Anduril Targets 1,000 Seattle Engineers in 2 Years as Defense AI Hiring Accelerates
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Updated · GeekWire · Aug 22
Anduril Targets 1,000 Seattle Engineers in 2 Years as Defense AI Hiring Accelerates
3 articles · Updated · GeekWire · Aug 22
Summary
Anduril plans to expand its Seattle-area engineering workforce to 1,000 from 560, with senior vice president Tom Keane saying the milestone could come within about two years.
110-plus open Washington jobs and a newly leased third floor in downtown Seattle underpin the push, as the defense company recruits AI, distributed-systems and optics talent from Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Meta.
The hiring drive supports Anduril’s AI-heavy military hardware lineup, including EagleEye augmented-reality glasses weighing 115 grams and a digital night-vision system with an 84-degree field of view slated for a U.S. Army prototype next year.
Anduril has built out Bellevue and Seattle offices plus a testing range near Carnation, where engineers iterate hardware with active-duty troops; the company says recent protests over autonomous weapons have not hurt recruiting.
The Seattle expansion comes after Anduril closed a $5 billion funding round at a $61 billion valuation earlier this year, even as it recently vacated a local shipyard after the Navy canceled an autonomous warship program.