CHAOS Industries-posted 2 months ago
$145,000 - $250,000/Yr
Full-time • Senior
Hawthorne, CA
101-250 employees

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. CHAOS is seeking a Lead Software Test Engineer to build and lead our automated system testing capability. This is a foundational role - an opportunity to define strategy and hands-on implement system & software testing across CHAOS’s cutting-edge sensing systems. You will collaborate closely with systems engineering and software engineering teams to create a robust automated test & validation pipeline that’s integrated into our CI/CD and release process. You’ll build tools, implement automated system tests, and develop rich reporting & analytics to ensure CHAOS's products meet the critical needs and requirements of our customers. The ideal candidate is a problem solver and innovator, fluent in both software quality and AI-assisted test & development, who will shape how CHAOS validates the next generation of defense technologies.

  • Establish and lead the automated software testing group within CHAOS, working with a distributed set of teams across multiple products.
  • Fully integrate Hardware-in-the-loop automated testing for production HW across multiple products and variants.
  • Collaborate with systems and software engineers to validate system-level and mission-level functionality.
  • Design, develop, and maintain end-to-end test frameworks for SW & FW Development (e.g. Python, CUDA, Typescript, and FPGA code).
  • Fully integrate into CI/CD pipelines (Bitbucket, Jenkins, Azure) for continuous test execution and analysis.
  • Support development and V&V for system test automation.
  • Build automated reporting and coverage dashboards, including AI-driven summarization of test incidents and anomalies.
  • Leverage AI to build and apply a suite of radar domain-specific automated test and validation capabilities.
  • Develop AI-native workflows using code copilots, LLMs, and reasoning models for intelligent automated system test.
  • Mentor junior engineers as the test organization scales.
  • Work on-site at our office in Hawthorne, CA.
  • 5+ years of experience in software QA, automated testing, or related software engineering roles.
  • Strong experience with Python and modern automated testing frameworks (pytest, robot framework, Playwright, or similar).
  • Experience integrating tests into CI/CD environments and measuring code coverage.
  • Familiarity with Dockerized or cloud-deployed software (Azure experience preferred).
  • Experience with AI-native development tools applied to automated test (GitHub Copilot, OpenAI APIs, Claude Code, or similar).
  • Experience building automated test frameworks for data pipelines, Hardware-in-the-loop system testing, and/or real-time systems.
  • Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally with systems and software teams.
  • Familiarity with defense-related sensing domains such as radar, RF/IQ data processing, and/or sensor fusion.
  • Understanding of performance testing, fault injection, and simulation-based testing (HIL/SIL).
  • Proficiency with Git and agile development practices.
  • Experience designing workflows for large-scale regression, fuzz, or stress testing.
  • Health Benefits: Your medical, dental and vision benefits will be 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 + (coming soon!) annual bonuses.
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