Staff Red Team Engineer: Adversarial Systems Architect

Andreessen Horowitz; United States; On-site; USD 220,000 - 292,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Staff Red Team Engineer to challenge our own designs, stress-test trade studies, and expose hidden failure modes before field deployment. You will embed with Systems, GNC, Software, Hardware, Mission Ops and Test Engineering to drive rigorous adversarial analysis.

This role requires a Top Secret clearance and hands-on experience building and analyzing real engineering systems, with strong communication of complex results to engineers and leaders.

Qualifications

• Active U.S. Top Secret clearance.
• Hands-on track record designing/building and analyzing real engineering systems.
• Proven ability to find problems others miss: failure analysis, adversarial review, independent verification, or equivalent.
• Proven ability to own and execute deliverables with little to no management.
• Outstanding communication skills, including visual presentation of complex data.
• Strong engineering background in Aerospace, Dynamics & Controls, GNC, Systems, or similar.
• Proficiency with physics-math scripting (Matlab/Simulink/Python).

Responsibilities

• Independently 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.
• Build the models and simulations needed to prove or break a claim, 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

Active Top Secret clearance

Hands-on systems experience

Independent ownership

Communication of complex data

Physics-math scripting

Tools

MATLAB

Simulink

Python + numpy/scipy

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking a Staff Red Team Engineer to challenge our own designs, stress-test trade studies, and expose hidden failure modes before field deployment. You will embed with Systems, GNC, Software, Hardware, Mission Ops and Test Engineering to drive rigorous adversarial analysis.

This role requires a Top Secret clearance and hands-on experience building and analyzing real engineering systems, with strong communication of complex results to engineers and leaders.