Senior Radar Software Engineer

CHAOS Industries • El Segundo, CA

12h • $140,000 - $240,000 • Onsite

About The Position

CHAOS Industries is seeking a Senior Radar Software Engineer to support R&D and product engineering, initially focused on next-generation radar products. The role involves collaborating across multiple product capabilities and offers the opportunity to expand skills across the company’s product families. The position is based full-time on-site in the company’s Hawthorne, Los Angeles office. The engineer will develop software for radar products, integrate software with primarily commercial off-the-shelf hardware, and support deployed software capabilities used by U.S. and international customers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or higher degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of professional object-oriented software development experience.
• Extensive or 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 of and extensive experience developing software using Linux.
• U.S. Person status, because the role requires the ability to access U.S.-only data systems.

Nice To Haves

• Development experience with ground or airborne sensors, such as radars, EO/IR, or electronic warfare systems.
• Experience designing and implementing radar modes and algorithms, signal processing, target detection, and tracking.
• Current or previous DoD security clearance.
• Experience with software and hardware networks.
• Experience with CUDA.
• Experience with Software-Defined Radios, such as Ettus.
• Experience with advanced time synchronization technologies beyond NTP.
• Experience developing near-real-time embedded software.
• Experience with git.
• Experience with containers such as Docker or Podman.
• Familiarity with cloud computing and virtualization technologies such as WSL, KVM, Hyper-V, or VMware.
• Experience with BIOS, Secure Boot, TPM, Network Boot, or PXE.
• Experience with hardware and software drive encryption such as LUKS or OPAL.
• Experience with 2D and 3D visualization, ideally in defense use cases, such as SIMDIS.
• Experience with DoD and related system/software architectures and messaging standards, such as OMS, SOSA, or Link-16.
• Experience with modeling and simulation, including hardware-in-the-loop and software-in-the-loop testbeds such as DIS, VR-Forces, or AFSIM.
• Experience with production-level software development and deployment, including DevOps, DevSecOps, and/or CI/CD using modern FOSS/COTS toolsets.
• Experience with full-lifecycle software development of high-TRL systems.
• Experience with hardware/software integration and test (I&T) and verification and validation (V&V) of high-TRL systems.
• Experience with additional languages such as C++, Rust, NodeJS, Java, or Go.

Responsibilities

• Conduct research and development and production software development for next-generation radar products.
• Support integration of software with hardware, primarily commercial off-the-shelf hardware.
• Support deployed software capabilities used by U.S. and international customers.
• Work full-time on-site in the Hawthorne, Los Angeles office.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits fully paid for by the company.
• 401(k) with a 50% company match up to 6% of pay.
• Flexible spending account (FSA) and health savings account (HSA).
• Life insurance.
• Free daily lunch.
• No-meeting Fridays.
• Unlimited PTO.
• Casual dress code.
• Generous pre-IPO stock option grants.
• Relocation assistance.
• Annual bonuses described as coming soon.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior