SCADA / ICS Effects Engineer

Zealot is deploying AI systems at the center of western cyber operations, backed by tier-1 US VCs and industry leaders. Our team includes alumni of Anthropic, xAI, and Anduril. Soon live with close U.S. allies abroad. APPLIED AI CNA SIEMENS SCHNEIDER ABB TI DSP Compensation 100K-195K + skin in the game equity Location New York, NY On Site Stage Early-stage startup backed by tier 1 investors. Small, growing team with exceptionally high ownership. + Build AI systems that understand industrial processes well enough to disrupt, degrade, or manipulate them at scale. + Develop the models and tooling that translate access into effects, turning a compromised PLC into altered physics. + Teach machines to reason about control loops, safety systems, and process dependencies so effects can be generated at scale, not hand-crafted one target at a time. + Work at the intersection of AI, control theory, and cyber capabilities to create something that has never existed before. + Deep understanding of how industrial control systems drive physical processes, and how to subvert them. + Experience with DSP architectures (TI C6000/C5000, ARM NEON, Qualcomm Hexagon) or similar. + Strong understanding of real-time control loops, PLC ladder logic, and safety instrumented systems. + Strong C/C++ and assembly skills for low-level systems work. Nice to Have+ Experience with telecommunications infrastructure (baseband, signal processing chains). + Familiarity with FPGA-based control systems and HDL reverse engineering. + Experience with power grid, water treatment, or manufacturing control systems. + Background in signal processing, control theory, or electrical engineering. + Experience building with LLMs and AI agents. + Prior work in government or military cyber capabilities operations. + Drawn to what happens after access. + Clearly interested in stepping away from purely manual research and moving toward the development of AI systems. + Building something massive matters more to you than comfort, titles, or predictability. + You want to be early at a company that will change an industry, and you're ready to do what that actually takes. Note to recruiting firms: This role is about effects, not access. The candidate should understand how to make compromised industrial systems do something: disrupt processes, manipulate outputs, bypass safety systems. ... Ready?