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The titles and summaries in these postings point to two broad clusters of work. One is mission-critical embedded and autonomy software: roles at Anduril Industries such as the Mission Software Engineer – Undersea Reconnaissance & Strike and the Sr. Mission Software Engineer involve debugging autonomous underwater vehicles using logs and recorded data, then shipping fixes through CI/CD pipelines. The Staff Software Engineer, Autonomy Behaviors at Shield AI works on multi-agent coordination and behaviour planning for unmanned platforms. The second cluster is platform and infrastructure work: the Software Engineer, AI Platform role focuses on CI/CD pipeline design, infrastructure-as-code, and secure deployment environments. The CoreAI intern at Microsoft works on AI and ML projects applying frameworks such as TensorFlow or PyTorch. The Software Engineer II, Autonomy Behaviors at Shield AI requires production C++ and motion-planning experience. Across the set, practical debugging, systems thinking, and experience shipping through automated pipelines recur as themes.
The skills table reflects mentions in posting descriptions across all postings on this page, not a list of hard requirements. Python and C++ appear most frequently, followed by TypeScript, AWS, and computer vision. PhD is mentioned in roughly a quarter of postings, likely linked to the defence and quantum-computing employers in the set. Because the sample is weighted toward a small number of large employers, these counts reflect those companies' stacks more than any city-wide pattern.
The employers' own advertised ranges, for individual roles at different levels — not an average and not a market rate.
Most postings in this set are onsite, with a meaningful minority listed as hybrid. Only one posting is listed as fully remote. No postings have an unknown work mode in this set, so the picture is relatively clear, though individual hybrid arrangements — such as how many days in office are expected — are not detailed in the postings themselves. Candidates interested in flexibility should treat the hybrid label as a starting point and confirm the specific arrangement with each employer during the process.
Jobs checked 5 hours ago. · Guide reviewed 9 September 2026.
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