Tactical Networking Engineer

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.ABOUT THE TEAMThe Air Defense team builds robots that find other robots and knock them out of the sky. At a time when air superiority can no longer be taken for granted, the Air Defense Team provides mission critical capabilities to warfighters. From detection to tracking, identification, deterrence, and defeat, our family of networked sensors and effectors enables our customers to rapidly close the kill chain against a broad range of Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) threats. Working across product, engineering, sales, logistics, operations, and mission success, the Air Defense team develops, tests, deploys, and sustains the Anduril Air Defense Family of Systems (FoS) in challenging operational environments worldwide.WHAT YOU'LL DOWe are hiring a Tactical Networking Engineer to lead the design and implementation of a networking stack to enable command and control (C2) and collaborative autonomy of distributed unmanned systems.You will:Design, implement, deploy, and troubleshoot networking solutions focused on Layer-1 (Physical), Layer-2 (Data), Layer-3 (Network), and Layer-4 (Transport) of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) reference modelPerform trade-off studies of different comms and networking solutions including government provided technologiesDesign network laydowns and configurations decomposed from complex design reference missions (DRMs) involving large scale unmanned systems and forward-deployed C2 systems.Build robust tooling for benchmarking and analyzing network trafficAnalyze test network infrastructure, develop recommendations, and implement improvements for network reliability and throughput for edge networkCollaborate extensively with software engineers to build a representative modeling and simulation environment including hardware-in-the-loop lab infrastructureREQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:Expertise in tactical LOS and BLOS RF systems especially in maritime environment for ship-to-ship and ship-to-shore commsSatComVHF + UHFLPI/LPD and anti-jammingMIMOAntenna theoryExperience with networking protocols and technologies, including:Ad-hoc mesh networkingSecure communication protocols - IPSec / MACSecSoftware-Defined Networking / SD-WANsInternet protocols - TCP/IP, DNS, etc.Routing protocols (small and large scale - e.g. mesh routing as well as internet-scale routing across autonomous systems)Must be willing to travel for test field events up to 25%Eligible to obtain and hold a DoD security clearancePREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:Active clearance statusExperience with existing middlewares (e.g., DDS, ROS, MQTT)Experience with network modeling and simulation tools and frameworksExperience with electronic warfare (EW) technologiesExperience with unmanned aerial or surface systemsUS Salary Range$112,000—$149,000 USDThe salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. 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