Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.
Maritime Digital Production (MDP) is the software and digital systems function within Anduril's Heavy Metal division. We build and deploy the full technology stack that powers Anduril's shipbuilding factories.
As a Software Engineer, Backend on the Systems Integrity Group (SIG), you will build backend services and APIs that power simulation, digital twin validation, and V&V automation systems.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement backend services that orchestrate simulation frameworks, digital twin validation workflows, and V&V automation pipelines.
- Develop APIs that expose validation results, geometric comparison data, and simulation outputs to downstream consumers.
- Partner with manufacturing engineers and factory operators to understand production workflows and translate them into backend service requirements.
- Write production-quality code with comprehensive tests, participating in code review and architectural discussions.
- Build backend integration layers that retrieve 3D CAD geometry, as-built scan data, quality measurements, and engineering specifications from PLM, MES, and quality management systems.
- Design and maintain databases optimized for storing simulation results, validation findings, geometric comparison data, and historical V&V records.
- Implement event-driven architectures that trigger validation workflows when manufacturing milestones occur or design changes are released.
- Deploy and operate your systems in factory environments, including edge compute clusters and OT networks.
- Optimize backend performance to support computationally intensive workloads including geometric validation, simulation orchestration, and 3D data processing.
- Build data pipelines that feed real-time production data from the Unified Namespace to digital twin simulations and 3D visualization systems.
- Leverage AI tooling in your development workflow and contribute to team engineering practices.
- Join an on-call rotation supporting production factory systems.
Required Qualifications
- 6+ years of experience in a software engineering role building production systems.
- Strong expertise in backend software development with foundations in distributed systems and API design.
- Strong technical fluency in modern software architectures, APIs, distributed systems, CI/CD, and cloud or edge infrastructure.
- Proficiency in backend programming languages.
- Experience with database management systems.
- Strong understanding of RESTful API design.
- Experience with cloud platforms and deploying backend services in production environments.
- Familiarity with containerization and orchestration.
- Understanding of software development best practices.
- Experience building systems that must operate reliably under real-world operational constraints.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related technical field.
- U.S. Person status.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in manufacturing, industrial, or OT-adjacent domains.
- Previous experience building backend systems that integrate with PLM, quality management systems, or CAD/CAM platforms.
- Experience with simulation frameworks, digital twin systems, or backend services supporting V&V automation.
- Background in systems that process and query 3D geometric data.
- Experience with event-driven architectures.
- Familiarity with frontier AI tooling.
- Experience in hyper-growth startup-like environments.
- Familiarity with microservices architecture patterns.
- Experience with monitoring and logging tools.
- Experience in manufacturing industries.
- Knowledge of computational geometry.
- Understanding of verification and validation processes.
- Experience building backend services that support 3D visualization applications.
- Eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret security clearance.
