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Staff Firmware Engineer

Anduril · Costa Mesa, California, United States · Costa Mesa, CA (OC-00)

Defenseonsitestaff$220k–$292k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Develop low-level firmware for systems operating on land, sea, and air.
  • Build core technology powering products like Ghost, Roadrunner and Dive-XL.
  • Take full ownership of embedded firmware projects from design to completion.

What they offer

  • Highly competitive equity grants
  • Comprehensive top-tier benefits package

Ideal candidate

Veteran embedded engineer with 10+ years building complex systems who loves owning hardware-adjacent problems end-to-end, mentoring others, and moving fast to field real capability for customers.

Requirements

  • BS or MS in CS/CE/EE or equivalent industry experience
  • 10+ years of experience in firmware/embedded software development, with a focus on embedded systems
  • Expert level C coding ability for embedded systems
  • Demonstrated success creating complex MCU projects that communicate between multiple boards or systems
  • Broad experience with one or more microcontroller cores (ARM, AVR, MSP430, PIC, etc.)
  • Experience integrating microcontrollers with analog and digital sensors
  • Experience developing firmware in bare-metal and/or RTOS environments
  • Debugging skills with JTAG, SWD, Oscilloscopes, and Logic analyzers
  • Solid understanding and application of coding best practices, board bring up and debugging
  • Extensive experience with common bus protocols such as USB, SPI, I2C, CAN, RS232, RS485, Ethernet, etc.
  • Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities

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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