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At a glance
Anduril is hiring a Platform Software Security Engineer, Air Defense in Irvine, CA. It is a full-time role in Software & IT, asking for at least 4 years of experience. The advertised pay is $167,000–$222,000 a year. The description mentions Computer vision, Linux, Embedded C, C++ and Rust. Anduril has 149 other openings in the US, 6 of them in Irvine, CA. Across all employers on USA Jobs 24 there are 39 Software & IT openings in Irvine, CA today; the typical one asks for 5 years and advertises about $175,000 a year at the midpoint.
How the pay compares
Anduril advertises $167,000 to $222,000 a year, a midpoint of $194,500 a year. Where an offer lands in a range usually depends on experience and on the exact location. That is lower than about 63% of the 1,245 software & IT jobs in California that publish a yearly rate on USA Jobs 24, where the typical midpoint is $214,000 a year. To see roughly what this leaves after federal and California tax, try our take-home pay calculator.
Skills in this advert
How often each skill named in this advert appears across the 4,388 software & IT jobs we list today. C++ is the most widely requested (13% of jobs), while Computer vision is the least common (2%). Widely requested skills are what employers expect as a baseline; rarer ones show what is special about this job.
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Before you apply
- Location. Based in Irvine, CA.
- Experience. The advert asks for at least 4 years.
- Resume. The advert's own words include Computer vision, Linux and Embedded C. Use them wherever they are true for you.
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About hiring at Anduril
Anduril has 150 openings on USA Jobs 24 today across 12 states. Most are in software & IT (69), operations (20) and product & design (13). The biggest locations are Costa Mesa, CA (82), Waltham, MA (17) and Ashville, OH (13). 3% of them are remote, 5% are open to entry-level candidates and 97% show pay. We collect Anduril's jobs every day straight from its own careers system (Greenhouse), never from job boards or agencies.
From Anduril's advert
Air Defense products are deployed to austere and often secure environments, some in contexts where the device itself is a sensitive asset and physical access by an adversary is a realistic…
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