Senior Manager, Software Engineering (Geospatial Platform)
Anduril Industries · Seattle, Washington, United States
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**Senior Manager, Software Engineering (Geospatial Platform)** ## About Anduril Anduril Industries is a defense technology company on a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by **Lattice OS**, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a real-time, 3D command and control center. ## About the Team (Terra) Terra is Anduril’s **geospatial platform team**. We provide the maps, imagery, elevation, bathymetry, charts, and environmental data used across Anduril’s products—supporting command-and-control software, autonomous aircraft and undersea vehicles, and the simulation/synthetic environments used to train and test autonomy. ## About the Job We’re looking for a software engineering leader to run Terra. You’ll lead a team of about a dozen engineers and grow it, set the technical and product direction for geospatial data at Anduril, and own the production systems that robots and operators depend on in the field. This is a leadership role first: you should be able to go deep on architecture with Staff engineers, but your main job is building a team that delivers. ## What You’ll Do - Lead, hire, and develop a team of software and GIS engineers; shape team structure as it grows. - Own delivery and reliability of Terra’s production systems, including **offline map pipelines** for fielded autonomous systems and operational support. - Set the roadmap for Anduril’s common map environment: imagery/terrain basemaps, nautical & aeronautical charts, vision-based navigation data, and synthetic environment reconstruction for simulation. - Partner with business lines to understand mission needs, set clear expectations, and turn requests into products other teams can use without your help. - Own Terra’s map content strategy, working with partnerships, legal, and finance to source data and ensure systems enforce licensed-data usage. - Tell the story of what Terra builds through product docs, demos, and roadmaps that drive adoption across the company. ## Required Qualifications - **8+ years** building software, including **3+ years** managing engineering teams (**8+ engineers**) - Background in **geospatial/GIS/mapping/remote sensing** (e.g., GDAL, PostGIS, tiling/WMTS, raster/vector formats, terrain/elevation data) - Experience with **Go, Python**, and cloud infrastructure (**K8s, AWS, Azure**) - Track record owning production data or serving systems with real uptime and support requirements - Experience with large-scale data processing/storage (terabytes+) and tradeoffs in cost, performance, reliability - Strong technical judgment; able to review designs and push architecture with senior engineers - Clear communicator with partners, customers, and executives - Willingness to directly support the safety and security of people in combat zones - Eligible to obtain and maintain an active **U.S. Secret security clearance** ## Preferred Qualifications - Shipped mapping or imagery products to external users - Experience with offline/edge/intermittently connected deployments - Experience working with data vendors, content licensing, or usage tracking - Exposure to simulation, game engines, digital twins, or perception/ML training data ## Compensation (US) **$220,000 — $292,000 USD** (base salary estimate; equity and benefits may be included depending on offer.) ## Benefits Anduril offers a comprehensive, competitive benefits package (availabl
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