Red Team Engineer — Adversarial Architect for Autonomous Systems

Anduril Industries; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 166,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Health benefits

Top-tier benefits

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Red Team Engineer to find unmodeled failures and weaknesses before field deployment. You will design, build, and analyze real systems, using quantitative adversarial analysis to influence decisions.

You will embed with diverse teams (Systems, GNC, Software, Hardware) across space, missiles, air, and autonomy domains, and your work will directly impact mission success and decision making.

Qualifications

• Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance.
• Hands-on track record of designing, building, and analyzing real engineering systems.
• Proven ability to find problems others miss: failure analysis or equivalent.
• Independent delivery ownership with minimal management.

Responsibilities

• Independently execute red-team designs, models, and analyses across programs.
• Develop and use analysis tooling to prove or break claims.
• Reconstruct and verify others’ work, identifying unseen errors.
• Collaborate with Systems, GNC, Software, Hardware, Mission Ops, and Test teams.

Skills

Adversarial analysis

Hands-on engineering

Strong communication

Systems thinking

Education

Bachelor's in Aerospace/Engineering or related field

Tools

MATLAB

Simulink

Python (numpy/scipy)

STK/Astrogator

AFSIM

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking a Red Team Engineer to find unmodeled failures and weaknesses before field deployment. You will design, build, and analyze real systems, using quantitative adversarial analysis to influence decisions.

You will embed with diverse teams (Systems, GNC, Software, Hardware) across space, missiles, air, and autonomy domains, and your work will directly impact mission success and decision making.