of experts in artificial intelligence, computer vision, sensor fusion, optics, and data analysis that are creating software and hardware solutions to radically evolve the capabilities of the United States and our allies.

If you are passionate about solving problems that have real impact, come join Anduril and build the future of defense.

About the role:

Anduril’s Lattice software platform integrates together many sensors into a single cohesive view of the world, providing needed context for our users. The Substrate group makes it possible to deploy, scale, configure, monitor, and debug software on all of Anduril's assets, physical and virtual, Anduril-owned or customer-provided. By building tooling and infrastructure the group aims to makes it easier, cheaper, and faster to develop and release applications and scale and maintain deployments.

We believe in having as little separation between engineers and our users as well as between engineering teams. As a Software Engineering Manager, you will be working alongside a team of engineers with a diverse set of backgrounds and skills. Anduril has a collaborative culture with plenty of opportunities for ownership. As an early member of the team, your decisions today will have a large impact on the company now and into the future, as well as our customers! We believe that simple systems are easier to understand, maintain, and scale. You will be making trade-offs as you work to ensure that our systems are prepared to scale - so being able to effectively communicate these trade-offs with your teammates is a must.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Be responsible for career growth, engagement and quality output of engineers on your team
• Grok, communicate and leverage business priorities as it relates to your team’s area of responsibilities in order to curate a clear product vision, prioritize the highest impact projects and reduce execution risk
• Get hands on with the code to drive successful implementation
• Be accountable for the full lifecycle development of software products from problem discovery to solution delivery
• Balance short term tensions from the business against long term product vision and roadmap
• Maintain contextual awareness of technical architecture within your engineering group in order to advise and guide design decisions across the group
• Participate in group level leadership discussions and decision making
• Define what great looks like with regards to all manners of performance expectations
• Partner with recruiting to hire our next generation of software engineers

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• We recognize that excellence never comes in a one size fits all list of requirements. To us, an engineering manager is someone who cares deeply about building high performing teams by focusing on setting clear expectations, pulling individuals up to realize their maximum potential and developing a clear and sustainable long term vision for the team they lead, rooted in the needs of the business. Caring about these things may take the form of one on one mentorship, project planning, architecture white boarding, getting hands on with users of our systems, and diving in to the code to lead by example when needed. 
• U.S. Person status may be required as this position needs to access export controlled data.

WHAT A SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE LOOKS LIKE

• Seeks out the bigger picture and has a penchant for the right amount of planning
• Excited to dive in and get hands on with code to take solutions to completion
• Draws energy from coaching and growing others
• Willing to take risks and own the accountability for managing those risks
• Passionate about solving real world problems, quickly
• Deep systems background with high value on engineering excellence
• Experience building distributed systems at scale
• Instinct towards leading by example rather than authority
• Has managed and scaled high performing teams
• Experienced in partnering with engineering leaders, customers and cross-functional team members

Anduril is an equal-opportunity employer, and we encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply. If you are someone passionate to work on problems that matter, we’d love to hear from you!