Mission Software Engineer, Vehicle Software, ConsensusActive$220K
The opportunity
The Air Dominance & Strike team at Anduril develops aerial and multi-domain robotic systems. The team is responsible for taking products like Fury (unmanned fighter jet) and Barracuda (air-breathing cruise missile) from concept to product.
What you'll do
Design and implement consensus protocols (Raft, CRDT, or others) that keep a: fleet of autonomous vehicles converging on shared truth over lossy, contested links
Build the next generation of distributed teaming state: replicated mission data, leader election, and conflict resolution across dozens of nodes with no guaranteed central authority
Support bothstrong consensus and eventual consistency depending on real-world: latency and partition constraints
Own the failure semantics when partitioned vehicles rejoin the team
Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance
BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or related field.
What they're looking for
- Strong background with focus in Physics, Mathematics, and/or Motion Planning: to inform modeling & simulation (M&S) and physical systems
- Developing and testing multi-agent autonomous systems and deploying in real-world environments.
- Feature and algorithm development with an understanding of behavior trees.
- Developing software/hardware for flight systems and safety critical functionality.
- Distributed communication networks and message standards
- Knowledge of military systems and operational tactics
