Tactical Networking Engineer
Job Location:
Irvine, CA - USA
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Job Summary
ABOUT THE TEAM
The 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 YOULL DO
We 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 model
- Perform trade-off studies of different comms and networking solutions including government provided technologies
- Design 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 traffic
- Analyze test network infrastructure develop recommendations and implement improvements for network reliability and throughput for edge network
- Collaborate extensively with software engineers to build a representative modeling and simulation environment including hardware-in-the-loop lab infrastructure
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Expertise in tactical LOS and BLOS RF systems especially in maritime environment for ship-to-ship and ship-to-shore comms
- SatCom
- VHF UHF
- LPI/LPD and anti-jamming
- MIMO
- Antenna theory
- Experience with networking protocols and technologies including:
- Ad-hoc mesh networking
- Secure communication protocols - IPSec / MACSec
- Software-Defined Networking / SD-WANs
- Internet 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 clearance
- Active clearance status
- Experience with existing middlewares (e.g. DDS ROS MQTT)
- Experience with network modeling and simulation tools and frameworks
- Experience with electronic warfare (EW) technologies
- Experience with unmanned aerial or surface systems
US Salary Range
$112000 - $149000 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 Andurils total compensation package. Additionally Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees including:
At Anduril we invest in our people. Our comprehensive competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures youre supported in health recovery and whatever comes next.For more information Explore Our Benefits.
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