Space Systems Security Architect

VulnU; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 183,000 - 243,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Competitive benefits

Equity grants

Job summary

Anduril Industries in Costa Mesa, CA, is seeking a Systems Security Engineer to own the security architecture for space programs. You will work with flight software, avionics, RF/comms, and ground teams to ensure designs withstand real threats and can be proven at milestones.

You will translate threat intelligence into concrete requirements, derive security specs for subsystems, and collaborate with government customers to present secure, verifiable architectures while guiding risk reduction

Qualifications

• Experience designing security architectures for complex, multi-segment systems (spacecraft bus, payload, ground segment, RF/comms).
• Ability to decompose system-level security architecture into subsystem-level requirements that engineers can build and test.
• Hands-on threat modeling translating intelligence into concrete design decisions.
• Experience with supply chain security in defense/space contexts.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end security architecture for space systems across space, ground, link, and user segments.
• Derive and flow security requirements to subsystem teams from customer needs and threat assessments.
• Design protections for command and telemetry links including authentication, encryption, anti-replay, and key management.
• Lead security verification at unit, subsystem, flatsat, spacecraft, and end-to-end with ground segment.

Skills

Threat modeling

Security architecture

Systems thinking

Cross-discipline collaboration

Threat intelligence

Tools

Networking certification

Job description

Anduril Industries in Costa Mesa, CA, is seeking a Systems Security Engineer to own the security architecture for space programs. You will work with flight software, avionics, RF/comms, and ground teams to ensure designs withstand real threats and can be proven at milestones.

You will translate threat intelligence into concrete requirements, derive security specs for subsystems, and collaborate with government customers to present secure, verifiable architectures while guiding risk reduction