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Salary: USD 112,000 - 149,000 / annual
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company transforming U.S. and allied military capabilities through advanced technology. The Air Defense team builds networked sensors and effectors that detect, track, identify, and defeat unmanned aerial system (UAS) threats. This role is part of a mission-critical effort to provide air defense capabilities to warfighters worldwide.
As a Tactical Networking Engineer, you will lead the design and implementation of a networking stack enabling command and control (C2) and collaborative autonomy of distributed unmanned systems. You will work across the full OSI stack—from physical layer through transport—designing robust solutions for tactical environments.
Key responsibilities include:
- Design, implement, deploy, and troubleshoot networking solutions across OSI Layers 1-4 (Physical, Data, Network, Transport)
- Perform trade-off studies of communications and networking solutions, including government-provided technologies
- Design network laydowns and configurations decomposed from complex design reference missions involving large-scale unmanned systems and forward-deployed C2 systems
- Build robust tooling for benchmarking and analyzing network traffic
- Analyze test network infrastructure, develop recommendations, and implement improvements for network reliability and throughput in edge network environments
- Collaborate extensively with software engineers to build representative modeling and simulation environments, including hardware-in-the-loop lab infrastructure
- Travel for test field events up to 25%
REQUIREMENTS:
- Expertise in tactical line-of-sight (LOS) and beyond-line-of-sight (BLOS) RF systems, especially in maritime environments for ship-to-ship and ship-to-shore communications
- Deep knowledge of SatCom, VHF/UHF, LPI/LPD and anti-jamming techniques, MIMO, and antenna theory
- Experience with networking protocols and technologies including ad-hoc mesh networking, secure communication protocols (IPSec/MACSec), Software-Defined Networking/SD-WANs, Internet protocols (TCP/IP, DNS), and routing protocols (both small-scale mesh and large-scale internet routing)
- Eligibility to obtain and hold a DoD security clearance
- Willingness to travel for test field events up to 25%
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Active DoD security clearance
- Experience with middleware technologies (DDS, ROS, MQTT)
- Experience with network modeling and simulation tools and frameworks
- Background in electronic warfare (EW) technologies
- Experience with unmanned aerial or surface systems
