Tactical Networking Engineer
Anduril Industries
Irvine, CA3h agovia LinkedIn
This job at a glance
- Who can apply
- New grads, no experience needed
- Must know
- NetworkingTroubleshooting
- Work
- On-site in Irvine
- Pay
- Not stated by the employer.
- Skill demand
- Networking83%Troubleshooting69%of 99 similar entry-level jobs posted in the US this week
- Listed
- Oct 28, 2026 · still open
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About The Role
Anduril Industries is 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.
Key Responsibilities
- 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
Requirements & Tech Stack
- 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
Preferred Qualifications
- 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
Note: The provided text does not specify a required number of years of experience for this role.