Everyone else here builds the system. This role exists to prove it's wrong.
You'd be measured on how much damage you do to our own work.
Why this work
India has been caught by surprise before. Not because the warning didn't exist, but because it existed somewhere in the system and nobody put it together in time. People died because of that gap. We're closing it.
We're building the intelligence system that helps India see the next attack coming before it happens, and helps it win the next war before the first shot is fired. Not with better sensors; India already collects enough. With the ability to actually use what it collects, at the speed the threat moves.
This doesn't get built by a foreign company, and it doesn't get built for a demo. It gets built by people who decided this mattered enough to build it here, for real, before it's needed. If we do this right, the payoff is a warning that gets acted on in time, and a war that's already won in preparation before it's fought at all.
What that means for this role




The characteristic failure of an agentic reasoning system is output that's fluent, well-cited, internally coherent, and wrong. It's hardest to catch exactly where it matters most, and it gets more persuasive as the models improve. In consumer software that's a bad quarter. Here it lands on people who had no say in it.
The institutions we work with are deeply sceptical of automated judgment, and they're right to be. The only real answer is a dedicated adversarial function, independent of the teams it evaluates. A critic sharing context with its target inherits the target's blind spots. It's the highest-value thing we'll build and the easiest to quietly cut. We're putting it in the job post so you can hold us to it.
If you think AI in defence should be built carefully or not at all, this is the role that makes carefully possible, and keeps it honest.
A note on the obvious pitch
The tempting framing is self-play: agents run ten thousand scenarios overnight and

📌 AI Research Engineer: Adversarial Systems (Bengaluru)
🏢 Auric AI Labs
📍 Bengaluru