Tech Lead, Offensive Security

Hadrian is building autonomous factories to reindustrialize America. By combining AI, advanced software, robotics, and full-stack manufacturing, we help aerospace and defense companies build rockets, satellites, aircraft, ships, and other mission-critical systems up to 10x faster and at significantly lower cost.

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.

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  Build and run Hadrian’s offensive security function: red-team operations, penetration testing, and adversary emulation across software, robotics/OT, cloud, and physical devices.

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  Perform reverse engineering and vulnerability research on firmware, embedded controllers, and third-party components in our manufacturing environment.

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  Develop AI-driven offensive tooling to scale coverage, and assess the security of Hadrian’s own AI and autonomy systems.

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  Drive findings to remediation with engineering and the blue team, run purple-team exercises, and measure risk reduction over time.

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  Represent Hadrian’s security posture to customers, auditors, and DoD stakeholders.

• 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).

• 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.

To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen or national, lawful permanent resident, protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.

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