Senior Autonomy & Guidance Software Engineer
CHAOS Industries3 months ago
Base Salary
$160k - $240k/yr
Responsibilities
- Implement guidance and navigation software within commercial off-the-shelf software frameworks
- Lead guidance software design for a clean-sheet airframe
- Support airframe design activities
- Integrate software with flight hardware
- Develop and integrate real-time embedded flight software and hardware interfaces
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or higher degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related field
- At least 10 years of professional object-oriented software development experience
- Experience implementing guidance algorithms for UAS platforms using commercial autopilot frameworks such as ArduPilot
- Practical understanding of fixed-wing and rotary-wing flight dynamics
- Extensive software development experience on STM32 or similar microcontrollers and Linux hosted on Nvidia Jetson, AMD/Xilinx SoC, or Microblaze architectures
- Experience developing real-time embedded software with hardware interfaces
- Experience integrating vendor-provided low-level drivers and firmware
- U.S. Person status is required to access U.S.-only data systems
- Ability to work with minimal supervision and collaborate on small teams
- Preferred: current or previous DoD security clearance, Part 107 remote pilot certification, EO/IR or radar sensor integration experience, VHDL and AMD/Xilinx FPGA development experience, Git experience, production-level software development and deployment experience, and high-TRL system lifecycle, integration, testing, and verification experience
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits fully paid by the company
- 401(k) with a 50% company match up to 6% of pay
- Flexible spending account, health savings account, and life insurance
- Free daily lunch, no-meeting Fridays, unlimited paid time off, and casual dress code
- Relocation assistance
- Full-time, on-site work in Hawthorne, Los Angeles, California
About CHAOS Industries
CHAOS Industries builds networked sensing, communications, and real-time software systems for defense, government security, commercial aviation, and critical infrastructure operators. It sells integrated hardware–software platforms and related services to government and industrial customers. Founded in 2022 and headquartered in Los Angeles, the privately held company also maintains offices in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, and London, and its products are designed for fielded, time-critical operations.