Staff Software Engineer, Distributed Simulation

At Anduril Industries, we are at the forefront of defense technology, dedicated to revolutionizing military capabilities for the U.S. and its allies through state-of-the-art innovations. By leveraging the expertise and groundbreaking technologies from the most progressive companies of the 21st century, we are redefining the design, production, and deployment…

Anduril Industries is a forward-thinking defense technology firm dedicated to revolutionizing military capabilities through cutting-edge technology. By integrating the innovation, expertise, and agile business models of some of the 21st century's most dynamic companies into the defense sector, Anduril is redefining the design, construction, and deployment of military systems. Our systems leverage Lattice OS, an AI-driven operating system that synthesizes extensive data streams into a real-time, 3D command and control interface. In a time marked by strategic competition, Anduril is devoted to providing state-of-the-art autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking solutions to military operations faster than ever before.About the RoleWe are on the lookout for a Staff Software Engineer to spearhead our Distributed Simulation initiatives. In this pivotal role, you will take charge of developing a groundbreaking distributed simulation product that facilitates collaboration among diverse robotic units across multiple physical locations. The ideal candidate will have a robust understanding of the entire product lifecycle, from the initial scoping of user requirements through to the architectural design and implementation of viable solutions.Your ResponsibilitiesYou will leverage your expertise to advocate for design decisions that consider:varied interpretations of “truth” between server and clientlatency challenges between clients and the serveroptimal locations for GPU-intensive computationsthe process of registering new robots within the networkdelivering software updates while ensuring system availabilitytransferring data across isolated networksmonitoring simulation states for comprehensive post-exercise debugging and reporting

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Anduril Industries develops advanced defense technology for the U.S. and allied military forces, combining expertise from top technology firms with the needs of the defense sector. The company’s products run on Lattice OS, an AI-based operating system that transforms large data streams into a 3D command and control interface. The mission centers on delivering autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking capabilities to military teams efficiently. TRS Simulation Team The TRS Simulation team creates the frameworks, tools, and processes that make simulation reliable for the Tactical Recon & Strike business line. Their work covers simulation infrastructure, fidelity, integrations, and training simulations. These efforts support products such as Altius, Ghost, Bolt, and Anvil throughout their lifecycle, from early development to field deployment. Every improvement in simulation fidelity and each validated model directly influences the effectiveness of autonomous systems in real-world missions. The team aims for a unified simulation framework that works seamlessly across all products and deployment targets. This includes developer laptops, CI pipelines, operator training, and large-scale HPC Monte Carlo runs. A single declarative workspace definition can be composed and deployed wherever simulation is required, allowing teams to focus on mission challenges rather than infrastructure. Role overview The Software Engineer - Simulation Integrations role suits an adaptable engineer who thrives on cross-disciplinary work and new challenges. The Sim Integrations sub-team connects the simulation platform with the programs that rely on it. This involves collaborating with program managers, autonomy engineers, systems engineers, operators, and clients across the full range of TRS products and programs. One week may involve setting up a new simulation environment for a field exercise, while the next could focus on refining an existing setup for greater operational efficiency. The pace is quick and priorities may shift, but the team’s simulation environments enable others to create, validate, and deploy autonomous systems. What you will do Understand simulation requirements from different programs Identify gaps in current simulation capabilities Develop actionable plans to address those gaps Execute plans and ensure satisfaction for customers and stakeholders Location Seattle, Washington, United States

Why join usAt Brex, we are pioneering a new era in financial management with our AI-driven spend platform. Our mission is to empower businesses with confidence through integrated corporate cards, banking solutions, and global payments, alongside innovative software for streamlined travel and expense management. We proudly serve tens of thousands of clients, from agile startups to major enterprises, including DoorDash, Flexport, and Compass. Our platform enables proactive spend control, cost reduction, and enhanced efficiency across the globe.Joining Brex means pushing your boundaries, challenging conventional wisdom, and collaborating with some of the most innovative minds in the industry. We are dedicated to fostering a diverse team and an inclusive culture, believing that your potential should only be limited by your ambitions. We provide the tools, resources, and support you need to advance your career.AI at BrexOur AI Engineering team at Brex is transforming how businesses manage their finances by embedding intelligent, autonomous systems directly into our platform. We develop AI agents that not only provide insights but also take actionable steps, optimizing spending, managing workflows, and making real-time decisions for our clients. By seamlessly integrating proprietary financial data with our product and platform infrastructure, we simplify complex financial operations into efficient, automated experiences, establishing a new standard in modern finance.Your RoleAs a Senior Software Engineer, you will take charge of Brex's simulation and validation platform for our AI-driven products. Your primary objective is clear: ensure that every AI interface at Brex undergoes rigorous testing under demanding, realistic conditions, enabling our teams to deploy solutions with confidence.You will develop a system that leverages synthetic data and scenario generation in a recursive self-improvement loop. Product teams will depend on this system to identify regressions before they reach our customers, validate new features safely, and continuously enhance prompts and agent behavior. The platform will operate in isolated, ephemeral environments closely resembling production to ensure reliability.This role is not about research; it's about rigorously testing real products, creatively breaking them, and driving the organization towards improvement.Work EnvironmentThis position is based in our Seattle office, where we embrace a hybrid work culture that combines the vibrancy and connection of in-office collaboration with the flexibility of remote work. Team members are required to be in the office three days a week (Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday), with the option for up to four weeks of fully remote work each year!

