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Salary: USD 180,000 - 290,000 / annual
CHAOS Industries is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join their R&D and product engineering team, initially focusing on next-generation radar products. This is a collaborative role where you will work across multiple capabilities within their product offerings and have opportunities to expand your skillset across product families.
You will be responsible for research & development and production software development for next-generation radar products, supporting system integration of software on hardware (primarily commercial-off-the-shelf COTS hardware), and supporting deployed software capabilities for U.S. and international customers. This is a full-time on-site position in the Los Angeles (El Segundo) office.
CHAOS Industries, founded in 2022, has raised $1B in total funding from leading investors including 8VC, Accel, and NEA. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles with offices in Washington D.C., San Francisco, and London. They employ 200+ people across 5 global offices and are redefining modern defense with omniscient systems powered by Coherent Distributed Networks (CDN™), empowering warfighters, commercial air operators, and border protection teams.
The company offers competitive benefits including 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage, 401k with 50% company match up to 6% of pay, FSA, HSA, life insurance, free daily lunch, no-meeting Fridays, unlimited PTO, casual dress code, competitive base salaries, generous pre-IPO stock option grants, and relocation assistance.
REQUIREMENTS:
Minimum:
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field
- 5+ years of professional object-oriented software development experience
- Extensive/advanced Python experience
- Experience with Agile lifecycle processes including Scrum, Continuous Integration, and Test-Driven Development methodologies
- Ability to work with minimal supervision and collaborate on small teams
- Solid understanding and extensive experience with Linux software development
- U.S. Person status required (position requires access to U.S.-only data systems)
Preferred:
- Experience with HW/SW integration and testing (I&T) and verification & validation (V&V) of high-TRL systems
- Production-level software development and deployment experience, including DevOps, DevSecOps, and/or CI/CD using modern FOSS/COTS toolsets
- Experience with software development tools enforcing best practices (linting, code coverage, code quality/security scanning, documentation generation, etc.)
- Network experience (software and hardware)
- CUDA/JAX experience
- Software-Defined Radio (SDR) development experience (e.g., Ettus)
- Near-real-time systems development experience
- Additional programming languages: C++, Rust, NodeJS, Java, Go
- Git experience
- Container experience (Docker, Podman, etc.)
