The laboratory is only as good as the surface area it can faithfully mirror. We invest deeply in a small number of domains where systems-level engineering decisions create disproportionate value — and disproportionate risk.
Perception stacks, deterministic planners, sensor-fusion pipelines, and safety-cased runtimes for L3 and L4 programs.
RTOS, baseband, secure boot, and constrained-device firmware shipped into industrial, medical, and telecom hardware.
Control planes, multi-tenant data paths, observability spines, and platform engineering for hyperscale environments.
Low-latency matching, deterministic settlement, and resilient ledger infrastructure under regulatory load.
Mission-critical embedded, secure-by-construction runtimes, and formally verified components for cleared programs.
SCADA modernization, grid telemetry, and safe automation runtimes across renewables and heavy industry.
Sandbox depth is not infinite. Every domain we accept requires sustained investment in reference architectures, fault libraries, simulator integrations, and a bench of senior reviewers who can grade artifacts in that domain without consulting outside help. We would rather operate a credible laboratory across six domains than a thin veneer across twenty. If the work you're hiring for sits inside one of the categories above, the manifest will be ready in days, not weeks, and the bench is already warm.
Within each industry we maintain a graph of candidates we have either previously sandboxed or assessed through code review of public work — open-source contributions, conference artifacts, patent filings, and published designs. That graph is the difference between a recruiter cold-emailing a name from LinkedIn and our intake team re-engaging an engineer we already understand at the patch level. It also lets us move faster on stretch hires: when an industry-adjacent candidate looks promising, we already have the assessment scaffolding to qualify them inside the sandbox without inventing a new rubric from scratch.
If your domain is not listed, write to us anyway. We accept new domains deliberately — typically one per quarter — and we are honest when a discipline sits outside our credible coverage. In those cases we will tell you so and, where we can, recommend a partner that does this work as well as we do ours.
