Space Systems Security Architect

Anduril Industries, Inc.; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries in Costa Mesa develops defense technology and leads space-focused security programs. We seek a Systems Security Engineer to own the security architecture across space, ground, and link segments, coordinating with flight software, avionics, RF/comms, and government customers.

You will translate threat intelligence into concrete design decisions, define secure boot and data protection foundations, and drive verification across all integration stages.

Qualifications

• Experience designing security architectures for complex, multi-segment systems.
• Ability to translate threat intelligence into concrete design decisions.
• Experience collaborating across flight software, avionics, RF/comms, and ground systems.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end security architecture across space, ground, link, and user segments.
• Derive security requirements from customer needs, threat assessments, and policy.
• Design protections for command and telemetry links, including authentication and encryption.
• Define onboard security foundation: secure boot, hardware root of trust, firmware integrity.
• Build and maintain threat models and attack trees for the full mission.
• Collaborate with subsystem REs to implement security requirements.
• Run security verification at integration levels.
• Coordinate with red teams and assessment teams to identify weaknesses.
• Assess supplier hardware and software for supply chain risk.
• Brief architectures to Government customers and program leadership.
• Help build reusable security patterns and tooling.

Skills

Security architecture

Threat modeling

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Systems engineering integration

Job description

Anduril Industries in Costa Mesa develops defense technology and leads space-focused security programs. We seek a Systems Security Engineer to own the security architecture across space, ground, and link segments, coordinating with flight software, avionics, RF/comms, and government customers.

You will translate threat intelligence into concrete design decisions, define secure boot and data protection foundations, and drive verification across all integration stages.