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Applied LLM Systems Engineer

Anduril · Costa Mesa, California, United States · Santa Ana, CA (OC-32)

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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build production AI systems that improve how technical documentation is created.
  • Design orchestration for multi-step workflows coordinating models and tools safely.
  • Work on docs pipeline powering Lattice OS across hardware, software and autonomy.

Ideal candidate

Systems-minded engineer with production AI experience who cares about reliable automation. You balance capability with cost and risk, and enjoy partnering with writers and engineers to keep human judgment where it matters.

Requirements

  • 5+ years professional software engineering experience building and operating production services
  • Delivered at least one production AI system with measurable adoption by users
  • Experience optimizing cost, latency and context usage in production LLM systems
  • Experience designing evaluation, observability, rollback and failure-handling for nondeterministic systems
  • Strong proficiency in Python and modern API, data and service-development practices
  • Sound judgment on where probabilistic AI is appropriate vs deterministic software or human review
  • Eligible for Secret and higher US security clearance

Lab profile

About Anduril

Defense technology company building autonomous systems for military missions.

What they build

  • Lattice OS
  • Ghost
  • Anvil

Known for

  • Autonomous defense systems
  • AI-powered command and control
  • Rapid hardware-software iteration

Key facts

  • Founded in 2017
  • Headquartered in Costa Mesa, California
  • Backed by Founders Fund and Andreessen Horowitz
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