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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Tech Lead overseeing Offensive Security - **Company:** Hadrian Automation - **Location:** Bellevue, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Software System Penetration Testing, C++ (Programming Language), Firmware, Joint Test Action (IEEE Standards), Python (Programming Language), Red Team (Cyber Security), Reverse Engineering, Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter, Multi-Agent Systems, Stripe, IDA Pro, Industrial Software, Blue Team (Cyber Security) - **Published:** September 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/tech-lead-offensive-security-hadrian-automation-8959480 ## 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). What Will Set You Apart * Hardware, embedded, or OT/ICS security experience (JTAG/UART, firmware extraction, industrial protocols). * Recognized external presence - talks at DEF CON, Black Hat, or Recon, and published research or CVEs. * Experience attacking or securing AI and agentic systems. * Background in aerospace, defense, robotics, or manufacturing. * Experience standing up a red team or offensive program from zero. ## 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. ## Related Videos - [Navigating Growth, Scaling Challenges, and Office Expansions with David Singleton, CTO at Stripe](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100362-navigating-growth-scaling-challenges-and-office-expansions-with-david-singleton-cto-at-stripe) - [Playing Pong on a shoulder press machine](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100140-playing-pong-on-a-shoulder-press-machine) - [Security Pitfalls for Software Engineers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/726-security-pitfalls-for-software-engineers) - [Agent Smith Gets Hardware: Autonomous IoT Hacking From Debug Port to Cloud API](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100258-agent-smith-gets-hardware-autonomous-iot-hacking-from-debug-port-to-cloud-api) - [Build Your Own Subscription-based Course Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/321-build-your-own-subscription-based-course-platform) - [The Developer Workstation Blind Spot: Why Your Security Stack Can't See What Matters Most](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100254-the-developer-workstation-blind-spot-why-your-security-stack-can-t-see-what-matters-most) ## Related Articles - [Dev Digest 121 - AI goes offline](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/456-dev-digest-121-ai-goes-offline) - [9 Ways to Make Money Hacking](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/333-9-ways-to-make-money-hacking) - [Dev Digest 134 - Where pixels sing?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/477-dev-digest-134-where-pixels-sing) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [Dev Digest 138 - Are you secure about this?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/486-dev-digest-138-are-you-secure-about-this) - [Dev Digest 137 - AI'm not sure about this](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/485-dev-digest-137-ai-m-not-sure-about-this)