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Salary: USD 140,000 - 240,000 / annual
CHAOS Industries is seeking a Senior Radar Software Engineer to join their R&D and product engineering team in El Segundo, California. The company, founded in 2022 and backed by $1B in funding from top-tier investors including 8VC, Accel, and NEA, is redefining modern defense with omniscient systems powered by Coherent Distributed Networks (CDN). The team includes top U.S. military veterans and Silicon Valley innovators.
In this role, you will focus on research & development and production software development for next-generation radar products. You will support system integration of software on hardware (primarily commercial-off-the-shelf COTS hardware), collaborate with small teams on multiple capabilities within product offerings, and support deployed software capabilities for U.S. and international customers. This is a highly collaborative position that offers opportunities to expand your skillset across the company's product families. The role requires full-time, on-site work in the Los Angeles office.
CHAOS Industries' products empower warfighters, commercial air operators, and border protection teams to act faster, adapt rapidly, and stay ahead of evolving threats. The company operates offices in Los Angeles, Washington D.C., San Francisco, and London, with 400+ employees across 5 global offices.
Compensation includes competitive base salary, generous pre-IPO stock option grants, relocation assistance, and upcoming annual bonuses. Benefits include 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; and casual dress code.
**Requirements:**
Minimum:
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field
- 10+ years of professional, object-oriented software development experience
- Extensive/advanced Python experience
- Experience with Agile lifecycle processes (Scrum, Continuous Integration, Test-Driven Development)
- 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:
- Development experience with ground or airborne sensors (radars, EO/IR, EW, etc.)
- Experience designing and implementing radar modes, algorithms, signal processing, target detection, and tracking
- Current or previous DoD security clearance
- Network experience (software and hardware)
- CUDA experience
- Software-Defined Radio (SDR) experience (e.g., Ettus)
- Advanced time synchronization technologies beyond NTP
- Near-real-time, embedded software development
- Git experience
- Container experience (Docker, Podman, etc.)
- Cloud computing and virtualization (WSL, KVM, Hyper-V, VMware)
- BIOS, Secure Boot, TPM, Network Boot, PXE experience
- Hardware and software drive encryption (LUKS, OPAL, etc.)
- 2D and 3D visualization in defense use cases (e.g., SIMDIS)
- DoD system/software architectures and messaging standards (OMS, SOSA, Link-16, etc.)
- Modeling & simulation experience (DIS, VR-Forces, AFSIM)
- Production-level software development and deployment (DevOps, DevSecOps, CI/CD)
- Full lifecycle software development of high-TRL systems
- Hardware/software integration and verification of high-TRL systems
- Additional languages: C++, Rust, NodeJS, Java, Go, etc.
