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Red Team Engineer, Discovery

Costa Mesa, CA (OC-00)💼 Full-time💰 $166,000–$166,000🗓 2026-08-31 → 2026-09-27

Core

Adversary to own systems, finding wrong assumptions, unmodeled failure modes, and design weaknesses before fielding to change decisions.

Role type

Senior IC Red Team Engineer (Systems Engineering)

Builds

Resilient, software-defined systems across space, missiles, air, autonomy, and sensors domains

Domain

Defense / Aerospace / GNC / Systems Engineering

Deliverable

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

Required skills

Hands-on systems design and building, failure analysis, adversarial review, independent verification, physics-math scripting (MATLAB, Simulink, Python), engineering background in Aerospace/GNC/Systems

Preferred skills

Space systems, missile defense, GNC, sensors/sensor fusion, radar, EW, formal red-team/IV&V experience, genetic algorithms, machine learning, AI, reinforcement learning, domain analysis tools (STK/Astrogator, AFSIM)

Technologies

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

Responsibilities

Execute red-team designs and analyses to hunt failure modes and pressure-test trade studies, develop analysis tooling to prove or break claims, independently verify others' work, collaborate with Systems/GNC/Software/Hardware teams to translate findings into actionable guidance, communicate complex results with visual data presentation

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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