Game Developer, Sensor Simulation

Full-time - Mid Level

Boston, MA

About the position

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. The Sensor Simulation team at Anduril is building a platform for generating synthetic imagery for a variety of teams across the company. Use cases span a variety of areas, such as SITL (software in the loop) and HITL (hardware in the loop) integration tests of our systems, machine learning (ML) data generation and user training simulations. You will build a synthetic imagery pipeline so realistic we can't tell the difference between synthetic images and real flight test data. We're looking for software engineers with strong coding skills and deep, relevant experience who can learn quickly and help build out the platform. Ideally candidates will have some background using Unreal Engine or other game engines and related tools and languages.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain core capabilities in Unreal Engine such as a terrain rendering pipeline, vehicle physics models, and many more
• Work with other platform teams at Anduril to ensure our service integrates seamlessly with other core services
• Integrate various plugins and third party capabilities into our platform, figuring out how to best make use of them and working around or fixing any bugs
• Collaborate closely with other teams across the company to enable them to integrate synthetic imagery and bring back lessons learned to help improve our product

Requirements

• Must have 2+ years of professional C++ programming experience
• Must be willing to travel 10% for collaboration across offices
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. Strong communication skills are a must
• Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in areas/fields such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, Game Design, Robotics
• Proven understanding of data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and code optimization
• Proficiency with Unreal Engine
• Experience troubleshooting and analyzing remotely deployed software systems
• Experience with various tools for performance analysis and debugging problems (gdb, bpftrace, perf, etc)
• Eligible to obtain and hold a DoD security clearance

Nice-to-haves

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

Benefits

• Platinum Healthcare Benefits: For U.S. roles, we offer comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans at little to no cost to you.
• For UK roles, Private Medical Insurance (PMI): Anduril will cover the full cost of the insurance premium for an employee and dependents.
• For AUS roles, Private health plan through Bupa: Coverage is fully subsidized by Anduril.
• Basic Life/AD&D and long-term disability insurance 100% covered by Anduril, plus the option to purchase additional life insurance for you and your dependents.
• Extremely generous company holiday calendar including a holiday hiatus in December, and highly competitive PTO plans.
• 16 weeks of paid Caregiver & Wellness Leave to care for a family member, bond with your baby, or tend to your own medical condition.
• Family Planning & Parenting Support: Fertility (eg, IVF, preservation), adoption, and gestational carrier coverage with additional benefits and resources to provide support from planning to parenting.
• Mental Health Resources: We provide free mental health resources 24/7 including therapy, life coaching, and more. Additional work-life services, such as free legal and financial support, available to you as well.
• A professional development stipend is available to all Andurilians.
• Daily Meals and Provisions: For many of our offices this means breakfast, lunch and fully stocked micro-kitchens.
• Company-funded commuter benefits available based on your region.
• Relocation assistance (depending on role eligibility).
• 401(k) retirement savings plan - both a traditional and Roth 401(k). (US roles only)