Anduril Industries develops defense technology for the U.S. and allied militaries, bringing modern technical expertise and new business models to the defense sector. The company’s Lattice OS, an AI-driven operating system, transforms multiple data streams into a real-time 3D command and control interface. Core areas include autonomy, artificial intelligence, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking, all delivered on accelerated timelines. Team: TRS Simulation The TRS Simulation team supports the Tactical Recon & Strike business line by building and maintaining tools, frameworks, and processes for reliable and scalable simulations. The group focuses on four main areas: Simulation Infrastructure Simulation Fidelity Simulation Integrations Training Simulations These efforts enable products like Altius, Ghost, Bolt, and Anvil to move from early development through deployment. Each advance in simulation fidelity and every validated model directly impacts the readiness of autonomous systems for field use. The team aims for a unified simulation framework that adapts to developer laptops, CI pipelines, operator training, and large-scale Monte Carlo campaigns, allowing teams to focus on mission goals rather than infrastructure. What you will do This Software Engineer - Simulation Fidelity role focuses on identifying and addressing where simulated components differ from real-world system behavior. Work involves close collaboration with subsystem experts to design, refine, and validate models within the simulation framework. Daily tasks include analyzing gaps, understanding domain-specific challenges, and engineering solutions to improve simulation fidelity. Data is used to validate changes, and problems often involve multi-physics and multi-rate scenarios, both in real-time and accelerated simulations. Validation cycles may extend over months, as improvements are tested against real flight data and integrated into operational systems alongside ongoing product development.

Anduril Industries builds advanced defense technology for the U.S. and its allies, with a focus on autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking. The company’s flagship platform, Lattice OS, uses AI to deliver a real-time 3D command and control environment, supporting military operations with rapid, integrated solutions. Team focus The Simulation Integrations team bridges Anduril’s high-fidelity simulation engine with the live production services that power Lattice. This group ensures simulated entities, sensors, and autonomous systems interact effectively with real-world assets, supporting seamless operation across both simulated and live domains. Role overview The Senior Software Engineer - Simulation Integrations will design and build a core service that connects robot simulations to live production systems. This work enables advanced capabilities such as wargaming and live-virtual constructive (LVC) exercises, and supports the deployment of synthetic environments for broader system integration. What you will do Develop foundational services linking simulation products with live production environments. Support next-generation features, including complex LVC exercises and wargaming scenarios. Work across the stack: manage network infrastructure, deploy with Kubernetes, build backend services, and design database schemas and APIs. Take ownership of the product lifecycle, from design through deployment and integration.

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At Compass, we are committed to transforming the way people find their homes. Established in 2012, we have created a groundbreaking end-to-end platform that empowers real estate agents to provide exceptional service to both buyers and sellers.As a Staff Software Engineer within the Transaction Journey organization, you will leverage your expertise in microservices architecture to develop impactful products for our customers. You will lead the design and development of services that enhance the consumer experience in the real estate sector while supporting the scalability of the world's foremost brokerage. You will guide a team in creating a collaborative transaction management platform that simplifies the home buying and selling process, enabling agents to efficiently manage transactions from initial contact to closing, including accessing local forms, sending documents for electronic signatures, and handling offers.You are a passionate engineer dedicated to crafting intuitive APIs. You believe that your insights are crucial in making product and business decisions. You have a zest for learning and a desire to share your knowledge with your peers. You are an excellent communicator who strives to understand before seeking to be understood.Your design systems prioritize fault tolerance, scalability, high availability, thorough testing, and adherence to best practices, including the single responsibility principle.Your code is modular and reusable, and you take pride in delivering reliable, well-tested, peer-reviewed solutions that conform to industry standards. You have strong opinions regarding code structure, style, and development processes.At Compass, You Will:Provide strategic direction and ownership of Compass' software architecture.Develop and scale the platform that empowers real estate professionals, buyers, and sellers.Become a domain expert in real estate technology, acting as a supportive partner to our customers.Inspire, recruit, and mentor fellow engineers.Lead the architecture of our distributed microservices framework.Work in a scalable engineering culture that utilizes modern principles of decoupled systems, automated CI/CD, testing, and monitoring to enhance efficiency.Implement standard agile development methodologies.Join an exceptional team with significant visibility and exciting projects on the horizon.

