Chaos Industries is a Los Angeles–based manufacturer of radar systems designed to detect drones.
<p>CHAOS Industries is redefining modern defense with a multi-product portfolio that gives the ultimate advantage—domain dominance. The company's products are powered by Coherent Distributed Networks (CDN™), empowering warfighters, commercial air operators, and border protection teams to act faster, adapt rapidly, and stay ahead of evolving threats. </p> <p>CHAOS Industries was founded in 2022 and has raised a total of $1 billion in funding from leading investors, including 8VC, Accel, and Valor Equity Partners. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, with offices in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, and London. For more information, please visit <a href="https://www.chaosinc.com">www.chaosinc.com</a>.</p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="1" data-local-id="e95106e97038"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">Role Overview:</strong></p> <ul> <li data-renderer-start-pos="19" data-local-id="43e30294e917">Own <span data-highlighted="true" data-vc="highlighted-text"><span class="_kqswh2mm"><span class="_5pioz8co _189e1dm9 _1il9buyh _19lc184f _d0altlke" data-testid="definition-highlighter">RF</span></span></span>-centric integration, debug, characterization, and validation for radar hardware, subsystems, and test environments</li> <li>Serve as the Integration and Test team's lead <span data-highlighted="true" data-vc="highlighted-text">RF</span> engineer across lab, production, chamber, and field environments — ensuring <span data-highlighted="true" data-vc="highlighted-text">RF</span> chains and test setups produce trustworthy measurements and enable rapid root-cause isolation</li> </ul> <p data-renderer-start-pos="369" data-local-id="5a650f974807"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">Responsibilities:</strong></p> <ul> <li data-renderer-start-pos="390" data-local-id="35759cbe3f81">Lead <span data-highlighted="true" data-vc="highlighted-text">RF</span> debug, characterization, and acceptance for radar hardware — transmit chains, receive chains, antennas, cables, adapters, switches, filters, LNAs, HPAs, SDRs, and frequency conversion stages — including qualifying new components for integration into radar systems</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="665" data-local-id="c87e641bc681">Diagnose <span data-highlighted="true" data-vc="highlighted-text">RF</span> failures by selecting and executing the appropriate measurements — S-parameters, <span data-highlighted="true" data-vc="highlighted-text"><span class="_kqswh2mm"><span class="_5pioz8co _189e1dm9 _1il9buyh _19lc184f _d0altlke" data-testid="definition-highlighter">VSWR</span></span></span>, noise figure, phase noise, <span data-highlighted="true" data-vc="highlighted-text"><span class="_kqswh2mm"><span class="_5pioz8co _189e1dm9 _1il9buyh _19lc184f _d0altlke" data-testid="definition-highlighter">IP3</span></span></span>/<span data-highlighted="true" data-vc="highlighted-text"><span class="_kqswh2mm"><span class="_5pioz8co _189e1dm9 _1il9buyh _19lc184f _d0altlke" data-testid="definition-highlighter">P1dB</span></span></span>, gain/compression, group delay, harmonics/spurs, isolation, and time-domain — and reconcile component-level results against system-level performance such as detection range, sensitivity, and calibration accuracy</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="1015" data-local-id="ead1ff622c01">Choose the right instrument for the failure mode — VNAs, spectrum analyzers, signal generators, phase noise analyzers, power meters, oscilloscopes, noise figure analyzers, and supporting calibration standards.</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="1228" data-local-id="335572f78e39">Isolate subtle <span data-highlighted="true" data-vc="highlighted-text">RF</span> issues such as insertion loss drift, intermittent behavior, phase instability, spurious content, compression effects, <span data-highlighted="true" data-vc="highlighted-text"><span class="_kqswh2mm"><span class="_5pioz8co _189e1dm9 _1il9buyh _19lc184f _d0altlke" data-testid="definition-highlighter">LO</span></span></span> leakage, and timing/frequency drift</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="1406" data-local-id="cd010ab942f1">Define, configure, and calibrate <span data-highlighted="true" data-vc="highlighted-text">RF</span> test setups so measurements are repeatable and representative of system operating conditions</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="1538" data-local-id="4a5b44db6312">Determine whether an observed failure is caused by component defect, cable/connector/interface degradation, calibration error, fixture/setup limitation, environmental effect, or broader system interaction — and connect those measurement results back to radar-level performance impacts</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="1826" data-local-id="0bbeeda8276a">Partner with systems, hardware, software, firmware, and integration engineers to root-cause failures that span <span data-highlighted="true" data-vc="highlighted-text">RF</span>, digital, timing, and test-setup boundaries</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="1987" data-local-id="93d5e8b0e992">Create <span data-highlighted="true" data-vc="highlighted-text">RF</span> test procedures, acceptance criteria, troubleshooting guides, and characterization reports that technicians and engineers can execute repeatably</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="2145" data-local-id="48c6f30ad3ec">Plan and execute phased array testing in our anechoic chamber, including <span data-highlighted="true" data-vc="highlighted-text"><span class="_kqswh2mm"><span class="_5pioz8co _189e1dm9 _1il9buyh _19lc184f _d0altlke" data-testid="definition-highlighter">EIRP</span></span></span>, transmit and receive beam patterns, sidelobe levels, beam steering accuracy, element-level calibration, and array calibration verification across the operating band</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="2392" data-local-id="e68a3ee3bc12">Stand up and improve <span data-highlighted="true" data-vc="highlighted-text">RF</span> portions of test racks, bench setups, and STE environments — including automated or semi-autom