Software Engineer, Perception

About the role

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

The Tactical Recon & Strike team at Anduril develops aerial small drones (Group 1-3) and all equipment to test, deploy and operate. The team is responsible for taking products like Ghost, Anvil, Bolt and Altius from concepts to operational systems. We work in close coordination with specialist teams to solve some of the hardest problems facing our customers. We are looking for software engineers, hardware engineers, roboticists, and front-end mobile developers who are excited about creating a powerful robotics platform that can be tasked and viewed in real-time through a variety of interfaces.

ABOUT THE JOB

We are seeking Software Engineers specializing in Computer Vision and Machine Learning Engineering. You will leverage cutting-edge research to solve our most challenging perception problems for our UAVs, bringing deep expertise in Object Detection, Object Tracking, or related perception domains. This role requires hands-on proficiency in C++ and/or Python within a Linux environment. If you are passionate about tackling complex technical challenges in computer vision and perception, we encourage you to apply.

This position will be located at our headquarters in Costa Mesa, CA (relocation benefits provided).

WHAT YOU’LL DO

- Propose and prototype innovative solutions to solve real world problems, leveraging the latest state-of-the-art techniques in the field.

- Develop and maintain core libraries and runtime applications.

- Integrate classical and geometric methods in computer vision with ML methods.

- Work with ML and Data Infra team to construct various benchmarks for analyzing system performance.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

- MS or PhD in Machine Learning, Robotics or Computer Science, with emphasis on Computer Vision.

- BS in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Electrical Engineering, or related field.

- 2+ years experience developing and benchmarking ML algorithms on large-scale datasets.

- High proficiency in C++ development in a Linux environment.

- Experience deploying models with TensorRT and ONNX.

- Experience with Python development and deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch and TensorFlow.