Senior Red Team Engineer, Discovery

Anduril • Costa Mesa, CA

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About The Position

As a Senior Red Team Engineer on the Discovery team at Anduril, you will act as the adversary to our own systems, identifying potential flaws and weaknesses before they reach the field. This role requires hands-on experience in designing, building, and analyzing engineering systems, translating this expertise into rigorous adversarial analysis. You will work cross-functionally with Systems Engineering, GNC, Software, Hardware, Mission Operations, and Test Engineering teams, independently reconstructing analyses, breaking models, and stress-testing trade studies. Given the diverse domains Anduril operates in (space, missiles, air, autonomy, sensors), you are expected to reason across all of them. Your analysis will be critical to mission success for ongoing, funded programs within Anduril’s Discovery Business Line, focusing on resilient, software-defined systems.

Requirements

• Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance
• Hands-on track record of both designing/building and analyzing real engineering systems — not analysis-only
• Demonstrated ability to find problems others miss: failure analysis, adversarial review, independent verification, or equivalent
• Proven track record of independently owning and executing deliverables with little to no management
• Proficiency with physics-math scripting (e.g., MATLAB, Simulink, Python + numpy/scipy)
• Strong engineering background in a relevant field (Aerospace, Dynamics & Controls, GNC, Systems, or similar)
• Outstanding communication skills, including visual presentation of complex data

Nice To Haves

• 8+ years in a relevant science/engineering field
• Hands-on design and analysis experience across multiple of: space systems, missiles / missile defense, air vehicles, GNC, sensors and sensor fusion, radar, EW.
• Formal red-team, T&E, IV&V, mission-assurance, or failure-analysis experience
• Comfort moving fluidly between domains and physics regimes within a single problem
• Exceptional proficiency with physics-math scripting of your choice
• Familiarity with domain analysis tools as relevant (e.g., STK/Astrogator, AFSIM)
• Experience with genetic algorithms, machine learning, AI, and reinforcement learning

Responsibilities

• Independently execute red-team designs, models, and analyses across the program — hunt failure modes, surface hidden assumptions, and pressure-test trade studies before decisions are locked in
• Contribute to the models and simulations needed to prove or break a claim, rather than taking it on faith — often developing the analysis tooling yourself
• Reconstruct and independently verify others' work; find the error everyone else missed
• Work shoulder-to-shoulder with Systems, GNC, Software, Hardware, Mission Ops, and Test teams, translating findings into clear, actionable guidance that measurably improves the design
• Bring hands-on systems-building experience to bear so problems are caught in analysis, not in flight
• Communicate complex results — including strong visual presentation of data — to engineers, leadership, and stakeholders

Benefits

• Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package.
• Top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including: comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed