# Software Engineer, Sensing Systems

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. 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, and London. For more information, please visit www.chaosinc.com. The Role: We're hiring one of the first software engineers on our electro-optical team. Today that means long-range EO/IR sensors. In future it could mean sensors on mobile and airborne platforms. Wherever the sensor sits, the job is the software that makes it, and every sensor around it, act as one system. This is a software engineering role first. You don't need to be a camera or computer vision specialist. You do need to be an excellent engineer who is curious about physical systems and understands how real sensor

- **Id**: 3488498
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/chaos-industries-software-engineer-sensing-systems>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: El Segundo, United States, Los Angeles, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: yes
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-29T22:29:29Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-29
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T04:34:39Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 10
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7015
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: 401k plan, Annual bonuses, Equity, Life insurance, Relocation assistance, Unlimited PTO
- **Relocation offered**: yes
- **Industries**: C4ISR, Defense Manufacturing

## Company

- **Id**: 449716
- **Name**: CHAOS Industries
- **Domain**: chaosinc.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/chaos-industries>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 85
- **Open postings**: 12
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.417
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 60
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 154000
- **Max**: 211000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 211000

## Technologies

- **Claude Code** — Optional: no
- **Computer Vision** — Optional: no
- **Cursor** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **MATLAB** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Simulink** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: yes
- **C++** — Optional: yes
- **CUDA** — Optional: yes
- **Gazebo** — Optional: yes
- **GStreamer** — Optional: yes
- **Isaac Sim** — Optional: yes
- **TypeScript** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 10

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-10-29T22:31:12Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 1; Filings 12m: 1

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 9
- **Expected fill days**: 60
- **Reasons**: conf:1, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 211000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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