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Classified Systems Engineer

Anduril IndustriesCosta Mesa🇺🇸United StatesPosted Oct 16, 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

As a Classified Systems Engineer at Anduril Industries, you'll play a crucial role in building and maintaining advanced High Performance Computing infrastructure, offering significant opportunities for skill development in a rapidly growing defense technology company. This hybrid role is ideal for a mid-senior level engineer eager to contribute to cutting-edge AI and autonomy development within a mission-driven team. You will be instrumental in shaping the future of military systems, so we encourage you to apply and grow your career with us.

Quick Overview

Seniority
Mid Senior
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
Costa Mesa, United States
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Job Description

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 ROLE

Anduril is seeking a Classified Systems Engineer with a focus on High Performance Computing (HPC). You will work alongside senior engineers and Cybersecurity teams to build and maintain next-generation computational, networking, and storage capabilities across the enterprise.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

  • Build and maintain scalable, hybrid HPC architectures that span on-premise and cloud environments, working within established architectural patterns
  • Support day-to-day operations of existing HPC cluster systems to ensure systems are performant and available
  • Implement and test secure multi-tenant capabilities to support consolidation of resources
  • Evaluate and test new HPC technologies, both hardware and software, and present findings to senior engineers
  • Develop expertise in HPC systems and contribute technical recommendations to the team's classified HPC strategy
  • Support DevSecOps processes and help maintain Continuous Integration / Continuous Development (CI/CD) pipelines for automating Infrastructure and Policy as Code (IaC/PaC)
  • Work with business lines and classified IT to gather requirements and help develop solutions that meet their needs on time and on budget
  • Contribute to HPC requirements documentation and support vendor evaluation efforts, including reviewing proposals and drafting Statements of Work (SOW)
  • Create and maintain training materials and runbooks to help users leverage HPC capabilities and tools for Modeling & Simulation (M&S) activities

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • Knowledge of and experience with Linux Operating Systems (OS) such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Rocky Linux, Ubuntu, etc.
  • Experience with automation & scripting tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, Chef, etc.
  • Familiarity with HPC technologies such as parallel/distributed file systems (e.g., Lustre, GPFS, Pure, VAST)
  • Familiarity with HPC batch scheduling software (e.g., PBSPro, SLURM)
  • Eligible to obtain and maintain a US Top Secret Clearance with customer's approval

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • Exposure to container orchestration, such as Kubernetes (k8s), and associated container technologies (Podman, Docker, Shifter, AppTainer/Singularity, etc.)
  • Exposure to HPC network technologies such as RDMA over Converged Ethernet Version 2 (RoCEv2), InfiniBand, Slingshot, etc.
  • Experience with bare-metal systems provisioning using tools such as xCAT, Warewulf, Bright Cluster Manager, etc.
  • Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.
  • Familiarity with software development and debugging, especially in a parallel environment
  • Familiarity with MPI and OpenMP applications and the associated configuration of libraries and dependencies
  • Awareness of NIST SP 800-53 controls and their technical implementation to meet cybersecurity requirements
US Salary Range
$129,000—$171,000 USD

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including: 

Benefits

At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next. For more information, Explore Our Benefits.

Protecting Yourself from Recruitment Scams

Anduril is committed to maintaining the integrity of our Talent acquisition process and the security of our candidates. We've observed a rise in sophisticated phishing and fraudulent schemes where individuals impersonate Anduril representatives, luring job seekers with false interviews or job offers. These scammers often attempt to extract payment or sensitive personal information.

To ensure your safety and help you navigate your job search with confidence, please keep the following critical points in mind:

  • No Financial Requests: Anduril will never solicit payment or demand personal financial details (such as banking information, credit card numbers, or social security numbers) at any stage of our hiring process. Our legitimate recruitment is entirely free for candidates.

  • Please always verify communications:
    • Direct from Anduril: If you receive an email from one of our recruiters, it will only come from an @anduril.com address.
    • Via Agency Partner: If contacted by a recruiting agency for an Anduril role, their email will clearly identify their agency. If you suspect any suspicious activity, please verify the agency's authenticity by reaching out to contact@anduril.com. 

  • Exercise Caution with Unsolicited Outreach: If you receive any communication that appears suspicious, contains grammatical errors, or makes unusual requests, do not engage. Always confirm the sender's email domain is @anduril.com before providing any personal information or clicking on links.

  • What to Do If You Suspect Fraud: Should you encounter any questionable or fraudulent outreach claiming to be from Anduril, please report it immediately to contact@anduril.com. Your proactive caution is invaluable in protecting your personal information and upholding the security and trustworthiness of our recruitment efforts.

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To view Anduril's candidate data privacy policy, please visit https://anduril.com/applicant-privacy-notice/. 

By submitting your application, you consent to Anduril Industries using a third-party service provider to conduct pre-employment risk, integrity, and due diligence screening and assessing potential risks as part of your application process. This third-party service provider provides risk-intelligence services that may include analysis of sanctions and watchlists, adverse media, public-record information, and other lawful open-source or commercial data sources. This third-party service provider does not act as a consumer reporting agency. Use of this provider helps to ensure compliance with applicable laws and protect technology, intellectual property, and organizational security.

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