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
We’re looking for a software engineering leader to run Terra. You’ll lead a team of about a dozen engineers and grow it, set the technical and product direction for geospatial data at Anduril, and own the production systems that robots and operators depend on in the field. You’ll work closely with business lines across air, maritime, and space, with our simulation teams, and with outside data and technology partners. This is a leadership role first. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 8+ years building software, including 3+ years managing engineering teams (8+ engineers)
- Background in geospatial, GIS, mapping, or remote sensing (GDAL, PostGIS, tiling/WMTS, raster and vector formats, terrain and elevation data
- Experience with Go, Python and cloud infrastructure (K8s, AWS, Azure)
- Track record of owning production data or serving systems with real uptime and support requirements
- Experience with large-scale data processing and storage (terabytes and up) and the tradeoffs in cost, performance, and reliability
- Strong technical judgment: able to review designs and push on architecture with senior engineers
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.
Terra is Anduril’s geospatial platform team. We provide the maps, imagery, elevation, bathymetry, charts, and environmental data used across Anduril’s products. That includes command-and-control software, autonomous aircraft and undersea vehicles, and the simulation and synthetic environments we use to train and test autonomy. Terra builds the pipelines that process this data, the services that serve it in the cloud and on fully disconnected networks, and the tools that...
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