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Software Engineer, Agentic Modeling & Simulation

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Software Engineer, Agentic Modeling & Simulation in USA new

  • Anduril Industries
  • Full time
  • Email
  • Costa Mesa, CA

Responsibilities

  • Build agentic workflows that expose modeling and simulation capabilities through natural language, structured tools, APIs, and operator-facing products.
  • Design multi-agent architectures modeling decision-making, adversary responses, operational constraints, and plan tradeoffs.
  • Integrate LLM tool use, function calling, retrieval, planning loops, evaluation hooks, and guardrails with simulation and mission-planning systems.
  • Build backend services for scenario creation, entity tasking, simulation-state retrieval, course-of-action generation, plan comparison, and real-time analysis.
  • Translate ambiguous operational planning workflows into reliable software with warfighters and technical subject-matter experts.
  • Improve observability, reproducibility, explainability, and evaluation for agent behavior.
  • Learn and apply DoD modeling and simulation concepts, including campaign-level simulation, mission-level simulation, and wargaming workflows.

Requirements

  • Strong production software engineering experience building backend services, APIs, platforms, or integrations around complex stateful systems.
  • Hands-on experience building AI/ML or LLM-powered software, ideally involving tool or function calling, RAG, structured outputs, agent orchestration, MCP-style interfaces, or model evaluation.
  • Proficiency in Python, Go, or a similar backend language and ability to integrate systems across service boundaries.
  • Bachelor-level degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related technical field.
  • Ability to work with operators, warfighters, and technical subject-matter experts to convert ambiguous needs into engineering requirements.
  • Strong judgment regarding reliability, safety, observability, and debugging for AI systems in high-stakes environments.
  • Eligibility to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance.
  • Preferred qualifications include modeling and simulation, physics engines, wargaming, autonomy simulation, operations research, planning systems, agentic production systems, gRPC/protobuf, Kubernetes, distributed systems, observability, secure or air-gapped environments, and defense, aerospace, autonomy, robotics, gaming/simulation, command-and-control, or operational planning experience.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive competitive benefits are available at little to no cost to full-time employees.
  • The posting includes full-time employment and a U.S. salary range of $191,000–$292,000, with equity included in the majority of full-time offers.

Salary: $191k - $292k/yr

Anduril Industries

Anduril Industries builds advanced autonomous systems designed to enhance military awareness and security across land, sea, and air. Targeting defense agencies and allied military forces, it leverages its proprietary Lattice platform to drive innovation in military capabilities. What sets Anduril...

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