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Salary: USD 140,000 - 240,000 / annual
CHAOS Industries is seeking a mid-career Radar Software Engineer to join the R&D and product engineering team, focusing on next-generation radar products. This is a collaborative role where you will work across multiple capabilities within the product portfolio and have opportunities to expand your skillset across product families.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop R&D and production software for next-generation radar products
- Support system integration of software on hardware, primarily using commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware
- Support deployed software capabilities for U.S. and international customers
- Work full-time on-site at the Los Angeles (Hawthorne) office
About CHAOS Industries:
Founded in 2022, CHAOS Industries is redefining modern defense with omniscient systems purpose-built for today's realities. The company was founded by top U.S. military veterans and Silicon Valley innovators and 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. CHAOS delivers advanced sensing and detection solutions powered by Coherent Distributed Networks (CDN™), empowering warfighters, commercial air operators, and border protection teams.
Company Culture:
The company offers 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision benefits; 401k with 50% company match up to 6% of pay; FSA, HSA, and life insurance. Additional perks include free daily lunch, 'No meeting Fridays', unlimited PTO, and casual dress code. The company has 200+ employees across 5 global offices and offers competitive base salaries, generous pre-IPO stock option grants, relocation assistance, and annual bonuses (coming soon).
Requirements:
- 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 in Linux software development
- U.S. Person status required (position requires access to U.S.-only data systems)
Preferred Qualifications:
- 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
- Experience with networks (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 and simulation including hardware-in-the-loop and software-in-the-loop testbeds (DIS, VR-Forces, AFSIM)
- Production-level software development and deployment including DevOps, DevSecOps, CI/CD
- Full lifecycle software development of high-TRL systems
- Hardware/software integration and verification of high-TRL systems
- Additional programming languages (C++, Rust, NodeJS, Java, Go, etc.)
