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A venture-backed AI company is hiring security engineers to harden software for an air-defense system whose job is to find and destroy drones, showing how the defense industry is being rebuilt around software-first startups.
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.
ABOUT THE TEAM
The Air Defense team builds robots that find other robots and knock them out of the sky. At a time when air superiority can no longer be taken for granted, the Air Defense Team provides mission critical capabilities to warfighters. From detection to tracking, identification, deterrence, and defeat, our family of networked sensors and effectors enables our customers to rapidly close the kill chain against a broad range of Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) threats. Working across product, engineering, sales, logistics, operations, and mission success, the Air Defense team develops, tests, deploys, and sustains the Anduril Air Defense Family of Systems (FoS) in challenging operational environments worldwide.
ABOUT THE JOB
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 threat. That makes product security a hardware-and-software problem, not a policy exercise. As our international portfolio grows—the compliance and exportability requirements on our platform are growing with it. We're hiring for someone to focus on these challenges, a Software Engineer to own product security for the Air Defense platforms.
This is a new role, born from the recognition that security for fielded defense hardware is a nuanced discipline that deserves focused investment rather than ad-hoc coverage. You'll be the technical driver for security on the platform—hands-on with embedded Linux, firmware, and hardware interfaces—while also serving as the connective tissue between the teams whose work has to come together for the product to ship securely. You'll also drive the hands-on platform work that supports it—updating firmware, updating fusing tools, improving encryption algorithms, and building and re-imaging towers using our NixOS-based build system.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:
At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next. For more information, Explore Our Benefits.
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