Software Engineer - Perception in London

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 Maritime & Manoeuvre Dominance teams at Anduril UK develop operationally relevant, multi-asset autonomy. We are focused on making large groups of autonomous systems work effectively together. We leverage existing Anduril platforms like Ghost, Altius, and Dive XL, in addition to bringing 3rd party platforms into Anduril's Lattice ecosystem. We develop Perception and Autonomy algorithms to solve some of the hardest problems facing our customers. We are looking for software engineers and roboticists excited about creating a powerful robotics stack that includes computer vision, motion planning, SLAM, controls, estimation, and secure communications.

ABOUT THE JOB

We are looking for a Senior Perception Software Engineer to join our rapidly growing team in London, UK. In this role, you will be responsible for solving a wide variety of problems involving computer vision, motion planning, SLAM, controls, estimation, networking, autonomy, systems integration, robotics, and more, whilst making pragmatic engineering trade-offs along the way. You will ensure that Anduril products seamlessly work together to achieve a variety of critical outcomes. This will require strong systems-level knowledge and experience. If you are someone who possesses a "Whatever It Takes" mindset—executing in an expedient, scalable, and pragmatic way while keeping the mission top-of-mind and making sound engineering decisions—then this role is for you.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Develop and evaluate machine learning and computer vision techniques for object detection and tracking.
• Deploy these approaches to operational settings, by moving features along a release process that starts in simulation and ends running in an embedded and operational context.
• Evaluate and characterise cameras and gimbals to inform autonomy system constraints and performance expectations.
• Design experiments, data collection efforts, and curate training/evaluation sets to develop insights both for internal Anduril purposes as well as customers, deciding the features and implementing them.
• Drive the flight testing and test configuration for evaluating the implemented features against real data on target hardware for validating technical approaches.
• Work closely with vendors and government stakeholders as we seek to advance the art of possible for large drone teams.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• BS in Robotics, Computer Science, Mechatronics, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field.
• Proven understanding of data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and code optimisation.
• Strong computer vision and machine learning background and fluency in standard domain libraries (numpy, opencv, pytorch, etc).
• Experience deploying software to end customers, internal or external — turning research and development efforts into used software.
• Must have strong C++ or Rust experience in a Linux development environment.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active UK Security Clearance.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience in one or more of the following: perception, computer vision, image segmentation, sensor integration and characterisation, motion planning, localisation, mapping, and related system performance metrics.
• Experience in on-vehicle perception, computer vision on a dynamic platform.
• Experience developing software on embedded hardware, including NVIDIA Jetson boards (Xavier, tx2, etc).

Anduril is an equal-opportunity employer committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. The Anduril team is made up of incredibly talented and unique individuals, who together are disrupting industry norms by creating new paths towards the future of defense technology. All qualified applicants will be treated with respect and receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, uniform service, Veteran status, age, or any other protected characteristic per federal, state, or local law, including those with a criminal history, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the CA Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. We actively encourage members of recognized minorities, women, Veterans, and those with disabilities to apply, and we work to create a welcoming and supportive environment for all applicants throughout the interview process.

If you are someone passionate about working on problems that have a real-world impact, we'd love to hear from you!