Red Team Engineer: Adversarial Systems & Analysis

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Extensive benefits

Job summary

Anduril Industries in Washington, DC seeks a Red Team Engineer to identify design weaknesses before fielding. You will design, build, and analytically stress real systems across space, missiles, air vehicles, and autonomy, embedding with multidisciplinary teams to pressure-test assumptions.

You will own rigorous analyses, develop tooling, and clearly present results to leadership—driving safer, more capable defense technology in a mission-critical role.

Qualifications

• Active U.S. Top Secret clearance
• Hands-on design, build and analyze real engineering systems
• Ability to identify problems others miss: failure analysis and adversarial review
• Proficiency with physics-math scripting (MATLAB, Simulink, Python)
• Strong engineering background in Aerospace, Dynamics & Controls, GNC, Systems
• Outstanding communication, including data visualization

Responsibilities

• Execute red-team designs, models, and analyses across programs to hunt failure modes and surface assumptions
• Develop or modify models and simulations; often build analysis tooling
• Reconstruct and verify others' work; identify missed issues
• Collaborate with Systems, GNC, Software, Hardware, Mission Ops, and Test teams; translate findings into actionable guidance
• Bring hands-on systems-building experience to ensure problems are caught in analysis
• Communicate complex results to engineers, leadership, and stakeholders

Skills

Hands-on engineering

Adversarial analysis

Physics-math scripting

Strong communication

System engineering background

Education

Bachelor's degree in Aerospace or related field

Tools

MATLAB/Simulink

Python + NumPy/SciPy

STK/Astrogator

AFSIM

Job description

Anduril Industries in Washington, DC seeks a Red Team Engineer to identify design weaknesses before fielding. You will design, build, and analytically stress real systems across space, missiles, air vehicles, and autonomy, embedding with multidisciplinary teams to pressure-test assumptions.

You will own rigorous analyses, develop tooling, and clearly present results to leadership—driving safer, more capable defense technology in a mission-critical role.