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SCADA / ICSEffects 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, NSA, USCYBERCOM, Anduril, 8200, and the Mossad. Soon live with the U.S. Department of War and close U.S. allies abroad.

APPLIED AICNASIEMENSSCHNEIDERABBTI DSP
Doc // ZL.SUR.SCAD
Rev // 2026.04
Classification // OPEN

§What You'll Do

  • Build AI systems that understand industrial processes well enough to disrupt, degrade, or manipulate them autonomously.
  • 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.

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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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