Product Engineer

Overview

CHAOS Inc. is a global technology company delivering next-generation capabilities to the defense and critical industrial sectors. Founded in 2022, CHAOS has a mission-focused culture and an agile engineering approach that enables rapid prototyping and real-world solutions through deep partnerships with defense and industry.

Role Overview

CHAOS is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Software Engineer to join our team supporting product engineering. This is a highly collaborative role in which you will wear multiple hats and work closely with our product. You will have the opportunity to expand your skillset across our product line. A key aspect of this role is leveraging Palantir Foundry as CHAOS\' 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

Preferred Requirements

Why CHAOS?

More About Us : We\'re 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 aim to become the platform where world-class engineers solve real-world problems. We use agile engineering approaches to enable rapid prototyping, deep partnerships with the defense industry for real-world application, and our Coherence platform to improve sensor performance and decision-making in real time. As of April 2025 we have raised $490M from prominent VC funds and investors. Our leadership includes members from Epirus and Palantir, positioning us to become a fast-growing company.

Salary Range : $130,000 - $220,000

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 work experience, education and / or training, critical skills, and / or business considerations.

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