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About Anduril Industries
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company that builds advanced hardware and software systems for national security, including autonomous drones, surveillance systems, and the Lattice AI command platform.
Anduril Industries currently has
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Listed pay typically runs
$146,000–$194,000
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Lead Security Engineer, GRC joins the Security Engineering team to build the core infrastructure for the company's governance, risk, and compliance program. This individual will develop automated pipelines to collect system evidence, map it to normalized control models, and create reusable collectors as reference architectures. The role involves establishing systems of record for controls, performing build-versus-buy analyses, and translating frameworks like CMMC, NIST 800-171, FedRAMP/IL5 into automatable technical checks. Key responsibilities include mentoring a growing engineering team and setting technical direction. Required skills include proficiency in general-purpose languages such as Go, Python, or Rust, along with experience in infrastructure as code using Terraform or AWS CDK. The role focuses on solving the problem of manual audit preparation by creating continuous evidence collection across cloud and SaaS systems via APIs and log pipelines.