Red Team Engineer, Product Security

Responsibilities

• Plan and run adversary emulation against spacecraft, flight software, ground systems, and development pipelines using SPARTA and MITRE ATT&CK.
• Identify attack paths that cross system boundaries, including paths from ground-system compromise to spacecraft control.
• Scope and lead third-party security assessments and integrate external findings with internal results.
• Build fuzzing, automated testing, and agent-driven test-generation capabilities for continuous release testing.
• Reverse engineer firmware and protocols, analyze embedded hardware interfaces, and review cryptography implementations.
• Participate in design reviews to identify how proposed systems could be attacked before implementation.
• Co-chair product security incident response, triage vulnerabilities, coordinate fixes, and help engineers address root causes.

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship is required.
• 3–10 years of hands-on offensive security experience in penetration testing, red teaming, exploit development, or vulnerability research.
• Demonstrated experience building custom tools, harnesses, or automation.
• Experience combining multiple weaknesses into realistic attack paths.
• Strong fundamentals in operating systems, networking, and applied cryptography, with the ability to read and debug unfamiliar code.
• Ability to own technical projects from start to finish with little direction.
• Clear communication skills for working with engineers and explaining risk to leadership.
• Preferred qualifications include embedded or cyber-physical systems experience, fuzzing harness development, RTOS or embedded Linux experience, hardware-interface experience, AI-assisted security testing, satellite command-link or ground-station experience, third-party assessment leadership, public security research, or space security training.
• Eligibility for a U.S. security clearance is preferred; an active clearance is not required.

Benefits

• Equity and eligibility for long-term stock-option incentives.
• Company-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents, plus $100,000 of life insurance at no cost.
• 15 days of vacation initially, growing to 20 or more days annually, plus 10 paid holidays.
• 401(k) plan with matching contributions.
• Eight weeks of paid parental leave and childcare reimbursement of up to $350 per day for work-related travel.
• Daily catered lunch, unlimited snacks, office socials, recreational activities, and family gatherings.
• Tools for a personalized desk setup.
• In-person work at the Playa Vista office with flexibility to integrate work and life.