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# Tech Lead, Offensive Security

- **Company:** Hadrian Automation
- **Location:** Los Angeles, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Software System Penetration Testing, C++ (Programming Language), Firmware, Python (Programming Language), Reverse Engineering, Stripe, IDA Pro, Industrial Software, Blue Team (Cyber Security)
- **Published:** August 6, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=3d17c341cd262d52

## About the Role

* Deep, hands-on red-team and penetration-testing experience at a top-tier engineering organization (e.g., Block, Stripe, Anthropic, Google, AWS).
 * Strong reverse engineering skills (Ghidra, IDA Pro, or Binary Ninja) and a track record of finding and weaponizing real vulnerabilities.
 * Proficiency building offensive tooling in Python, Go, or C/C++ and leveraging AI to accelerate offensive work.
 * Ability to operate fully autonomously - set strategy and own outcomes without a team beneath you at the start.
 * Must be a U.S. person under ITAR (see requirements below).

## Description

As our Tech Lead overseeing Offensive Security, you will build and lead Hadrian's offensive security capability from the ground up. Hadrian's software-defined, ITAR-controlled factories are a high-value target, and your job is to find what an adversary would find first - across our manufacturing software, robotics and OT, cloud, corporate systems, physical devices, and AI. This is a hands-on principal role for someone who has done elite red-team work and wants to own an entire offensive function.

What You'll Do

 * Build and run Hadrian's offensive security function: red-team operations, penetration testing, and adversary emulation across software, robotics/OT, cloud, and physical devices.
 * Perform reverse engineering and vulnerability research on firmware, embedded controllers, and third-party components in our manufacturing environment.
 * Develop AI-driven offensive tooling to scale coverage, and assess the security of Hadrian's own AI and autonomy systems.
 * Drive findings to remediation with engineering and the blue team, run purple-team exercises, and measure risk reduction over time.
 * Represent Hadrian's security posture to customers, auditors, and DoD stakeholders.


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