Software Engineer Job at CHAOS Industries in San Francisco

Overview CHAOS Industries is a global technology company delivering next-generation capabilities to the defense and critical industrial sectors. CHAOS focuses on mission-driven engineering, rapid prototyping, and strong partnerships with defense and industry to deliver real-world solutions. This role supports our product engineering and offers the opportunity to expand skillsets across our product line. A key aspect of this role is 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 enable mission outcomes, contributing to delivering the CHAOS Operating System in Foundry. 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 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: We are building the next generation of aerospace, defense and critical industry technologies with a seasoned team of mission-focused individuals. Founded in June 2022, we leverage agile engineering approaches, deep defense partnerships, and our Coherence platform to improve sensor performance and decision-making in real-time. Salary Range: $130,000 - $220,000 #J-18808-Ljbffr