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Salary: USD 246,000 - 308,000 / annual
CHAOS Industries is a defense technology company founded in 2022 and backed by $1 billion in funding from leading investors including 8VC, Accel, and Valor Equity Partners. The company develops a multi-product portfolio powered by Coherent Distributed Networks (CDN™) that serves warfighters, commercial air operators, and border protection teams.
You will build and lead the electrical engineering organization responsible for power, analog, mixed-signal, and digital electronics across RF sensors and avionics systems. This is a hands-on director role where you will lead the development of mission-critical hardware from concept and architecture through qualification, production, field deployment, and sustainment.
Key responsibilities include:
- Build, lead, and develop a rapidly growing team of power, analog, mixed-signal, and digital electrical engineers
- Define the organization's hiring plan, technical capabilities, engineering standards, and design review practices
- Plan staffing, priorities, schedules, and resource allocation across programs
- Lead the development of electronic system architectures and associated trade studies to meet performance, SWaP-C, manufacturability, reliability, schedule, and qualification requirements
- Provide technical leadership across high-speed digital, analog and mixed-signal electronics, power conversion and distribution, PCB design, signal and power integrity, and EMI/EMC
- Resolve complex cross-disciplinary issues involving electrical hardware, FPGA and embedded software interfaces, RF circuits, thermal design, mechanical packaging, manufacturing, and test
- Lead hardware integration, verification, qualification, transition to rate production, failure investigation, and field support
- Serve as the senior electrical engineering representative to program leadership, customers, suppliers, and manufacturing partners
- Remain hands-on and personally contribute to critical architecture, design, integration, and troubleshooting activities
The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise in at least one electrical engineering discipline with sufficient breadth to lead complex, high-reliability electronics development. You will recruit and develop a rapidly growing team, establish engineering standards and operating practices, allocate resources across programs, and ensure the organization delivers technically rigorous hardware on schedule. You will lead from the front, personally addressing critical technical challenges while building the team and technical leadership needed to support continued growth.
Requirements:
- Deep technical expertise in at least one electrical engineering discipline (power, analog, mixed-signal, or digital electronics)
- Sufficient breadth to lead complex, high-reliability electronics development across multiple disciplines
- Experience establishing reusable architectures, design standards, analysis templates, qualification approaches, or technical review processes
- Experience managing external design partners, PCB fabrication and assembly suppliers, or other critical electronics suppliers
- Demonstrated ability to lead and develop engineering teams
- Experience with RF sensors, avionics systems, or defense/aerospace electronics preferred
- Track record of delivering mission-critical hardware through full lifecycle from concept to production and field deployment
