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Senior Vulnerability Engineer

Anduril · Boston, Massachusetts, United States; Costa Mesa, California, United States; Washington, District of Columbia, United... · On-site

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About Anduril

Anduril Industries builds advanced autonomous systems and defense technology to protect US and allied forces. Creating the future of national security through AI, robotics, and cutting-edge engineering. Backed by General Catalyst, Lightspeed and a16z.

About the role

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:

What they're looking for

  • Strong experience discovering vulnerabilities in firmware, applications, network services, embedded Linux systems, drivers, protocols, IoT devices, or hardware-adjacent systems
  • Proficiency with one or more programming languages used for vulnerability research and tooling, such as Python, C, C++, Rust, or Go
  • Experience with fuzzing, harness development, crash triage, exploitability analysis, source-code review, binary analysis, or dynamic instrumentation
  • Ability to reason about memory corruption, logic flaws, authentication and authorization failures, unsafe parsing, concurrency issues, insecure update flows, and trust-boundary failures
  • Hands-on familiarity with Linux, embedded systems, networking, debugging, and common security research tooling
  • Ability to communicate vulnerability impact, reproduction steps, and mitigation options clearly to both research and engineering audiences
More about this role

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.

Anduril Cyber is hiring a Vulnerability Engineer to discover novel vulnerabilities in hardware and software systems and turn that research into rigorous technical artifacts. The role is focused on original vulnerability discovery across embedded systems, firmware, applications, protocols, hardware/software boundaries, and system integrations.

  • Find novel vulnerabilities in software, firmware, embedded systems, protocols, update paths, device interfaces, and...

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AFS : Discovery Engineering : Cyber

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