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We combine innovation, deep expertise, and leading technical capabilities to uncover vulnerabilities, protect vital systems, and strengthen operational resilience.\nPOSITION OVERVIEW\nPosition: Senior Space Red Team Operator\nJob Type: Full Time\nLocation: Remote or Hybrid with travel to customer and test locations as required\nClearance Requirement: Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance; active Secret or higher preferred\nWHAT YOU'LL DO\nSIXGEN is seeking a hands-on Senior Space Red Team Operator to lead authorized adversarial assessments of space systems and the infrastructure that supports them. You will evaluate attack paths across spacecraft, payload, ground, cloud, mission-network, and operator environments; develop safe and repeatable test methods; and translate technical findings into clear mission risk and practical engineering improvements. This role is suited to an operator who can move comfortably between Linux hosts, cloud services, embedded targets, and customer briefings while maintaining disciplined authorization and mission-safety boundaries.\nResponsibilities include:\nLead end-to-end red team assessments, penetration tests, and threat-informed adversary emulation against authorized space and mission systems.\nDevelop assessment plans, attack paths, test cases, and Rules of Engagement that define objectives, authorization boundaries, safety controls, prohibited actions, and stop-work criteria.\nAssess Linux-based systems, embedded devices, flight and payload software, ground-station services, mission networks, cloud environments, and supporting applications for exploitable weaknesses.\nResearch and validate vulnerabilities in firmware, operating systems, communications interfaces, authentication flows, APIs, containers, identity services, and other mission-relevant components.\nCreate or adapt operator tooling, exploits, proof-of-concept code, automation, and test harnesses to support repeatable assessment objectives.\nCoordinate closely with system owners, engineers, operators, range personnel, and defensive teams to execute testing without unacceptable impact to safety, availability, or mission operations.\nCorrelate technical access with realistic mission effects and help customers understand how weaknesses could affect command, telemetry, payload data, availability, or operational trust.\nDocument evidence, reproduction steps, attack chains, severity, and prioritized remediation recommendations in clear technical reports and executive briefings.\nSupport purple-team validation, detection engineering, remediation retesting, and after-action activities to confirm that identified attack paths have been reduced or closed.\nMentor operators, contribute to internal tradecraft and lab development, and support technical scoping, customer discussions, and proposal efforts when needed.\nWHAT YOU BRING\nRequired qualifications:\nSeven or more years of hands-on experience in red teaming, penetration testing, vulnerability research, exploit development, or closely related offensive security work; equivalent military, government, or industry experience will be considered.\nAdvanced Linux knowledge, including networking, permissions, services, process behavior, logging, troubleshooting, and security controls.\nHands-on embedded-systems knowledge, including firmware analysis, boot processes, hardware-software interfaces, common processor architectures, debugging, and at least some exposure to RTOS or embedded Linux environments.\nPractical cloud-security knowledge in at least one major platform such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, including identity and access management, networking, logging, storage, compute, and common misconfiguration paths.\nExperience assessing enterprise networks and applications, including TCP/IP, routing, VPNs, DNS, authentication protocols, web services, APIs, and segmented or hybrid environments.\nAbility to write and review code or automation in Python and shell scripting; working knowledge of C, C++, Go, or similar systems-oriented language is strongly valued.\nDemonstrated ability to work independently, manage technical ambiguity, preserve evidence, and communicate risk to both deeply technical and nontechnical audiences.\nCommitment to authorized testing, operational safety, professional ethics, and careful handling of sensitive customer information.\nAbility to travel periodically and support testing windows that may occur outside normal business hours.\nPreferred qualifications:\nExperience assessing satellites, spacecraft buses, payloads, ground stations, mission-control systems, or other aerospace and operational-technology environments.\nFamiliarity with spacecraft flight software, command and telemetry workflows, common space-data protocols, or platforms such as NASA core Flight System.\nExperience with firmware extraction and reverse engineering, JTAG or SWD, UART, SPI, I2C, CAN, bootloaders, device drivers, or hardware debugging tools.\nExperience with containers, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, cloud-native services, and identity attack paths across hybrid environments.\nFamiliarity with radio-frequency systems, software-defined radio, satellite communications, or testing within hardware-in-the-loop and cyber-range environments.\nActive U.S. Government security clearance and prior work supporting Department of War, Intelligence Community, civil-space, or commercial-space missions.\nRelevant certifications such as OSCP, OSEP, OSED, GXPN, GPEN, GREM, or comparable demonstrated technical expertise.\nCOMPENSATION AND BENEFITS\nSIXGEN offers competitive compensation based on the responsibilities of the role and the candidate's experience, qualifications, specialized expertise, and security-clearance status. The final compensation package will be discussed during the hiring process.\nSIXGEN offers benefits for full-time employees, including:\nEmployer-paid health insurance premiums, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, for employees and their families\nEmployer-paid short- and long-term disability insurance and basic life and AD&D insurance\n401(k) plan with a 4% employer contribution\nProfessional-development reimbursement options for training, certifications, and education\nFlexible and remote-work policies for most positions\nFlexible paid time off and holiday schedule\nFor more information, please contact Human Strategist Amy Maxwell at .\nOUR COMMITMENT\nSIXGEN is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, marital status, ancestry, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.\nWe are committed to fostering an inclusive culture that values diversity in our people and reflects the communities and customers we serve. 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