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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. \nCHAOS 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 www.chaosinc.com.\nRole Overview: \nCHAOS is seeking a Director of Electrical Engineering to build and lead the electrical engineering organization responsible for power, analog, mixed-signal, and digital electronics across RF sensors and avionics systems. You will lead the development of mission-critical hardware from concept and architecture through qualification, production, field deployment, and sustainment. \nThe ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise in at least one electrical engineering discipline with sufficient breadth to lead complex, high-reliability electronics development across these disciplines. You will recruit and develop a rapidly growing team, establish engineering standards and operating practices, allocate resources across programs, and ensure the organization delivers technically rigorous hardware on schedule. You will lead from the front, personally addressing critical technical challenges while building the team and technical leadership needed to support continued growth. \nThis is a full-time, on-site position in El Segundo, CA. \nResponsibilities: \nBuild, lead, and develop a rapidly growing team of power, analog, mixed-signal, and digital electrical engineers \nDefine the organization’s hiring plan, technical capabilities, engineering standards, and design review practices \nPlan staffing, priorities, schedules, and resource allocation across programs \nLead the development of electronic system architectures and associated trade studies to meet performance, SWaP-C, manufacturability, reliability, schedule, and qualification requirements \nProvide technical leadership across high-speed digital, analog and mixed-signal electronics, power conversion and distribution, PCB design, signal and power integrity, and EMI/EMC \nResolve complex cross-disciplinary issues involving electrical hardware, FPGA and embedded software interfaces, RF circuits, thermal design, mechanical packaging, manufacturing, and test \nLead hardware integration, verification, qualification, transition to rate production, failure investigation, and field support \nServe as the senior electrical engineering representative to program leadership, customers, suppliers, and manufacturing partners \nRemain hands-on and personally contribute to critical architecture, design, integration, and troubleshooting activities as needed \nMinimum Requirements: \nBachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering with 15+ years of relevant engineering experience \nExperience leading and developing engineering teams responsible for complex, high-reliability electronics \nBackground developing electronics for aerospace, defense, radar, electronic warfare, missile, space, or similarly demanding applications \nDeep expertise in at least one electrical engineering discipline, with sufficient breadth to lead high-speed digital, analog and mixed-signal, and power electronics development \nExperience developing complex electronic systems incorporating technologies such as FPGAs, processors, memory, data converters, high-speed interfaces, power conversion, and analog signal chains \nStrong knowledge of PCB design, component selection, signal and power integrity, grounding, EMI/EMC, derating, and design for manufacturability \nExperience leading hardware from architecture and detailed design through bring-up, integration, qualification, production, and failure investigation \nFamiliarity with applicable aerospace standards, including MIL-STD-461, MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-1275, and RTCA/DO-160 \nAbility to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance \nPreferred Requirements: \nAdvanced degree in Electrical Engineering or a related discipline \nExperience building or rapidly scaling an electrical engineering team \nExperience developing avionics or RF sensor electronics \nExperience with signal-integrity or power-integrity analysis tools such as HyperLynx, Sigrity, ADS, Ansys SIwave, or equivalent \nExperience with interfaces such as DDR, PCIe, Ethernet, JESD204, SERDES, and LVDS in high-reliability systems \nExperience establishing reusable architectures, design standards, analysis templates, qualification approaches, or technical review processes \nExperience managing external design partners, PCB fabrication and assembly suppliers, or other critical electronics suppliers \n\nWhy CHAOS?\nHealth Benefits: Medical, dental, and vision benefits 100% paid for by the company\n Additional benefits: 401k (+ 50% company match up to 6% of pay), FSA, HSA, life insurance, and more\nOur Perks: Free daily lunch, ‘No meeting Fridays’, unlimited PTO, casual dress code\n Compensation Components: Competitive base salaries, generous pre-IPO stock option grants, relocation assistance, and (coming soon!) annual bonuses\nTeam Growth: 350 employees and counting across 5 global offices\n $246k-308k\nThe 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. \nRecruiting Agencies: CHAOS Industries does not accept unsolicited resumes or outreach. 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