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Salary: USD 166,000 - 220,000 / annual
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company transforming U.S. and allied military capabilities through advanced technology. The Air Dominance & Strike (AD&S) Mission Systems Cyber Security team builds security into the mission software stack from the ground up, rather than treating it as a separate concern bolted on at the end.
As a Mission Software Engineer on this team, you will design and build secure software systems for autonomous robotics platforms including the Fury unmanned fighter jet and the Barracuda family of advanced effects. Your work will span multiple critical areas: architecting resilient mission-critical systems resistant to compromise, hardening software and systems that run on vehicles, building monitoring and detection capabilities to identify and respond to security events in the field, and ensuring that only trusted, verified software reaches production vehicles.
This role sits at the intersection of software engineering and security. You will write production-grade code, design systems with security built in from the start, and work on real-world deployment and testing. The team values strong software engineers who can think holistically about security architecture while maintaining the ability to ship robust, performant code.
You will travel up to 30% of the time to build, test, and deploy capabilities in real-world environments.
**REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:**
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or related field
- 2–3+ years of production-grade C++, Rust, or equivalent experience in a Linux development environment
- Experience designing and building secure software systems
- Ability to quickly understand and navigate complex systems and established code bases
- Travel up to 30% of time to build, test, and deploy capabilities in the real world
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance
- Track record of high ownership and bias for action
**PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:**
- Experience hardening Linux-based systems and reducing attack surface (disabling unused services, minimizing installed packages, enforcing least-privilege configurations)
- Familiarity with vulnerability scanning and remediation tooling and workflows
- Experience implementing cryptographic key management, secure boot, or code-signing pipelines
- Understanding of system monitoring and anomaly detection approaches for identifying and responding to security events
- Experience designing software architectures that isolate components by trust level or security domain
- Familiarity with identity and access management patterns (role-based access control, multi-factor authentication)
- Experience deploying, debugging, and testing software on physical systems in lab and test site environments
- Exposure to government reference architectures or compliance frameworks (STIGs, NIST security controls)
- Knowledge of embedded or safety-critical systems and how security constraints interact with real-time or resource-constrained environments
- Active Secret U.S. security clearance
