Who We Are:
Kudu Dynamics is Leidos Owned Company, forged out of a decade of experience in computer network operations and staffed with talent who have built, overseen, and enhanced capabilities throughout the entire USG arsenal. Our team of hackers and engineers have experience spanning centuries of research, development, and operations missions - across desktop, mobile, IoT, and embedded platforms. Kudu Dynamics, a Leidos company is uniquely qualified to anticipate tomorrow’s threats and build the next generation of capabilities.
Full Job Description:
We are looking for a Security Engineer to own the security posture of the environments where we build, test, and deliver advanced AI-cyber capabilities. You will be embedded with software engineers, reverse engineers, and vulnerability researchers, hardening the infrastructure, supply chains and pipelines on while guiding their secure development.
The work includes guiding and reviewing build integrity and supply chain review to threat modeling our own tooling. If you have ever looked at a supply chain & development environment and immediately started listing the ways you would secure it, this is the job. You will be the person the team trusts to tell them when something is a real risk and when it is just noise
As an AI Security Integration Engineer on our team, you will bridge the gap between traditional security infrastructure and modern programmatic defense. You will guide the secure development and evolution of software vulnerability tooling. Your primary focus will be working with the development team to maintainmaintaining the tool security posture utilizing continuous ATO. review workflows and pipelines by leveraging Python, assessing robust API integrations, maintained exploring AI/LLM orchestration to rapidly scale threat detection and response capabilities. Support ATO and continuous vuln management.
15+ years Hands-on experience securing and hardening Linux systems at the OS and network layer
Expertise in at least one scripting language (Python preferred)
Working knowledge of network protocols, cryptographic fundamentals, and key management
Experience with infrastructure-as-code and containerization (Ansible/Terraform, Docker/Kubernetes)
Experience administering or securing a CI/CD system (GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar)
Experience working in accredited/classified environments, including cross-domain solutions
Offensive security background — penetration testing, red team, or serious CTF experience
Detection engineering or SIEM experience
Experience with embedded, real-time, or otherwise constrained platforms
Exposure to reverse engineering or vulnerability research
Relevant certifications (CISSP, OSCP, GCIH) — useful, not required
Non-human/agent identity and secrets management — short-lived credentials, scoping, and audit for autonomous actors, which is a genuinely different problem than human IAM.
Sandboxing and egress control for code-executing agents.
Familiarity with NIST AI RMF and the fact that continuous-ATO control automation now has to cover AI system controls, not just traditional ones.
Using LLMs to accelerate the compliance grind control narrative drafting, evidence collection, POA&M triage.
If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares.
August 24, 2026
For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.
Pay Range $131,300.00 - $237,350.00
The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.
Leidos is a Fortune 500® innovation company rapidly addressing the world’s most vexing challenges in national security and health. The company's global workforce of 48,000 collaborates to create smarter technology solutions for customers in heavily regulated industries. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $15.4 billion for the fiscal year ended December 29, 2023.
Leidos was cited for the meaningful work employees perform that is challenging, impactful, and aligned with our customers’ missions as reasons professionals want to work and stay at our company. Leidos has also been named to lists including Forbes’ Best Employers for Diversity, Forbes’ America’s Best Employers for Women, Military Times Best for Vets Employers, and Ethisphere Institute’s World's Most Ethical Companies®.
Employees enjoy career enrichment opportunities available through mobility and development and experience rewarding relationships with supportive supervisors and talented colleagues and customers. Employees appreciate our flexible work environment, allowing for and encouraging a true work-life balance. Our professionals are also excited about our Employee Resource Groups, like the Collaborative Outreach with Remote and Embedded Employees (CORE), which strives to create an environment where every employee, regardless of location, feels fully engaged as a valued employee of Leidos.
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