CHAOS Inc. is a global technology company delivering next-generation capabilities to the defense and critical industrial sectors. Founded in 2022 by a seasoned leadership team, CHAOS has quickly become the place where world-class multi-disciplinary engineers come to build mission-critical technologies. CHAOS has a mission-focused culture, dedicated to solving the toughest technical challenges. Its unique agile engineering approach enables rapid prototyping, while deep partnerships with defense and industry ensure real-world solutions.

Role Overview

CHAOS is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Software Engineer to join our team supporting our product engineering. This is a highly collaborative role which will allow you to wear multiple hats and work very closely with our product. As a member of our engineering team, you will also have the opportunity to expand your skillset across our product line.

A key aspect of this role will be leveraging Palantir Foundry as CHAOS's internal data operating platform - building, maintaining, and optimizing end-to-end workflows and pipelines that manage sensor, operational, and enterprise data across the company. You will work across teams to ensure our data infrastructure and workflows are reliable, scalable, and directly enable mission outcomes. This role will be central to delivering the CHAOS Operating System in Foundry - a unified data backbone that connects engineering, operations, and manufacturing.

Responsibilities

• Design and build Foundry-based pipelines and workflows, enabling ingestion, transformation, and delivery of data for both engineering and operational users
• Define major parts of our data and backend architecture, including choice of frameworks and systems
• Build and maintain our data infrastructure, real-time data processing, data transportation, and backend services
• Collaborate closely with product, system, software, and hardware engineers to integrate data flows into mission workflows
• Mentor other engineers as the team grows, and work with engineering leadership to define longer term roadmaps
• Work 3+ days per week out of our office in San Francisco (Market Street) or Los Angeles (Hawthorne)
• Minimum of 2+ years of experience in professional, object-oriented software development
• Experience with Python, SQL data warehouses, and no-SQL systems
• Experience building, testing, and supporting major systems in production
• Experience building or maintaining data pipelines or workflows in Palantir Foundry or other enterprise data platforms

Qualifications

• Proven experience in object-oriented software development (minimum 2+ years)
• Proficiency with Python and SQL data warehouses; experience with no-SQL systems
• Experience designing and maintaining data pipelines or workflows in enterprise data platforms
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams including product, systems, software, and hardware engineers
• Willingness to work in an office-based setting 3+ days per week in either San Francisco or Los Angeles

Preferred Requirements

• Familiarity with Azure or other cloud platforms
• Development experience in Defence, especially with ground or airborne sensors (Radars, EO/IR, EW, etc.)
• Modeling & Simulation, including hardware-in-the-loop and software-in-the-loop testbeds for algorithm verification
• Familiarity with Agile lifecycle processes including Scrum, Continuous Integration, and Test Driven Development Methodologies
• Experience with 2D and 3D Visualization in defense use cases
• Experience with additional frameworks such as React

Why CHAOS?

• Health Benefits: Your medical, dental and vision benefits are 100% paid for by the company
• Additional benefits: life, FSA, HSA, 401k (+ Company match), and more
• Our Perks: free daily lunch, “No meeting Fridays,” unlimited PTO, casual dress code
• Compensation Components: competitive base salaries, generous pre-IPO stock option grants, relocation assistance, and upcoming annual bonuses
• Company Size: 150+ employees

Equal Opportunity

CHAOS Industries is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected status. Reasonable accommodations will be provided in accordance with applicable law.