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Staff Red Team Engineer, Discovery

Costa Mesa, CA (OC-00)💼 Full-time💰 $220,000–$220,000🗓 2026-07-14 → 2026-07-31

Core

Adversarial analysis of defense systems to find failure modes, unmodeled risks, and design weaknesses before fielding.

Role type

Staff Red Team Engineer (Discovery)

Builds

Resilient, software-defined systems for space, missiles, air, and autonomy domains.

Domain

Defense technology, aerospace, GNC, and cyber.

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

adversarial analysis, failure mode identification, independent verification, systems engineering, physics-math scripting, cross-domain reasoning, technical communication

Preferred skills

red-team experience, mission assurance, genetic algorithms, machine learning, reinforcement learning, domain analysis tools (STK/Astrogator, AFSIM)

Technologies

MATLAB, Simulink, Python, numpy, scipy, STK, Astrogator, AFSIM

Responsibilities

Red-team designs and models to hunt failure modes and surface hidden assumptions; Build simulation models to prove or break claims; Reconstruct and independently verify others' work; Collaborate with Systems, GNC, and Hardware teams to translate findings into actionable guidance; Communicate complex results with visual data presentation.

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with strategic impact

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