Senior Software Engineer, Cryptography
Anduril IndustriesBase Salary
$191k - $253k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the technical vision and architecture for platform security across Anduril’s product ecosystem.
- Design cryptographic systems, protocols, and key management architectures for autonomous and robotic platforms in contested and disconnected environments.
- Lead hardware root-of-trust architectures integrating TPMs, TEEs, HSMs, secure boot, and diverse embedded platforms.
- Drive the promotion of business-line security implementations into shared, composable platform services.
- Serve as the senior technical authority for security architecture, cryptographic design, protocol security, and system-hardening reviews.
- Define security patterns, reference architectures, and engineering standards for organization-wide secure development.
- Mentor senior engineers and raise security engineering standards across the organization.
- Represent Anduril’s security engineering capabilities to customers, partners, and auditors.
- Evaluate emerging threats, cryptographic standards, and security technologies and drive adoption where beneficial.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience with significant depth in systems security and cryptography.
- Expert knowledge of cryptographic protocol design, key management architectures, certificate systems, and cryptographic agility.
- Deep experience with TPM, TEE, HSM, secure boot, and hardware root-of-trust design across multiple platform types.
- Proficiency in two or more of C++, Rust, and Go.
- Experience designing security architectures for embedded, real-time, or robotic systems with constrained environments.
- Track record of leading cross-organizational technical initiatives and architectural decisions spanning multiple teams.
- Experience performing and leading threat modeling, security architecture reviews, and cryptographic design reviews.
- Eligibility to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.
- Preferred experience with post-quantum cryptography, distributed key generation, or threshold cryptographic schemes.
- Preferred background in defense, aerospace, or autonomous systems and exposure to FIPS 140, Common Criteria, or NSA CSfC requirements.
- Preferred experience designing secure communication protocols for autonomous platforms or mesh networks.
- Preferred knowledge of Linux kernel security, SELinux, AppArmor, and OS hardening at scale.
- Preferred experience building platform security services consumed by multiple teams.
- Preferred familiarity with STIGs, NIST 800-53, CMMC, and translating compliance requirements into engineering controls.
- Publications, patents, or recognized contributions in cryptography or systems security are preferred.
- Preferred experience with Nix build systems and reproducible build pipelines for security-critical software.
Benefits
- Comprehensive and competitive benefits package available at little to no cost for full-time employees.
- Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers.
About Anduril Industries
Anduril is not a traditional defense contractor. We are shaping the future of defense, transforming US & allied military capabilities with advanced technology. We emphasize speed and results and control our products from start to finish, including funding R&D to selling finished products off the shelf. Today, Anduril is in a rapid growth phase, deploying technology in diverse locations and developing path-making products that will change defense forever. We believe that everyone at Anduril can be a catalyst. Your perspective can change lives, and we want to help you make your mark. Our team includes thinkers and doers working interdependently. We bring the brightest minds and best-in-class talent together with veterans who have lived the problems of our warfighters. If you like building quickly and seeing your work deployed in the real world, we want you at Anduril. With offices in Orange County, Washington DC, Seattle, Boston, Atlanta, London, and Sydney, our reach is wide. Check out our careers page at https://www.anduril.com/careers or send us an email at careers@anduril.com.