Principal Cryptography & Platform Security Architect

Anduril Industries; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 220,000 - 292,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a principal-level engineer to lead platform security across our product ecosystem in Seattle. You will own cryptographic infrastructure, hardware root-of-trust architectures for robotic systems, and secure communications for contested environments.

This role combines deep cryptography and systems security with the ability to drive security strategy across business lines. You will mentor engineers and influence security patterns, standards, and platform services.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering with depth in systems security and cryptography.
• Expert-level cryptographic protocol design, key management, and cryptographic agility.
• Deep experience with hardware security: TPM, TEE, HSM, secure boot.
• Proficient in two or more of: C++, Rust, Go.
• Experience designing security architectures for embedded, real-time, or robotic systems with constrained environments.
• Track record of leading cross-organizational technical initiatives and driving architectural decisions.
• Strong ability to communicate complex security concepts to engineering leadership, product teams, and external stakeholders.
• Experience performing and leading threat modeling, security architecture reviews, and cryptographic design reviews.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain active U.S. Secret security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical vision and architecture for platform security across Anduril’s product ecosystem.
• Design cryptographic systems, protocols, and key management architectures for autonomous and robotic platforms operating in contested and disconnected environments.
• Lead the design of hardware root-of-trust architectures integrating TPMs, TEEs, HSMs, and secure boot across diverse embedded platforms.
• Drive the strategy for promoting business-line security implementations into shared, composable platform services.
• Serve as the senior technical authority for security architecture reviews across the organization, providing definitive guidance on cryptographic design, protocol security, and system hardening.
• Define security patterns, reference architectures, and engineering standards that enable teams across Anduril to build securely and independently.
• Mentor and develop senior engineers on the team, raising the bar for security engineering across the organization.
• Represent Anduril’s security engineering capabilities to customers, partners, and auditors when deep technical credibility is required.
• Evaluate emerging threats, cryptographic standards, and security technologies, driving adoption where they strengthen the platform.

Skills

Security engineering

Cryptography

Hardware security

Threat modeling

Security architecture

Communication

Security reviews

Leadership

Tools

C++

Rust

Go

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking a principal-level engineer to lead platform security across our product ecosystem in Seattle. You will own cryptographic infrastructure, hardware root-of-trust architectures for robotic systems, and secure communications for contested environments.

This role combines deep cryptography and systems security with the ability to drive security strategy across business lines. You will mentor engineers and influence security patterns, standards, and platform services.