Anduril Industries builds advanced autonomous systems and defense technology to protect US and allied forces. Creating the future of national security through AI, robotics, and cutting-edge engineering. Backed by General Catalyst, Lightspeed and a16z.
About the role
Discovery is building an expeditionary force: a team of engineers who want to solve difficult problems and who navigate unfamiliar territory as an operating standard. As an AI & Agentic Platform Engineer, you pick up a concept nobody has proven and build the analysis or prototype that tests it to get to an answer. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Technical Expertise: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field
- Programming Proficiency: At least 8-10 years of hands-on experience writing production-grade code, with strong Python skills for building evaluation pipelines, test harnesses, and tooling
- Evaluation Ownership Mindset: Demonstrated experience owning evaluation or automated testing for production ML or software systems—test scenarios, metrics, regression suites, and CI infrastructure
- AI/ML Evaluation Experience: Hands-on experience designing evaluation methodologies for AI or machine learning models—defining metrics, building benchmarks, and assessing model behavior against real-world scenarios
- Simulation Experience: Experience designing or working extensively with simulation environments to exercise model and system behavior
- Metrics Discipline: Working knowledge of how to define, capture, and reason about performance metrics for AI models and traditional models, including systematic historic capture over time
More about this 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.
Discovery is Anduril's team for taking the newest problems across domains- space, missile systems, air, sensor capability, autonomy, and cyber- and proving out what is worth solving. We build the models, run the tests, and carry what works to the point where a program can pick it up. Discovery works alongside Air Defense, Space, Intelligence, Cyber, GNC, Hardware, and every other group at Anduril to incubate the solutions to the hardest problems.
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