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Salary: USD 120,000 - 210,000 / 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 solutions powered by Coherent Distributed Networks (CDN™) for warfighters, commercial air operators, and border protection teams.
This Production Software Engineer role is a high-ownership, on-site position in Los Angeles, CA, focused on building the software infrastructure that powers CHAOS's manufacturing operations. You will design, build, and own tools and services that pull data from dispersed production sources, organize it into a cohesive system, and make it usable across the factory.
Key responsibilities include:
**Data Services & Systems Integration**: Design and build Python services that ingest, organize, and store manufacturing data from shop-floor, test, and enterprise sources in mixed formats. Integrate manufacturing software with the broader systems ecosystem (MES, ERP, QMS, PLM, and data platforms) to ensure production data is trustworthy, queryable, and usable end to end.
**Tooling & Adoption**: Transform ad-hoc production and operations requests into reusable tools with clear interfaces, documentation, and adoption paths. Design systems that scale with production growth and are straightforward for operators, technicians, and engineers to use.
**Factory Networks & Device Connectivity**: Write software that communicates with devices and services across factory networks, including multiple subnets and VLANs. Debug connectivity, routing, and interface issues as they arise.
**Infrastructure & Deployment**: Containerize services with Docker, run code in containers, and integrate with existing containerized environments. Deploy and operate services in major cloud environments (Azure, AWS, or equivalent), including networking, storage, and runtime components.
**Engineering Practice & Cross-Functional Partnership**: Establish practical engineering standards for the manufacturing software team covering system design, code quality, CI/CD, and maintainability. Partner with manufacturing, quality, and production engineering teams to understand data generation and flow.
**Requirements:**
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or related STEM field, or equivalent hands-on experience
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with a track record of owning systems end to end
- Strong Python software development experience
- Hands-on experience building and operating software in a major cloud environment (Azure, AWS, or equivalent)
- Demonstrated system design skills: planning beyond immediate asks and shipping tools that scale and get adopted
- Experience organizing data from multiple sources and formats into usable storage, access, and application layers
- Working knowledge of computer networking fundamentals (IP addressing, routing, subnetting, VLANs, device communication across networks)
- Practical Docker or equivalent container experience: packaging services and integrating with containerized runtimes
- Working Linux fluency: comfortable operating in Linux environments daily (command line, services, logs, permissions, basic networking)
- Familiarity with modern CI/CD practices and tooling (Jenkins, Artifactory, or equivalent)
- Fluency with modern AI-assisted engineering tools (Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT) as part of day-to-day development
- Ability to work across factory functions and communicate clearly with both engineers and non-engineers
- U.S. citizenship required: this role accesses export-controlled information and requires a U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Secret security clearance—current or ability to obtain and maintain one
**Preferred Qualifications:**
- Experience in aerospace, defense, manufacturing, or high-growth startup environments
- Experience with Palantir Foundry
- Familiarity with MES/MOM, ERP, QMS, CRM, and modern data/ontology platforms
- JavaScript/TypeScript skills or willingness to work across the stack for factory tool interfaces
- Production-level software development and deployment experience, including DevOps/DevSecOps practices
- Experience supporting digital manufacturing, factory automation, or shop-floor/OT–IT systems
- Experience guiding other engineers on software design, code quality, and delivery practices
- Active U.S. Department of Defense Secret or Top Secret security clearance
