§What You'll Do
- 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.
§Requirements
- 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.
§You Are
- 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.
For Recruiters
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. ICS/SCADA domain knowledge and DSP or control systems experience are essential.
Ready?
Apply for SCADA / ICS Effects Engineer
Email team@zealotlabs.com with a resume and a paragraph on what you want to build with us.
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