Lead Security Engineer, GRC

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 TEAM

Anduril s Security Engineering team is looking for a Governance Risk and Compliance Engineering Lead to build the engineering core of our GRC program the pipeline and tooling that turn Anduril s systems into continuous defensible evidence of compliance replacing the manual scramble that happens at audit time. You ll set technical direction for the function and grow the team building it.

WHAT YOU LL DO

Build the pipeline that collects evidence from Anduril s systems and maps it to a normalized control model Construct reusable collectors and schemas as reference architectures so each new control is assembly not reinvention Stand up the system of record for controls mappings and evidence and drive the build-vs-buy analysis Surface control drift and route findings to system owners with clear remediation and risk-acceptance paths Translate frameworks (CMMC NIST 800-171 FedRAMP/IL5) into automatable technical checks and pass/fail signals Set technical direction and mentor a growing engineering team

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

6+ years in security engineering GRC or a related role including hands-on building of automation or data pipelines programming ability in a general-purpose language (Go Python Rust etc.) Hands-on experience operationalizing compliance frameworks (CMMC NIST 800-171 800-53 FedRAMP SOC 2) Experience designing data collection and integration across cloud and SaaS systems (APIs log/event pipelines data lakes) Experience with infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform AWS CDK) in a production capacity Track record of setting technical direction and mentoring engineers Ability to work autonomously take ownership of ambiguous problems and drive alignment across partner teams Eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret clearance

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Experience with continuous control monitoring or GRC platforms (Vanta Drata Hyperproof OneTrust) or building bespoke equivalents Experience with security data lakes log aggregation or building data marts for querying Familiarity with STIG/ConMon scanning CSPM or Kubernetes hardening Experience in fast-paced high-growth defense technology environments
US Salary Range $166,000 $253,000 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:false:false:0:0:240

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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 a Explore Our Benefits.

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