Senior Data Protection Engineer, Classified Systems

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 builds and operates the systems that protect our most sensitive work. We're a small, high-trust group with an outsized mandate — and this role is the first of its kind on the team, giving you the latitude to define data protection for Classified Systems from the ground up. ABOUT THE JOB As a Senior Data Protection Engineer on our Classified Systems team, you'll own how sensitive data is protected across some of the most secure environments in the country. This is an architecture-and-practice-building role: you'll dive deep into our environment, design the data protection architecture for Classified Systems, and work side by side with stakeholders and engineers to execute it — implementing the policies, controls, and processes that keep classified data handled correctly end to end. This role is mission critical and broad in scope. You'll define how data protection and handling works as a practice — establishing the logical and physical controls, the processes, and the day-to-day standards that the rest of the organization relies on. Along the way you'll build the end-to-end solution, including the mitigations and automation that reduce risk and handle data spillages when they occur. If you want work that genuinely matters, gives you a blank canvas to architect from, and the mandate to see it through to execution, this is it. WHAT YOU’LL DO Start by diving into our Classified Systems environment — mapping how sensitive data is created, stored, moved, and accessed today, and identifying where protection is needed most. Design the data protection architecture for Classified Systems — the controls, data flows, and safeguards that protect sensitive information end to end — and partner with stakeholders and engineers across our teams to execute it. Define the policies, processes, and standards for data protection and handling — both logical (access controls, classification, monitoring) and physical (storage, transport, and destruction of media) — and build the practice that operationalizes them. Deliver an end-to-end solution complete with mitigation — including the automation and incident response needed to handle data spillages and other data-protection events when they arise. Over time, you'll have the mandate to define how data protection at this scale should work, not just keep pace with it. In this role, you will: Assess the Classified Systems environment and design a data protection architecture that secures sensitive data across its full lifecycle. Partner with stakeholders and engineers across our teams to execute the architecture and implement controls and policies — both logical (access, classification, monitoring) and physical (storage, transport, destruction of media). Define the processes and standards for data protection and handling and develop the practice that operationalizes them across the organization. Deliver an end-to-end solution complete with mitigation — including incident response and automation to handle data spillages and sensitive removal requests — while maintaining compliance obligations across security, legal, and customer-facing teams. REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS Active Top Secret/SCI security clearance (required; candidates must currently hold this clearance). 7+ years o