Red Team Engineer, Discovery
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