Anduril Industries
SCADA Engineer
About this role
Anduril Industries seeks a Controls System Engineer to maintain and operate mission-critical factory infrastructure, including SCADA systems, OT networks, and PLC platforms. This role involves managing on-premise control systems, developing Ignition applications, and ensuring manufacturing uptime in a fast-paced defense manufacturing environment.
What you'll do
- Operate and maintain on-premise factory infrastructure and control systems supporting production
- Develop and manage Ignition Perspective SCADA applications including views, tags, alarms, and gateway topology
- Maintain OT server infrastructure (Ignition gateways, historians, MQTT brokers) with backup and change-control procedures
- Operate OT networking stack (MQTT, OPC UA, TCP/IP) and diagnose protocol and network issues using packet analysis
- Troubleshoot and debug PLC code on Allen-Bradley and Siemens platforms for high-volume manufacturing
- Serve as escalation point for resolving complex infrastructure issues and maintaining factory uptime
What they're looking for
- Ignition SCADA development and gateway modules
- OT network stack (MQTT, OPC UA, TCP/IP, industrial Ethernet, VLANs)
- PLC programming (Allen-Bradley, Siemens)
- Packet-level network analysis and troubleshooting
- OT cybersecurity and network segmentation
- PowerShell, Python, or Bash scripting
- On-premise infrastructure management (servers, storage, virtualization)
- Industry standards (ISA/IEC 62443, NIST 800-82, PERA)
Benefits
- Competitive salary range: $146,000–$194,000 USD
- Equity grants included in compensation package
- Top-tier benefits for full-time employees
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Anduril Industries
Anduril Industries builds autonomous defense systems including underwater vehicles, unmanned aircraft, and electronic warfare platforms for the Department of Defense. The company is hiring across mechanical engineering, mission operations, software development, technical leadership, and advanced manufacturing roles to support the design, deployment, and production of these mission-critical systems.
- Website
- anduril.com
Likely interview questions
- Walk us through your experience with Ignition SCADA development. What gateway modules have you implemented, and how did you approach designing tag architecture and alarm pipelines for high-volume manufacturing?
- Describe a time you diagnosed and resolved a complex OT network issue. What tools did you use for packet-level analysis, and how did you troubleshoot protocol, timing, or VLAN segmentation problems?