Software Engineer - Visual Simulation, Advanced Capabilities

Join to apply for the Software Engineer - Visual Simulation, Advanced Capabilities role at Anduril Industries. Anduril Industries is a defense technology company on a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technologies. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the most innovative companies of the 21st century 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 real‑time, 3‑D command and control center.

About The Team: Anduril is seeking a Software Engineer (Visual Simulation) to join the Maneuver Dominance Advanced Capabilities team in our London office. The team focuses on delivering three core components—Capability Strategy, Mission Advantage, and Maneuver Advantage—leveraging analysis, wargaming, and warfighter‑centric thinking to guide how Maneuver Dominance incubates, builds, and deploys the capabilities needed to dominate future conflicts.

About The Role: You will lead the development of novel Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality user experiences that enable operations analysis and wargaming in support of our product development and customers. The ideal candidate is practical, hands‑on, self‑starter with high growth potential, and has extensive UE5 production experience with demonstrable environment work (production or shipped installations). A strong artistic eye for composition and detail, combined with solid engineering habits (testing, documentation, version control for tools), and a strong background in systems development inside Unreal—editor tooling, Blueprints, editor scripting (Python)—are essential.

What You'll Do:

• Develop simulation visuals for sensors, comms, movement, tactical behaviours, weapon effects, electronic effects, command and control, and others.
• Develop and maintain core capabilities in Unreal Engine such as a terrain rendering pipeline, vehicle physics models, and more.
• Integrate various plugins and third‑party capabilities into our platform, ensuring seamless service integration and fixing bugs as needed.
• Collaborate with other teams across the company to enable synthetic imagery integration and bring back lessons learned.
• Partner with Operations Analysis and other Software Engineering team members to deliver simulation capabilities that create high‑fidelity immersive environments.
• Partner with capability teams (e.g., Mission Autonomy) to accelerate product development through simulation.
• Work with multidisciplinary subject‑matter experts to model pertinent subsystem, system, and system‑of‑system dynamics.

Required Qualifications:

• Proficient with C++.
• Working experience with Python.
• 3+ years of industry engineering experience in fields such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, Game Design, Robotics.
• Experience with Unity and Unreal Engine.
• Proven understanding of data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and code optimisation.
• Experience with high‑performance and multi‑threaded programming.
• Comfortable working in a fast‑paced, collaborative environment.
• Strong communication skills.
• Demonstrated curiosity and ability to learn outside core discipline.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active UKSV Security Clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:

• MS in Computer Science or Software Engineering.
• Rust programming experience.
• Experience in a Linux development environment, GPU and graphics programming (HLSL, Vulkan, CUDA).
• Familiarity with training machine learning models, especially for computer vision use cases.
• Experience with 3D modelling tools.

Healthcare Benefits: The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in most full‑time offers. Anduril also offers top‑tier benefits for full‑time employees, including:

• US Roles: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans at little to no cost to you.
• UK & AUS Roles: We cover full cost of medical insurance premiums for you and your dependents.
• IE Roles: We offer an annual contribution toward your private health insurance for you and your dependents.

Additional Benefits:

• Income Protection: Anduril covers life and disability insurance for all employees.
• Generous time off: Highly competitive PTO plans with a holiday hiatus in December.
• Caregiver & Wellness Leave are available to care for family members, bond with a new baby, or address your own medical needs.
• Family Planning & Parenting Support: Coverage for fertility treatments (e.g., IVF), adoption, and gestational carriers, along with resources to support you and your partner from planning to parenting.
• Mental Health Resources: Access to free mental health resources 24/7, including therapy and life coaching. Additional work‑life services such as legal and financial support are also available.
• Professional Development: Annual reimbursement for professional development.
• Commuter Benefits: Company‑funded commuter benefits based on your region.
• Relocation Assistance: Available depending on role eligibility.

Retirement Savings Plan:

• US Roles: Traditional 401(k), Roth, and after‑tax (mega backdoor Roth) options.
• UK & IE Roles: Pension plan with employer match.
• AUS Roles: Superannuation plan.

The recruiter assigned to this role can share more information about the specific compensation and benefit details during the hiring process.