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Senior Red Team Engineer, Discovery

Costa Mesa, CA (OC-00)💼 Full-time💰 $191,000–$191,000🗓 2026-08-31 → 2026-09-26

Core

Adversary role finding design weaknesses and unmodeled failure modes in defense systems before fielding.

Role type

Senior Red Team Engineer (Discovery)

Builds

Resilient, software-defined systems across 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

Required skills

physics-math scripting, failure analysis, adversarial review, independent verification, systems design, GNC, aerospace engineering

Preferred skills

space systems, missile defense, sensor fusion, genetic algorithms, machine learning, reinforcement learning, domain analysis tools

Technologies

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

Responsibilities

Execute red-team designs and analyses to hunt failure modes, develop analysis tooling to prove or break claims, independently verify others' work, translate findings into actionable design guidance, present complex data visually

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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