Tactical Networking Engineer

Anduril Industries; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 112,000 - 149,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Health benefits

Job summary

Anduril Industries in Irvine, CA is seeking a Tactical Networking Engineer to lead the design and implementation of a networking stack enabling command and control and collaborative autonomy of distributed unmanned systems.

You will work across OSI layers, perform system trade studies, and build tooling for benchmarking while collaborating with software teams to create hardware-in-the-loop simulations for field testing.

Qualifications

• Expertise in tactical LOS and BLOS RF systems especially in maritime environment for ship-to-ship and ship-to-shore comms.
• Experience with networking protocols and technologies, including: Ad-hoc mesh networking; Secure communication protocols - IPSec / MACSec; Software-Defined Networking / SD-WANs; Internet protocols - TCP/IP, DNS; Routing protocols.
• Must be willing to travel for test field events up to 25%
• Eligible to obtain and hold a DoD security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, deploy, and troubleshoot networking solutions across OSI layers (Physical to Transport).
• Perform trade-off studies of comms and networking solutions.
• Design network laydowns for large-scale unmanned systems and forward-deployed C2 systems.
• Build robust tooling for benchmarking and analyzing network traffic.
• Analyze test network infrastructure and implement improvements for reliability and throughput.
• Collaborate with software engineers to build a modeling and simulation environment including hardware-in-the-loop lab infrastructure.

Skills

Tactical RF systems

Ad-hoc mesh networking

IPSec / MACSec

SD-WANs

TCP/IP

Tools

DDS

ROS

MQTT

Job description

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

About The Team

The Air Defense team builds robots that find other robots and knock them out of the sky. At a time when air superiority can no longer be taken for granted, the Air Defense Team provides mission critical capabilities to warfighters. From detection to tracking, identification, deterrence, and defeat, our family of networked sensors and effectors enables our customers to rapidly close the kill chain against a broad range of Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) threats. Working across product, engineering, sales, logistics, operations, and mission success, the Air Defense team develops, tests, deploys, and sustains the Anduril Air Defense Family of Systems (FoS) in challenging operational environments worldwide.

What You'll Do

We are hiring a Tactical Networking Engineer to lead the design and implementation of a networking stack to enable command and control (C2) and collaborative autonomy of distributed unmanned systems.

You Will

• Design, implement, deploy, and troubleshoot networking solutions focused on Layer-1 (Physical), Layer-2 (Data), Layer-3 (Network), and Layer-4 (Transport) of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) reference model
• Perform trade-off studies of different comms and networking solutions including government provided technologies
• Design network laydowns and configurations decomposed from complex design reference missions (DRMs) involving large scale unmanned systems and forward-deployed C2 systems.
• Build robust tooling for benchmarking and analyzing network traffic
• Analyze test network infrastructure, develop recommendations, and implement improvements for network reliability and throughput for edge network
• Collaborate extensively with software engineers to build a representative modeling and simulation environment including hardware-in-the-loop lab infrastructure

Required Qualifications

• Expertise in tactical LOS and BLOS RF systems especially in maritime environment for ship-to-ship and ship-to-shore comms
  • SatCom
  • VHF + UHF
  • LPI/LPD and anti-jamming
  • MIMO
  • Antenna theory
• Experience with networking protocols and technologies, including:
  • Ad-hoc mesh networking
  • Secure communication protocols - IPSec / MACSec
  • Software-Defined Networking / SD-WANs
  • Internet protocols - TCP/IP, DNS, etc.
  • Routing protocols (small and large scale - e.g. mesh routing as well as internet-scale routing across autonomous systems)
• Must be willing to travel for test field events up to 25%
• Eligible to obtain and hold a DoD security clearance

Preferred Qualifications

• Active clearance status
• Experience with existing middlewares (e.g., DDS, ROS, MQTT)
• Experience with network modeling and simulation tools and frameworks
• Experience with electronic warfare (EW) technologies
• Experience with unmanned aerial or surface systems

US Salary Range

$112,000—$149,000 USD

Benefits

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package.

Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including: At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next.

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