Anduril
Senior Offensive Security Engineer
$183K–$243K
Washington, District of Columbia, United States +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 8, 2026
- Location
- Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Costa Mesa, California, United States - Experience
- 5+ years across 2 or more domains, and 2+ years across 4 or more domains.
About the job
Conduct end-to-end offensive security engagements across Anduril’s technology, infrastructure, personnel, and physical environments; identify vulnerabilities and help engineering teams improve security.
What you'll do
- Assess the security of Anduril-built technologies, personnel, and third-party solutions; advise teams on attack vectors and remediation.
- Build and maintain capabilities for red-team projects, and conduct security research to develop vulnerabilities, prototypes, tools, and infrastructure.
- Stay current on offensive security across technologies, from LLMs to RF.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of offensive security experience across 2 or more listed domains.
- 2+ years of offensive security experience across 4 or more listed domains.
- Experience taking offensive security engagements from scoping to delivery; rapid prototyping with LLMs/agents and discovering novel vulnerabilities.
- Public security research, technical walkthroughs, projects, or tools; strong professional communication; eligibility to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with anti-tamper and reverse-engineering mechanisms; experience assessing military technology.
- Leadership in offensive security engagements; security architecture expertise for robotic platforms; nation-state-level offensive security experience.
Pay
$183,000 — $243,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
LLMs, AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, RF, OT/ICS
AI focus
Prototype offensive security capabilities using LLMs/agents, including a potential autonomous red-team AI agent; assess AI-integrated systems.
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