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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 highly motivated, mission-oriented Applied AI Engineer to help develop, integrate, and deploy AI/ML-powered capabilities across our product lines.\nIn this role, you will work closely with other data scientists, software engineers, product teams, and mission stakeholders to conduct advanced AI research and turn them into reliable, real-world software. The work will focus especially on defense applications where the systems must perform with extreme accuracy under constrained, adversarial, and operationally complex conditions.\nWe are looking for someone with strong data science and software engineering fundamentals, a record of technical excellence, and demonstrated experience applying AI/ML techniques to real products. Experience in aerospace, defense, critical infrastructure, robotics, RF systems, or other highly regulated or mission-driven environments is a strong plus.\nYou should be comfortable operating with independence, learning unfamiliar technical domains quickly, working across disparate teams, and moving prototypes toward production with limited oversight.\nResponsibilities\nBuild applied AI systems across CHAOS product lines, including model integration, inference services, evaluation pipelines, and production-facing AI capabilities\nPerform research and build products by working with product and mission teams to research, collect data, verify hypothesis and create robust, testable, maintainable, and deployable models\nEvaluate and improve model performance under real-world conditions, including adversarial GPS denied environments, low-power or edge deployments, and degraded or noisy inputs\nDevelop production-quality software for data pipelines for acquisition, model serving, monitoring, lifecycle management, data processing, and system integration.\nCreate rapid prototypes with mission and product teams, other relevant stakeholders and iterate toward production-ready implementations.\nContribute to AI system reliability, by conducting testing, benchmarking, observability, interpretability, failure analysis, and performance optimization.\nLearn quickly from existing codebases, documentation, research artifacts, and domain experts, then use that knowledge to drive execution.\nManage time effectively across meetings, technical discovery, implementation, experimentation, and production support.\nTravel and Location\nTravel: 10-20%, mostly domestic.\nLocation: Must work on-site at least 2 days per week from our San Francisco office; 2-4 days per week preferred.\nMinimum Requirements\nBS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, Machine Learning, Applied Mathematics, Physics, or a related technical field.\n2+ years of professional software development experience.\nStrong Python programming skills.\nExperience building, testing, deploying, and supporting production software systems.\nExperience with AI/ML model integration, model serving infrastructure, or model lifecycle management.\nExperience with model evaluation, benchmarking, robustness testing, interpretability, or ML observability.\nFamiliarity with APIs, distributed systems, containers, CI/CD, observability, and edge deployment environments/GPU optimization\nExcited to learn unfamiliar technical domains\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience with analog or digital RF signal processing\nExperience with digital picture or video processing\nExperience productizing machine learning models, LLM applications, computer vision systems, signal-processing systems, or autonomous/robotic systems.\nExperience building AI agents or agentic workflows\nExperience with drone, robotics, sensor fusion, tracking, or moving-target detection systems.\nContributions to open-source projects or technically significant public work.\nExperience in aerospace, defense, critical infrastructure, robotics, or other mission-critical environments is a strong plus\nFamiliarity with edge deployment, low-latency inference, hardware-constrained systems, or degraded-connectivity environments.\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: 250 employees and counting across 5 global offices\n Salary Range: $140,000 - $193,000\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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