SCADA / ICS Effects Engineer

Zealot Labs, Inc.; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity stake

Job summary

Zealot Labs, Inc. is seeking engineers to build AI-driven systems that understand industrial processes and can disrupt, degrade, or manipulate them at scale. You will translate access into effects through advanced AI models and tooling for real-time control.

You will work at the frontier of AI, control theory, and cyber capabilities, leveraging DSP and low-level programming to challenging industrial environments.

Qualifications

• Strong C/C++ and assembly skills for low-level systems work.
• Deep understanding of real-time control loops and safety systems.
• Experience with DSP architectures and PLC logic is a plus.
• Background in control theory or electrical engineering helpful.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

C/C++

Assembly

DSP architectures

Real-time control loops

PLC ladder logic

Safety Instrumented Systems

Signal processing

Control theory

Electrical engineering

AI/LLM integration

Cyber capabilities

Tools

DSP architectures

Job description

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. ...

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