SCADA​/ICS Effects Engineer Applied AI CNA Siemens Schneider ABB TI DSP , NY​/On Site

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.

• + 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. IC… domain knowledge and DSP or control systems experience are essential.

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