IT Security Engineer, Space
Anduril Industries
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This role pays more than 79% of similar roles. Most pay $142,500–$202,625 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $213k versus about $173k for comparable roles.
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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 900 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $166,000–$220,000 across 857 roles with salary data.
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The System Security Engineer joins the Space team to serve as the technical security authority for space programs. This engineering role involves owning the end-to-end security architecture across spacecraft bus, payload, ground segments, and RF/comms links. You will translate threat intelligence and mission requirements into actionable security architectures, deriving specific requirements for flight software, avionics, and ground systems. Key responsibilities include designing protections for command and telemetry links, establishing hardware roots of trust, and performing security verification at every integration level. You must utilize threat modeling, attack trees, and supply chain risk assessments to secure systems that cannot be physically touched after launch. The role requires technical depth in networking, encryption, and memory protection to solve complex security challenges within contested space domains for government customers.
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