Senior Red Team Engineer — Mission-Critical Systems

Anduril Industries; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 191,000 - 253,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Health benefits

Retirement plan

Job summary

Anduril Industries in the United States seeks a Senior Red Team Engineer to act as the adversary to our own systems, finding wrong assumptions, unmodeled failure modes, and design weaknesses before field deployment. You bring hands‑on experience designing, building, and analyzing real engineering systems, turning builder intuition into rigorous, quantitative adversarial analysis.

This is a cross‑functional role embedding with Systems, GNC, Software, Hardware, Mission Operations, and Test

Qualifications

• Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance.
• Hands-on track record of both designing/building and analyzing real engineering systems — not analysis-only.
• Demonstrated ability to find problems others miss: failure analysis, adversarial review, independent verification, or equivalent.
• Proven track record of independently owning and executing deliverables with little to no management.
• Proficiency with physics-math scripting (e.g., MATLAB, Simulink, Python + numpy/scipy).
• Strong engineering background in a relevant field (Aerospace, Dynamics & Controls, GNC, Systems, or similar).
• Outstanding communication skills, including visual presentation of complex data.

Responsibilities

• Independently execute red‑team designs, models, and analyses across the program — hunt failure modes, surface hidden assumptions, and pressure‑test trade studies before decisions are locked in
• Contribute to the models and simulations needed to prove or break a claim, rather than taking it on faith — often developing the analysis tooling yourself
• Reconstruct and independently verify others’ work; find the error everyone else missed
• Work shoulder‑to‑shoulder with Systems, GNC, Software, Hardware, Mission Ops, and Test teams, translating findings into clear, actionable guidance that measurably improves the design
• Bring hands‑on systems‑building experience to bear so problems are caught in analysis, not in flight
• Communicate complex results — including strong visual presentation of data — to engineers, leadership, and stakeholders

Skills

Top Secret clearance

Hands-on design

Physics-math scripting

MATLAB

Simulink

Python + numpy/scipy

Systems engineering

Tools

STK

Astrogator

AFSIM

Job description

Anduril Industries in the United States seeks a Senior Red Team Engineer to act as the adversary to our own systems, finding wrong assumptions, unmodeled failure modes, and design weaknesses before field deployment. You bring hands‑on experience designing, building, and analyzing real engineering systems, turning builder intuition into rigorous, quantitative adversarial analysis.

This is a cross‑functional role embedding with Systems, GNC, Software, Hardware, Mission Operations, and Test