Become a Catalyst for Positive Change at Axon.At Axon, we are dedicated to the mission of Protecting Life. We are innovators tackling society's most pressing safety and justice challenges through our cutting-edge ecosystem of devices and cloud software. Like our products, we believe in the power of collaboration. We value open communication and actively seek diverse perspectives from our customers, our communities, and within our teams.Working at Axon is dynamic, fulfilling, and meaningful. Here, you will take charge and effect substantial change. Experience continuous personal and professional growth while contributing to a mission that truly matters, at a company that values you.Your ContributionAs a Staff Software Engineer, you excel at blending technical leadership with rapid product exploration and a focus on customer needs. Within the Enterprise team, you'll assist Axon in identifying and validating new product-market opportunities by developing impactful proof-of-concepts that integrate real customer workflows, then establishing the technical groundwork to transform the most promising concepts into secure, scalable, and production-ready products within the Axon ecosystem. You possess keen system design insight and an outcomes-oriented approach: you understand when to swiftly prototype, how to design experiments that mitigate risks on significant projects, and how to convert insights into robust architectures that teams can rely on.You are a force multiplier—elevating the technical standards through design evaluations, mentoring, and fostering alignment across teams. You collaborate closely with Product Management and customer development partners to ensure we create the right solutions in the right manner. You nurture a welcoming, transparent, and reflective culture that empowers everyone to share their opinions and steer clear of unnecessary bureaucracy and politicking. You exemplify our company value of Join Forces and have a strong commitment to collaboration.What You'll AccomplishWork Location: This position is based out of one of our U.S. offices and follows a hybrid work model. We emphasize the importance of in-person collaboration and require team members to work on-site from Tuesday to Friday, with the option to work remotely on Mondays, unless a workplace accommodation is approved. We believe that connection drives innovation, and our office culture is crafted to promote meaningful teamwork, mentorship, and collective success.Reports to: Director of Software EngineeringLead technical discovery for new enterprise product concepts: translate ambiguous customer challenges into deliverable prototypes and measurable experimentsDevelop proofs-of-concept that seamlessly integrate with existing workflows

P-940 This position is open to our offices in both Seattle and Bellevue. At Databricks, we are dedicated to empowering data teams to tackle the world's most pressing challenges, from detecting security threats to innovating in cancer drug development. By constructing and managing the globe's premier data and AI infrastructure platform, we enable our clients to concentrate on the critical challenges central to their missions. Founded in 2013 by the original architects of Apache Spark™, Databricks has expanded from a modest office in Berkeley, California to a global powerhouse with over 1,000 employees. We are proud to be one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies, trusted by thousands of organizations ranging from startups to Fortune 100 companies with their most vital workloads. Our engineering teams develop highly technical products that address significant global needs. We continually push the limits of data and AI technology, while ensuring the resilience, security, and scalability essential for our customers' success on our platform. We operate one of the largest-scale software platforms, comprised of millions of virtual machines that generate terabytes of logs and process exabytes of data daily. Given our scale, we routinely encounter cloud hardware, network, and operating system faults, and our software is engineered to seamlessly shield customers from these issues. As a backend-focused software engineer, you will collaborate closely with your team and product management to prioritize, design, implement, test, and operate micro-services for the Databricks platform and products. This role involves writing software in Scala/Java, building data pipelines (Apache Spark™, Apache Kafka), integrating with third-party applications, and engaging with cloud APIs (AWS, Azure, CloudFormation, Terraform). Join one of our dynamic teams, such as: Data Science and Machine Learning Infrastructure: Develop services and infrastructure at the nexus of machine learning and distributed systems. Our technology powers the flagship collaborative workspace, notebooks, IDE integrations, and project management tools. We facilitate machine learning at scale with tools for environment management, distributed training, and managing the machine learning lifecycle through MLflow. Compute Fabric: Create the resource management infrastructure that supports all big data and machine learning workloads on the Databricks platform in a robust, flexible, and secure manner.

At Docker, we simplify application development, allowing developers to concentrate on what truly matters. Our remote-first team is globally dispersed, united by a shared enthusiasm for innovation and exceptional developer experiences. With a robust user base of over 20 million monthly and 20 billion image pulls, Docker stands as the leading tool for building, sharing, and managing applications—trusted by both startups and Fortune 100 companies. Our growth trajectory is impressive, and we’re just getting started. Join us for an exciting journey!As a Staff Software Engineer on the Offload team, you will be instrumental in designing and developing the foundational systems that drive Docker’s cloud platform. Your primary focus will be on crafting scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure that empowers developers to confidently deploy and manage containerized workloads.If you excel at solving challenges in distributed systems, enjoy collaborating at the crossroads of developer experience and cloud infrastructure, and aspire to influence the future of Docker’s platform, we would love to hear from you.

Join our innovative team at Sofi as a Staff Software Engineer in the Protect division. We are looking for a talented engineer who is passionate about developing cutting-edge solutions to enhance our security and risk management capabilities. You will work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to design, implement, and maintain software systems that safeguard our users’ financial data.In this role, you will leverage your expertise in software development, problem-solving, and data analysis to create scalable and efficient applications. Your contributions will directly impact the safety and security of our platform, making a difference in the lives of our customers.

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Role Overview Anduril Industries is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the QualityOS team in Seattle, Washington. This role centers on building software that improves the quality and reliability of advanced defense technologies. What You Will Do Design and implement software systems that support mission-critical applications Work closely with engineers to develop and refine solutions that raise the bar for quality and reliability Focus on quality assurance, testing, and performance optimization throughout the development process What We're Looking For Strong background in software engineering principles Experience with quality assurance and testing methodologies Ability to optimize software for performance and reliability Collaborative approach to problem solving within a technical team