Tactical Networking Engineer

Anduril Industries

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Work type
On-site
Location
Irvine, CA
Salary
$112,000–$149,000 / yr
Posted
2 days ago
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Below market

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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 916 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Tactical Networking Engineer

The Tactical Networking Engineer joins the Air Defense team to lead the design and implementation of a networking stack for command and control and collaborative autonomy of distributed unmanned systems. You will design, deploy, and troubleshoot networking solutions across the OSI model, perform trade-off studies on communications solutions, and build benchmarking tools for network traffic analysis. Key responsibilities include designing network laydowns from complex design reference missions and collaborating on hardware-in-the-loop lab infrastructure. Required expertise includes tactical LOS and BLOS RF systems, SatCom, VHF/UHF, MIMO, and antenna theory. You must possess skills in ad-hoc mesh networking, IPSec/MACSec, SD-WANs, and TCP/IP. The role addresses the technical challenge of enabling networked sensors and effectors to rapidly close the kill chain against unmanned aerial system threats.

What you'll do

  • Design, implement, deploy, and troubleshoot networking solutions across the OSI model layers.
  • Perform trade-off studies for various communications and networking solutions, including government-provided technologies.
  • Design network laydowns and configurations for large-scale unmanned systems and forward-deployed C2 systems.
  • Build robust tooling for benchmarking and analyzing network traffic.
  • Analyze test network infrastructure to develop and implement improvements for reliability and throughput.
  • Build representative modeling and simulation environments including hardware-in-the-loop lab infrastructure.

What we're looking for

  • Expertise in tactical LOS and BLOS RF systems, including SatCom, VHF/UHF, LPI/LPD, anti-jamming, MIMO, and antenna theory.
  • Experience with networking protocols including ad-hoc mesh, IPSec/MACSec, SD-WAN, TCP/IP, DNS, and small/large scale routing.
  • Ability to design, implement, and troubleshoot networking solutions across OSI Layers 1 through 4.
  • Ability to design network laydowns and configurations from complex design reference missions for large scale unmanned systems.
  • Willingness to travel for test field events up to 25%.
  • Eligibility to obtain and hold a DoD security clearance.
  • Active clearance status (preferred).
  • Experience with middlewares (DDS, ROS, MQTT), network modeling tools, EW technologies, or unmanned systems (preferred).

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