Senior Systems Security Engineer, Programs

Anduril Anduril · Defense · Costa Mesa, CA · Corporate Technology : Information Systems

Senior Systems Security Engineer at Anduril, a defense technology company. The role focuses on driving security engineering principles into the design and integration of advanced technologies, including AI systems, command and control platforms, aerospace vehicles, and sensors. Responsibilities include owning security end-to-end for products, implementing security features, developing test strategies, and collaborating with engineering teams. Requires 8+ years of experience, a Bachelor's degree, and a strong understanding of systems security engineering, cybersecurity, and embedded systems security, with a focus on defense/national security systems. Must possess and maintain a US Secret security clearance with SAP eligibility and be able to obtain a Top Secret clearance.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own security end-to-end for assigned products—derive and decompose security requirements from customer needs and threat intelligence, design security architectures, and manage security through the full product lifecycle
  2. Implement security features and capabilities, develop and execute comprehensive security test strategies at multiple integration levels, and support major milestone deliveries (SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, PRR)
  3. Brief security architectures and approaches to government customers and program leadership, translating complex security concepts for diverse audiences
  4. Collaborates and builds solutions with engineering teams to meet and exceed industry-standard security goals
  5. Collaborate with security assessment teams to assess Anduril’s products and integrated components to uncover potential weaknesses

Skills

Required

  • 8+ years of experience
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent education/work experience
  • Leading a team to solve complex security engineering challenges
  • Evaluate trade spaces and offer optimal security solutions against program risks
  • Systems Security Engineering
  • Cybersecurity
  • Systems Engineering
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Software Engineering
  • Computer Engineering
  • Computer Science
  • Familiarity with security-relevant features on embedded hardware / FPGAs (e.g., secure boot, key management, etc.)
  • Security engineering and architecture for defense / national security systems and/or complex embedded commercial systems
  • Effectively brief and interact regularly with highly technical government customers
  • Strong understanding of the “why” behind the product, systems, and security design
  • Excellent verbal & written communication skills
  • Currently possesses and is able to maintain at least a final active US Secret security clearance with SAP eligibility
  • Must be able to obtain a Top Secret security clearance

Nice to have

  • Python
  • Rust
  • Go
  • C/C++
  • Assessing security of firmware, applications, network, IoT, or embedded systems
  • Modern USG cyber methodologies, including Cyber Survivability guidance and related policy (JSIG, ICD 503, CSEIG, SSECG, NIST SP 800-160, Cyber T&E Guidebook, CMMC, etc.)
  • Developing cyber documentation for USG customers
  • Excelling across the broader Systems Security Engineering domain, encompassing embedded Systems Engineering, Cybersecurity, Cyber Resiliency, Software Security
  • Creating and integrating with system design documentation in MBSE tools
  • Integrating with Software Assurance, Supply Chain Risk Management, Configuration Management, and System Test
  • Executing the Anti-Tamper process and authoring associated documentation
  • Security testing on DoD systems (e.g. penetration testing, red teaming, vulnerability assessments)
  • Working with unmanned aircraft Group 3 class and above
  • Working with government or national security space systems
  • U.S. TS Security clearance with SCI and/or SAP eligibility

What the JD emphasized

  • security engineering
  • security architecture
  • security test strategies
  • security assessment
  • security teams
  • security design
  • security clearance
  • Top Secret security clearance