CareerPlan

Staff Software Engineer, AI

Costa Mesa, CA (OC-13)Full-time$220k–$292k2026-11-03 → 2026-11-10
Security clearance required

Core

Building Anduril's internal AI infrastructure and tooling for autonomous coding agents and agentic automation systems.

Role type

Staff Software Engineer (AI Infrastructure & Agentic Automation)

Builds

AI infrastructure, agent frameworks, model-serving components, and data pipelines for autonomous workflows.

Domain

Defense technology / AI / Software Engineering

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

AI mindset, creative problem-solving, raw intellectual horsepower, experience optimizing AI coding assistants, stakeholder communication, cross-functional collaboration

Preferred skills

enabling agents and MCP, process automation, event-driven architecture, scaling software in hyper-growth startups, cloud services familiarity

Technologies

AI coding assistants, agent frameworks, model-serving components, data pipelines

Responsibilities

Propose, prototype, build, and deploy agentic systems; work cross-functionally to scope solutions; build and maintain data pipelines and model-serving components; learn and evangelize AI technologies

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with strategic scope