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anduril

Sr. Firmware Engineer

anduril, Costa Mesa, California, United States, 92626

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Sr. Firmware Engineer

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 Tactical Recon & Strike team at Anduril develops aerial small drones (Group 1-3) and all equipment to test, deploy and operate. The team is responsible for taking products like Ghost, Anvil, Bolt and Altius from paper sketches to operational systems. We work in close coordination with specialist teams to solve some of the hardest problems facing our customers. We are looking for software engineers, hardware engineers, roboticists, and front-end mobile developers who are excited about creating a powerful robotics platform that can be tasked and viewed in real-time through a variety of interfaces. We are looking for a Senior Firmware Engineer with experience developing low-level software/firmware for embedded systems products to join our team. In this role, you will develop and deliver features to the firmware layer which underpins the operations of all Tactical Recon & Strike products. What You'll Do: Develop robust, high-confidence software/firmware for microcontrollers, create reusable device drivers, and architect system-level features to support desired product functionality. Exercise deep product ownership, driving program-level efforts to maximize customer impact. Provide mentorship to junior engineers and level-up the overall capability of the TRS Firmware team. Work cross-functionally with Electrical, Software, and Product Design teams to ensure program success, from prototype design through to customer deployment. Proactively identify opportunities for improvement at both the team and program level, and deliver solutions to realize those improvements. Enable rapid development iteration by coordinating new-hardware bringup and quickly troubleshooting hardware issues that span the electrical, firmware, and software boundaries. Coordinate firmware support for Test Engineering to ensure the high-yield production and manufacture of hardware products. Support product field testing to quantify customer value and identify firmware feature opportunities with high program impact. Required Qualifications: 7+ years of experience developing software/firmware for embedded systems. MS in CS/CE/EE or equivalent industry experience. Demonstrated track record of technical leadership and product ownership. Extensive experience integrating microcontrollers with analog and digital sensors and developing firmware application logic in bare-metal or RTOS environments. Outstanding C coding ability and deep familiarity with the language standard. Solid understanding and application of software development best practices, software/hardware debugging approaches, and board bringup methodology. Practical experience with common IC bus protocols such as I2C, SPI, USB, CAN, RS232, RS485, Ethernet, etc. Exemplary written and verbal communication skills. Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance Preferred Qualifications: Experience with the implementation details of one or more microcontroller cores (ARM, AVR, MSP430, PIC, etc.) Direct experience implementing firmware applications interfacing with CAN peripherals. Firmware/hardware debugging skills with JTAG, SWD, Oscilloscopes, and logic analyzers. Experience with test-driven development for embedded systems, hardware-in-the-loop testing, and devops for firmware applications.