Staff Red Team Engineer, Discovery

The Discovery team at Anduril is at the forefront of incubating and maturing high-potential software-defined AI-native offerings that meet the toughest newest challenges across hardware software space and cyber domains. Were the architects of mission autonomy and mesh networking delivering scalable solutions that meet some of the most urgent national security needs. By working hand-in-hand with elite teams in Perception AI Motion Planning Hardware Test Engineering Space Networking and Vehicle hardware we craft cutting-edge end-to-end systems that redefine mission success.

As a Staff Red Team Engineer you are the adversary to our own systems. Your job is to find the wrong assumption the unmodeled failure mode and the design weakness before it reaches the field when its still cheap to fix. This is not a slide-reviewing role: you bring hands-on experience designing building and analyzing real engineering systems and you turn that builders intuition into rigorous quantitative adversarial analysis that changes decisions.

This is a critical deeply cross-functional role. You will embed with and pressure-test the work of Systems Engineering GNC Software Hardware Mission Operations and Test Engineering independently reconstructing their analyses breaking their models and stress-testing their trade studies. Because our systems span domains space missiles air autonomy sensors you are expected to reason across all of them and follow a problem wherever it leads. The breadth and credibility of your analysis will be a critical element of mission success.

This role is directly tied to ongoing funded programs within Andurils Discovery Business Line building and fielding resilient software-defined systems across numerous mission threads on operationally relevant timelines

• Independently red-team designs models and analyses across the program hunt failure modes surface hidden assumptions and pressure-test trade studies before decisions are locked in
• Build the models and simulations needed to prove or break a claim rather than taking it on faith often developing the analysis tooling yourself
• Reconstruct and independently verify others work; find the error everyone else missed
• Work shoulder-to-shoulder with Systems GNC Software Hardware Mission Ops and Test teams translating findings into clear actionable guidance that measurably improves the design
• Bring hands-on systems-building experience to bear so problems are caught in analysis not in flight
• Communicate complex results including strong visual presentation of data to engineers leadership and stakeholders

• Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance
• Hands-on track record of both designing/building and analyzing real engineering systems not analysis-only
• Demonstrated ability to find problems others miss: failure analysis adversarial review independent verification or equivalent
• Proven track record of independently owning and executing deliverables with little to no management
• Proficiency with physics-math scripting (e.g. MATLAB Simulink Python numpy/scipy)
• Strong engineering background in a relevant field (Aerospace Dynamics & Controls GNC Systems or similar)
• Outstanding communication skills including visual presentation of complex data

• 10 years in a relevant science/engineering field
• Hands-on design and analysis experience across multiple of: space systems missiles / missile defense air vehicles GNC sensors and sensor fusion radar EW. You are not expected to have all of these the more breadth the better
• Formal red-team T&E IV&V mission-assurance or failure-analysis experience
• Comfort moving fluidly between domains and physics regimes within a single problem
• Exceptional proficiency with physics-math scripting of your choice
• Familiarity with domain analysis tools as relevant (e.g. STK/Astrogator AFSIM)
• Experience with genetic algorithms machine learning AI and reinforcement learning

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 Andurils 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 youre supported in health recovery and whatever comes next.For more information Explore Our Benefits.

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