System Security Engineer, Space

Anduril Industries

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Work type
On-site
Location
Costa Mesa, CA
Salary
$183,000–$243,000 / yr
Posted
2 days ago
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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.

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TL;DR · System Security Engineer, Space

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.

What you'll do

  • Own the end-to-end security architecture for space, ground, link, and user segments.
  • Derive security requirements from threat assessments and flow them down to subsystem specifications.
  • Design protections for command and telemetry links, including encryption and key management.
  • Define onboard security foundations like secure boot, hardware root of trust, and firmware integrity.
  • Build and maintain threat models and attack trees to drive design decisions.
  • Partner with engineering teams to turn security requirements into working implementations and review code.
  • Develop and run security verification at every integration level from unit to end-to-end.
  • Assess supplier hardware and software for supply chain risk and set vendor security requirements.

What we're looking for

  • Experience designing security architectures for complex, multi-segment systems including spacecraft bus, payload, ground segment, and RF/comms links.
  • Ability to decompose system-level security architecture into actionable subsystem-level requirements for engineering teams.
  • Hands-on understanding of threat modeling and translating threat intelligence into concrete design decisions.
  • Experience working across flight software, avionics, RF/comms, and ground systems with sufficient technical depth in each.
  • Familiarity with the full system lifecycle from requirements through verification and on-orbit operations.
  • Experience with supply chain security as it applies to space or defense systems.
  • Direct experience working with U.S. Government customers on classified or sensitive programs.
  • CCNP certification or equivalent advanced networking credential.

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