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Salary: USD 160,000 - 280,000 / 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 multi-product defense solutions powered by Coherent Distributed Networks (CDN™) that enable warfighters, commercial air operators, and border protection teams to act faster and stay ahead of evolving threats.
The company is seeking a highly-skilled Senior Guidance Software Engineer to join the R&D team in Los Angeles (Hawthorne). In this role, you will lead the design of guidance software for a clean sheet airframe design and have opportunities to expand your skillset across product families.
Key Responsibilities:
- Implement guidance and navigation software within COTS software frameworks
- Support airframe design activities
- Support system integration of software on flight hardware
- Work full-time on-site in the Los Angeles office
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or related field
- 10+ years of professional object-oriented software development experience
- Experience designing and implementing guidance algorithms for UAS platforms using commercial autopilot frameworks like ArduPilot
- Practical understanding of flight dynamics for fixed-wing and rotary-wing platforms
- Solid understanding and extensive experience with software development on microcontroller architectures (STM32 or similar) and Linux hosted on Nvidia Jetson, AMD/Xilinx SoC, or Microblaze architectures
- Experience developing real-time embedded software including hardware interfaces
- Experience integrating vendor-provided low-level drivers and firmware
- Experience with Agile lifecycle processes including Scrum, Continuous Integration, and Test-Driven Development
- Ability to work with minimal supervision and collaborate on small teams
- U.S. Person status required due to access to U.S.-only data systems
Preferred Requirements:
- Current or previous DoD security clearance
- Part 107 remote pilot certification
- Experience with EO/IR sensor integration
- Experience with radar sensor integration
- Experience with VHDL firmware development and embedded software development on AMD/Xilinx FPGAs
- Experience with git version control
- Experience with production-level software development and deployment including DevOps, DevSecOps, and CI/CD using modern FOSS/COTS toolsets
- Experience with full lifecycle software development of high-TRL systems
- Experience with hardware/software integration and testing and verification of high-TRL systems
