Tactical Network Engineer - Clearance Required

Tactical Network Engineer - Clearance Required

Seattle, Washington, United States

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company dedicated to transforming U.S. and allied military capabilities through advanced technology. Leveraging modern business models and cutting‑edge AI, computer vision, and networking, Anduril builds systems powered by Lattice OS—an AI‑driven operating system that aggregates data streams into a real‑time, 3D command and control environment.

Engineers in the Connected Warfare (CW) Division collaborate across disciplines to build, deploy, and scale systems for tactical edge missions. Our ECC (Edge Compute and Communications) Tactical Network Engineers focus on integrating commercial communications technologies with legacy military radios. They prototype new solutions that solve operational challenges while ensuring seamless interoperability between Anduril and third‑party products.

• Integrate emerging networking capabilities, bringing new hardware and software into the Menace family of systems.
• Contribute to requirements decomposition across cross‑functional teams, defining success in ambiguous contexts.
• Design network topologies and configurations from complex design reference missions involving unmanned systems and forward‑deployed command and control.
• Implement and troubleshoot Layer‑1 through Layer‑4 networking solutions, meeting or exceeding industry‑standard security goals.
• Own end‑to‑end system performance, identifying and resolving networking seams and tradeoffs.
• Conduct trade‑off studies of various communications and networking solutions, including government‑provided technologies.
• Create tooling for benchmarking and analyzing network traffic.
• Analyze test network infrastructure, recommend, and implement improvements for reliability and throughput.
• Collaborate with software engineers to build modeling, simulation, and hardware‑in‑the‑loop lab environments.
• Analyze network packet data to detect anomalous behavior, security threats, and inefficiencies across tactical deployments.

• Active U.S. security clearance (secret or higher).
• 5+ years of hands‑on experience in tactical networking or related fields.
• Experience with quantitative and qualitative trade‑study criteria.
• Application of engineering standards to processes and requirements.
• 2–5 years of experience with tactical LOS and BLOS RF systems.
• 3+ years with ad‑hoc mesh networking, secure communication protocols (IPSec/MACSec), SDN, TCP/IP, DNS, and routing protocols.
• Experience with commercial SDWAN solutions.
• Collaboration across cross‑functional teams.
• Comfortable with ambiguity, evolving priorities, and challenging problems.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Experience with mesh‑networking radios and network modeling/simulation tools.
• Willingness to travel for test field events up to 40%.
• Proficiency with network traffic analysis tools and PCAP tools such as Wireshark and tcpdump.
• Proficiency in analyzing network protocols and packet structures in tactical environments.

• Expertise in ship‑to‑ship and ship‑to‑shore communications:
  Sat Com, VHF/UHF, LPI/LPD, anti‑jamming, MIMO, antenna theory.
• Expertise in cloud networking and cybersecurity.
• Experience with programming languages such as Python, C/C++, or Rust for analysis and simulation.
• Experience with electronic warfare technologies and spectrum management.
• Experience developing custom PCAP analysis tools or scripts for specialized network environments.

$146,000 - $190,000 USD

Anduril offers competitive health, recovery, and benefit packages at little to no cost to employees. Equity grants are included in most full‑time offers, and the company supports a high quality of life for all team members.

As set forth in Anduril Industries’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.