GRC Automation Lead for Defense Tech

JobCubby; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 166,000 - 253,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive benefits

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Governance, Risk, and Compliance Engineering Lead to build the engineering core of our GRC program. You will design pipelines that turn system data into defensible compliance evidence and mentor a growing team.

You will translate CMMC and NIST frameworks into automated checks, stand up a system of record for controls, and drive build-vs-buy decisions while collaborating across partner teams. This role offers substantial impact in a defense tech environment.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in security engineering, GRC, or a related role with hands-on automation experience.
• Strong programming ability in Go, Python, Rust, or similar languages.
• Hands-on experience operationalizing compliance frameworks (CMMC, NIST 800-171, 800-53, FedRAMP, SOC 2).
• Experience designing data collection and integration across cloud and SaaS systems (APIs, log/event pipelines, data lakes).
• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, AWS CDK) in production.
• Track record of setting technical direction and mentoring engineers.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret clearance.

Responsibilities

• Build the pipeline that collects evidence from Anduril's systems and maps it to a normalized control model.
• Construct reusable collectors and schemas as reference architectures so each new control is assembly, not reinvention.
• Stand up the system of record for controls, mappings, and evidence, and drive the build-vs-buy analysis.
• Surface control drift and route findings to system owners with clear remediation and risk-acceptance paths.
• Translate frameworks (CMMC, NIST 800-171, FedRAMP/IL5) into automatable technical checks and pass/fail signals.
• Set technical direction and mentor a growing engineering team.

Skills

Security engineering

Automation pipelines

Go

Python

Rust

GRC frameworks

Cloud data integration

Infrastructure as code

Mentoring

Security clearance readiness

Tools

Terraform

AWS CDK

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking a Governance, Risk, and Compliance Engineering Lead to build the engineering core of our GRC program. You will design pipelines that turn system data into defensible compliance evidence and mentor a growing team.

You will translate CMMC and NIST frameworks into automated checks, stand up a system of record for controls, and drive build-vs-buy decisions while collaborating across partner teams. This role offers substantial impact in a defense tech environment.