Maritime Tactical Network Engineer for Autonomous Systems

Anduril Industries; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 146,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Tactical Network & Mission Systems Engineer to design, implement, and validate the networking backbone for distributed autonomous maritime platforms. You will connect undersea, surface, aerial, and sensor systems with secure, software-defined connectivity, shipping working systems and solving complex integration challenges in contested environments.

The role requires hands-on coding, rapid prototyping, and close collaboration with platform teams to ensure

Qualifications

• 6-10 years of experience in network engineering, software-defined networking, distributed communications systems, or tactical network engineering.
• Hands-on builder: you write code, configure infrastructure, capture packets, and debug problems in production.
• Strong depth across the network stack: RF, acoustic, optical, satellite, and software-defined orchestration.
• Experience building networking solutions for autonomous systems, unmanned platforms, or distributed mission-critical systems -- ideally in environments where connectivity is unreliable.
• Ability to work cross-functionally with engineering teams you don't report to -- solving problems collaboratively, not waiting for direction.
• Experience with military or defense networking: HAIPE/Type 1 crypto, cross-domain solutions, tactical datalinks, coalition networking, or classified network interconnection.
• Systems-level thinking: you can reason from mission requirements backward into network performance specs.
• Clear communicator -- able to explain technical tradeoffs to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
• US citizenship with active Secret clearance (minimum); TS preferred.
• Willingness to travel ~25% (operational exercises, Anduril facilities, customer sites).
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance

Responsibilities

• Design and implement network infrastructure, SDN control planes, protocol integrations, and transport solutions for maritime autonomous systems -- you ship working systems
• Build cross-domain transport solutions that span acoustic modems, tactical RF, satellite backhaul, and classified terrestrial networks -- integrating them into cohesive, software-defined connectivity
• Work cross-functionally with platform teams (undersea, surface, aerial, sensors, C2) -- writing code alongside their engineers, implementing common interfaces, and solving integration problems hands-on
• Develop and validate networking solutions for contested and degraded environments: mesh networking, store-and-forward, priority-based traffic management, and graceful degradation under link loss
• Implement multinational network architecture enabling classified data flow between US, Australian, and UK sovereign environments while maintaining security compliance
• Support operational exercises and demonstrations by delivering network infrastructure that proves integrated capability in at-sea environments -- you''ll be there when it matters
• Contribute to architecture decisions by prototyping solutions, running performance tests, and providing data-driven input on design tradeoffs to inform the broader networking strategy
• Build for scale: implement networking solutions that work for 2 vehicles in a demo and can extend to 200 vehicles in an operational fleet, with graceful degradation when links are contested or denied
• Document and share: build the patterns, tooling, and documentation that let other engineers across Maritime contribute to the networking layer without breaking coherence

Skills

Network engineering

SDN

Tactical networking

Cross-functional teamwork

Communication skills

Security clearance

Tools

HAIPE Crypto

CANES/Link-16

Lattice, ROS/ROS2

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking a Tactical Network & Mission Systems Engineer to design, implement, and validate the networking backbone for distributed autonomous maritime platforms. You will connect undersea, surface, aerial, and sensor systems with secure, software-defined connectivity, shipping working systems and solving complex integration challenges in contested environments.

The role requires hands-on coding, rapid prototyping, and close collaboration with platform teams to ensure