Anduril Internships 2027: Programs, Pay and How to Apply

Anduril runs paid, in-person engineering internships that typically last around 12 weeks, and ApplyBolt's live board currently shows a 2027 Software Engineer Intern posting in Seattle alongside other early-career engineering roles at the company. If you want in for 2027, the postings for that cycle usually open the fall before, so expect more to appear through the rest of 2026 as Anduril builds out its next class.

There's one requirement that trips people up before pay or major ever comes into it: citizenship. Anduril builds defense hardware, and most of its engineering roles, internships included, require U.S. Person status because the work touches export-controlled data. That single line rules out a meaningful share of otherwise-qualified applicants before the rest of the process even starts.

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What Anduril actually does

Anduril builds autonomous defense systems: drones, counter-drone technology, portable surveillance towers and the Lattice software platform that fuses sensor data into a single operating picture for military customers. It was founded in 2017 by Palmer Luckey and a handful of co-founders, and it's headquartered in Costa Mesa, California. Anduril has stayed privately held while growing fast, reaching a reported valuation in the tens of billions and roughly 7,000 employees, and it holds contracts across the US military and agencies like Customs and Border Protection.

For interns, that means the work is not a simulation of defense technology. Live postings show interns doing prototype design, failure analysis and hardware testing on systems that ship to real customers, with some roles including travel to test sites.

Anduril's product lines give a sense of the range interns can end up touching: Lattice, the AI software that fuses sensor feeds into one operating picture; Sentry Tower, a solar-powered surveillance tower; Ghost, a quiet single-rotor helicopter drone; and Altius, a family of tube-launched fixed-wing drones. A software intern might work on the Lattice platform itself, while a mechanical or electrical intern is more likely to touch the physical hardware in Ghost, Altius or one of Anduril's newer autonomous underwater and interceptor programs.

The citizenship and clearance question, straight

Read the requirements section of any Anduril posting before you invest hours in an application. Engineering roles commonly state that U.S. Person status is required because the position needs access to export-controlled data under ITAR-style rules, a category that includes citizens, permanent residents and certain other protected classes, but not most international students on an F-1 visa. A subset of roles go further and require the ability to obtain and hold a US security clearance, which adds its own background-check timeline. If you're an international student, this is one of the clearest signals in the whole defense-tech sector that a company isn't the right fit for your visa situation, and it's worth knowing before applying rather than after.

What background you need

Anduril's internship postings generally target rising seniors working toward a bachelor's degree in a relevant technical field: computer science, mechanical or electrical engineering, physics or mathematics, depending on the team. Postings also commonly ask for collegiate project team or lab experience, like a robotics club, formula racing team or research lab, over pure classroom coursework. Interns are expected to return to school for at least one more academic term after the internship wraps, which rules out the internship as a bridge straight into a diploma-in-hand full-time start.

Pay and how to apply

Anduril's own postings list a pay range directly on each listing rather than one company-wide figure, and the range shifts by role, level and location, so check the specific posting instead of assuming a number from somewhere else. Apply through Anduril's careers site or the live roles below. Because Anduril is a fast-growing, closely watched company in the defense-tech space, expect a genuinely competitive process: technical interviews and a resume screen that rewards hands-on hardware or systems experience over GPA alone.

For another defense contractor with its own clearance rules, see our General Dynamics internships guide, or compare Anduril's pipeline against the much larger, publicly traded RTX (Raytheon) internship program. If hardware and systems engineering interest you more broadly, browse 2027 hardware engineering internships.