Foundry Engineer

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 CHAOSs 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 Requirements

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

Preferred Requirements

Familiarity with Azure or other cloud platforms

Development experience in Defence especially 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 ideally in defense use cases

Experience with additional frameworks such as React.

Why CHAOS

• 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
• Company Size : 150 employees and counting!
• More About Us : Were building the next generation of aerospace defense and critical industry technologies with a seasoned team of mission-focused individuals. We were founded in June 2022 and our goal is to become the platform where world-class engineers come to solve critical real-world problems. We use agile engineering approaches which enable rapid prototyping deep partnerships with the defense industry ensuring real-world application and our newly-invented Coherence platform (through which weve made a fundamental breakthrough) improves sensor performance and decision-making in real-time. As of April 2025 we have raised $490M (including a $275M Series C at a $2B valuation) from some of the most prominent VC funds and investors including Accel NEA 8VC and Valar. With a managing team that includes Epirus founding members (responsible for building a $1.5B company from scratch) key drivers from Palantir (instrumental in Palantirs growth to $1B in revenue) we are well-positioned to become one of the fastest growing companies to date!

Salary Range : $130000 - $220000

The stated compensation range reflects only the targeted base compensation range and excludes additional earnings such as bonus equity and benefits. If your compensation requirements fall outside of the range we still encourage you to apply. The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a range of compensation factors inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience education and / or training critical skills and / or business considerations.

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Employment Type : Full Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

Monthly Salary Salary : 130000 - 220000