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Salary: USD 160,000 - 240,000 / annual
CHAOS Industries is seeking a Senior Guidance Software Engineer to join the R&D team and lead the design of guidance software for a clean-sheet airframe design. You will work on implementing guidance and navigation software within commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software frameworks, support airframe design activities, and oversee system integration of software on flight hardware.
CHAOS Industries is a defense technology company founded in 2022 and headquartered in Los Angeles, with offices in Washington D.C., San Francisco, and London. The company has raised $1B in funding from leading investors including 8VC, Accel, and NEA. CHAOS specializes in advanced sensing and detection solutions powered by Coherent Distributed Networks (CDN™), serving warfighters, commercial air operators, and border protection teams.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and implement guidance and navigation software within COTS software frameworks
- Support airframe design activities
- Integrate software on flight hardware systems
- Work full-time on-site in the Los Angeles (Hawthorne) 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 (e.g., ArduPilot)
- Practical understanding of flight dynamics for fixed-wing and rotary-wing platforms
- 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 with 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 (position requires 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
- Git experience
- Production-level software development and deployment experience including DevOps, DevSecOps, CI/CD using modern FOSS/COTS toolsets
- Full lifecycle software development experience with high-TRL systems
- Hardware/software integration, test, and verification (I&T and V&V) experience with high-TRL systems
