Tactical Network Engineer, Connected Warfare (Active Clearance)

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.

We are hiring a Tactical Network Engineer with cybersecurity experience to lead the design and implementation of a networking stack to enable Command and Control (C2) and collaborative autonomy of distributed unmanned systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead the integration of emerging networking capabilities, bringing new hardware and software products into the family of systems.
• Lead networking requirements decomposition across cross-functional teams, defining success in the face of ambiguity.
• Design network laydowns and configurations decomposed from complex design reference missions (DRMs) involving large scale unmanned systems and forward-deployed C2 systems.
• Design, implement, deploy, and troubleshoot system networking solutions focused on Layer-1 (Physical), Layer-2 (Data), Layer-3 (Network), and Layer-4 (Transport) of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) reference model, and that meet and exceed industry-standard security goals.
• Own systems end to end with the ability to identify and solve networking problems between the seams, scrutinize system performance, make tradeoffs, and deliver an outcome.
• Perform trade-off studies of different comms and networking solutions including government provided technologies.
• Build robust tooling for benchmarking and analyzing network traffic.
• Analyze test network infrastructure, develop recommendations, and implement improvements for network reliability and throughput for edge network.
• Collaborate extensively with software engineers to build a representative modeling and simulation environment including hardware-in-the-loop lab infrastructure.

Required Qualifications

• Understanding of empirical testing criteria leveraging both quantitative and qualitative criteria for trade study and hardware/software analysis.
• Demonstrated proficiency in the application of engineering standards into engineering processes or requirements.
• 7+ years of experience with industry standard cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), Enterprise network technologies, CI/CD tools, and software infrastructure fundamentals (networking, security, distributed systems).
• Expertise in tactical LOS and BLOS RF systems.
• Experience with ad-hoc mesh networking, secure communication protocols (IPSec/MACSec, etc), software-defined networking, internet protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, etc), and routing protocols.
• Demonstrated experience collaborating across cross-functional teams.
• Comfortable working with ambiguity, evolving priorities, and challenging problems.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Experience with commercial mesh networking radios.
• Must be willing to travel for test field events up to 25%.
• Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. Secret Clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with network modeling and simulation tools and frameworks.
• Expertise in these specific tactical ship-to-ship and ship-to-shore comms: SatCom, VHF + UHF, LPI/LPD and anti-jamming, MIMO, Antenna theory.
• Expertise in Cloud Networking & Cybersecurity.
• Experience with Electronic Warfare (EW) technologies.
• Experience with Spectrum Management and deconfliction.

Benefits Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including comprehensive, competitive benefits packages available at little to no cost to employees.