GRC Automation Lead, Security Engineering

Anduril Industries; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 166,000 - 253,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Competitive benefits

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Governance, Risk, and Compliance Engineering Lead to build the core of our GRC engineering program. You will design pipelines and schemas to normalize control evidence, while guiding a growing team and aligning with federal frameworks.

The role requires deep security engineering experience, hands-on automation, and the ability to operate across cloud and SaaS data systems, with a path to U.S. Secret clearance.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in security engineering or related roles with automation experience.
• 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 a production capacity.
• Track record of setting technical direction and mentoring engineers.

Responsibilities

• Build the pipeline that collects evidence from systems and maps it to a normalized control model.
• Construct reusable collectors and schemas as reference architectures so each new control is assembly.
• Stand up the system of record for controls, mappings, and evidence; drive build-vs-buy decisions.
• Surface control drift and route findings to system owners with remediation plans.
• Translate frameworks (CMMC, NIST 800-171, FedRAMP/IL5) into automatable checks and pass/fail signals.
• Set technical direction and mentor a growing engineering team.

Skills

Security engineering

GRC

Go/Python/Rust

Automation pipelines

Data collection pipelines

IaC Terraform/AWS CDK

Mentoring engineers

Independent ownership

US Secret clearance eligible

Tools

Terraform

AWS CDK

Kubernetes

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking a Governance, Risk, and Compliance Engineering Lead to build the core of our GRC engineering program. You will design pipelines and schemas to normalize control evidence, while guiding a growing team and aligning with federal frameworks.

The role requires deep security engineering experience, hands-on automation, and the ability to operate across cloud and SaaS data systems, with a path to U.S. Secret clearance.