Counterintelligence Analyst Lead

About the role

The Counterintelligence (CI) and Security Investigations Team safeguards Anduril Industries' workforce and supply chain by proactively identifying risk, mitigating threats, and delivering actionable investigative insights. The team helps ensure the security environment remains vigilant and resilient, enabling Anduril to innovate and operate confidently in a dynamic global environment.

About the position

Anduril is seeking a professional to support the CI team who is interested in a unique opportunity to help strategize, socialize, and implement a CI program. The role requires significant critical thinking, creativity, complex problem-solving, and interpersonal skills, as well as the ability to work across a rapidly growing, global, dynamic organization to identify and mitigate threats.

What you’ll do

• Support the development and execution of a CI analysis capability tailored to the defense industry's unique threats and requirements.
• Cook up and execute analytic efforts and workstreams that integrate across key business processes and stakeholders to proactively identify potential nation state threats against the company's assets, personnel, technologies, and supply chain to enable rapid mitigation and informed decision-making.
• Coordinate with federal agencies, including the Department of Defense (DoD), Intelligence Community (IC), and Federal Law Enforcement, to access relevant threat information and stay current on evolving adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures.
• Establish and leverage collaborative partnerships across internal stakeholders to identify data necessary to support robust research and analysis of threats from nation state adversaries and insiders.
• Review and analyze data from various sources to identify anomalous behaviors and other indicators.
• Produce tailored and strategic analytic products to support a variety of customers, including senior leadership.
• Develop and implement analytic methodologies to assess counterintelligence and insider threats.
• Establish and maintain relationships with industry counterparts to share analytic best practices and threat intelligence.
• Provide analytic support to investigations of suspected CI and Insider Threat incidents.
• Support the development of internal standard operating procedures, processes, and frameworks for CI analysis as well as produce key metrics to deliver to leadership on a recurring basis.
• Prepare detailed reports and give presentations on threat findings, case studies, risk assessments, and recommended actions for multiple audiences, including senior leadership.
• Routinely represent the team in internal meetings or working groups with product teams, supply chain teams, legal, and other Security elements.
• Continuously evaluate global threat intelligence and trends that have the potential to impact Anduril.
• Support the development of CI training and awareness materials and initiatives and present tailored briefings to internal audiences.
• Travel as needed to support analytic reviews at various Anduril site locations or external events.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Security or Intelligence Studies, Political Science, Criminal Justice, or a related field.
• 8 years of relevant work experience in CI investigations or analysis, intelligence operations or analysis, assessing complex threats from nation state actors and insider threats.
• Experience leveraging critical thinking skills to creatively solve complex problems and produce analysis and recommendations in a fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrated ability leveraging multiple data sets and tools to support complex research and analysis as well as developing risk assessments and risk mitigation recommendations.
• Demonstrated success executing CI awareness messaging to a wide audience, both written and verbally.
• Experience providing analysis to support CI and/or insider threat investigations.
• Demonstrated understanding of the intelligence threats facing the industry.
• Excellent critical thinking, collaboration, and interpersonal skills.
• Possess an active Top Secret security clearance.

Prioritized qualifications

• Familiarity with relevant laws, regulations, and standards governing defense industry security.
• Experience conducting analysis of nation state-related threats for government and private industry.
• Formal analytic training and/or certifications.
• Experience designing and executing CI/Security training.
• Prior experience partnering with legal, HR, and InfoSec teams to bring about positive outcomes and facilitate robust processes.

Pay

US Salary Range: $129,000 - $171,000 USD

Benefits

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, explore our benefits.

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