Tech Lead, Offensive Security

The role

You will build and lead the offensive security capability from the ground up. This involves red-team operations, penetration testing, and adversary emulation across software, robotics, cloud, and physical devices.

What you will do

• Build and run Hadrian's offensive security function
• Perform red-team operations, penetration testing, and adversary emulation
• Perform reverse engineering and vulnerability research on firmware, embedded controllers, and third-party components
• Develop AI-driven offensive tooling
• Assess the security of Hadrian's AI and autonomy systems
• Drive findings to remediation with engineering and the blue team
• Run purple-team exercises
• Measure risk reduction over time
• Represent Hadrian's security posture to customers, auditors, and DoD stakeholders

Required qualifications

• Deep, hands-on red-team and penetration-testing experience at a top-tier engineering organization
• Strong reverse engineering skills (Ghidra, IDA Pro, or Binary Ninja)
• Track record of finding and weaponizing real vulnerabilities
• Proficiency building offensive tooling in Python, Go, or C/C++
• Ability to leverage AI to accelerate offensive work
• Ability to operate fully autonomously

Nice to have

• Hardware, embedded, or OT/ICS security experience (JTAG/UART, firmware extraction, industrial protocols)
• Recognized external presence such as talks at DEF CON, Black Hat, or Recon
• 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

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans
• 401k
• Relocation support may be provided for certain situations
• Flexible vacation policy
• Equity

Before you apply

• Must be a U.S. person under ITAR (U.S. citizen or national, lawful permanent resident, protected individual, or eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State)

About the company

Hadrian is building autonomous factories to reindustrialize America by combining AI, advanced software, robotics, and full-stack manufacturing. They help aerospace and defense companies build mission-critical systems faster and at lower cost.