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="0b00fb79432e"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">Role Overview:</strong></p> <ul> <li data-renderer-start-pos="19" data-local-id="b3d2c811c3a5">Own software and computer-system integration for radar platforms and test environments, with a focus on system bring-up, configuration validation, deployment readiness, and root-cause debug</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="212" data-local-id="dcdc04b9c57f">Act as the Integration and Test team's primary systems-focused engineer for Linux, networking, platform configuration, and software deployment workflows</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="368" data-local-id="db32cfb70c33">Support lab, production, and field integration efforts by ensuring radar systems, support equipment, and test infrastructure are configured correctly and can be debugged quickly when issues arise</li> </ul> <p data-renderer-start-pos="567" data-local-id="88d175c766b2"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">Responsibilities:</strong></p> <ul> <li data-renderer-start-pos="588" data-local-id="340abaf8e234">Lead software and platform bring-up activities for radar systems, support equipment, and test racks</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="691" data-local-id="316c4b6cf372">Validate end-to-end system configuration across BIOS, storage, Linux services, networking, time sync, container/runtime environments, and deployment tooling</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="851" data-local-id="71a16af33603">Troubleshoot and root-cause integration failures involving system configuration, operating system setup, services, permissions, network connectivity, routing, switch configuration, and software deployment</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="1059" data-local-id="19404ece6e88">Debug issues such as incorrect BIOS settings, RAID misconfiguration, Linux service failures, Docker context or permission issues, Azure CLI setup problems, and broken software deployment pipelines</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="1259" data-local-id="e374a4bcaba8">Own configuration and validation of Linux timing and synchronization services, including chrony, linuxptp, timemaster and related system dependencies</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="1412" data-local-id="d3cba5ac2f88">Support deployment and validation of software configuration stacks, including templated/config-as-code workflows such as Jsonnet-based builds</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="1557" data-local-id="2a7462f52c4e">Configure and troubleshoot Layer 2/Layer 3 networking for lab and system test environments, including host networking, VLANs, routing, firewall rules, and managed switch setup</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="1736" data-local-id="01505fc570f8">Stand up and maintain new test racks and STE environments, including computer systems, networking hardware, timing hardware, and test support infrastructure</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="1896" data-local-id="1dedf2c352b7">Develop scripts, tools, checklists, and automated validation workflows to quickly identify incorrect system configuration before formal test execution</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="2050" data-local-id="61b9d7ebf329">Partner with systems, software, firmware, <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>, and hardware engineers to isolate faults across subsystem boundaries and drive issues to closure</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="2196" data-local-id="f0b9301bea7b">Help design, implement, and execute automated test workflows for radar and <span data-highlighted="true" data-vc="highlighted-text">RF</span> system verification</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="2297" data-local-id="880b30d5eab8">Develop and maintain automated UI/end-to-end tests for the radar's on-device web interfaces — exercising all pages and components after software deployment to validate that the UI renders correctly, controls behave as expected, and data flows through to the backend (e.g., browser-driven test frameworks such as Playwright, Selenium, or Cypress)</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="2646" data-local-id="0b853b457c34">Develop and document repeatable integration procedures, debug guides, and test instructions so technicians and engineers can perform setup and troubleshooting consistently</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="2821" data-local-id="283287eaab49">Support lab and field test events as needed to ensure radar systems are ready for execution and data collection</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="2936" data-local-id="d87f863ef2d3">Work 4-5 days per week out of our office in Los Angeles (Hawthorne), California.</li> </ul> <p data-renderer-start-pos="3020" data-local-id="d161ae3554d3"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">Minimum Requirements:</strong></p> <ul> <li data-renderer-start-pos="3045" data-local-id="362fb2237fed">Bachelor’s degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering) or equivalent hands-on experience</li> <li data-renderer-start-pos="3220" data-local-id="931c142a29bf">3+ years of experience in systems integration, software integration, test engineering, site reliability, DevOps, l