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Salary: USD 160,000 - 240,000 / annual
CHAOS Industries, a defense technology company founded in 2022 and backed by $1B in funding from investors including 8VC, Accel, and NEA, is seeking a Senior Guidance Software Engineer to join its R&D team in El Segundo, California.
You will lead the design of guidance software for a clean-sheet airframe design and have opportunities to expand your skillset across product families. This is a full-time, on-site role reporting to the Engineering organization.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and implement guidance and navigation software within COTS software frameworks
- Support airframe design activities
- Integrate software on flight hardware and support system integration efforts
- Work collaboratively on small, high-performing engineering teams
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
- Hands-on experience designing and implementing guidance algorithms for UAS platforms using commercial autopilot frameworks (e.g., ArduPilot)
- Practical understanding of fixed-wing and rotary-wing flight dynamics
- Extensive experience developing embedded software on microcontroller architectures (STM32 or similar) and Linux-hosted platforms (Nvidia Jetson, AMD/Xilinx SoC, Microblaze)
- Real-time embedded software development experience, including hardware interfaces
- Experience integrating vendor-provided low-level drivers and firmware
- Proficiency with Agile processes (Scrum, CI/CD, Test-Driven Development)
- Ability to work with minimal supervision and collaborate effectively on small teams
- U.S. Person status required (access to U.S.-only data systems)
Preferred Qualifications:
- Current or previous DoD security clearance
- FAA Part 107 remote pilot certification
- EO/IR and radar sensor integration experience
- VHDL firmware development and AMD/Xilinx FPGA experience
- Git version control experience
- Production-level software development and deployment (DevOps, DevSecOps, CI/CD with modern FOSS/COTS tools)
- Full lifecycle software development of high-TRL systems
- Hardware/software integration, test, and verification of high-TRL systems
