Guidance, Navigation, and Control Software Engineer
CHAOS Industries8 hours ago
Base Salary
$160k - $240k/yr
Responsibilities
- Implement guidance and navigation software within COTS software frameworks.
- Support airframe design activities.
- Support software system integration on flight hardware.
- Develop guidance algorithms for UAS platforms using commercial autopilot frameworks such as ArduPilot.
- Develop real-time embedded software and integrate vendor-provided low-level drivers and firmware.
- Collaborate with small teams and work with minimal supervision.
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 developing 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 microcontroller architectures and Linux hosted on Nvidia Jetson, AMD/Xilinx SoC, or Microblaze architectures.
- Experience developing real-time embedded software with hardware interfaces.
- U.S. Person status is required to access U.S.-only data systems.
- Preferred: current or previous DoD security clearance.
- Preferred: Part 107 remote pilot certification.
- Preferred: EO/IR and radar sensor integration experience.
- Preferred: VHDL firmware development and embedded software development on AMD/Xilinx FPGAs.
- Preferred: Git, production-level software development and deployment, DevOps or DevSecOps, CI/CD, full lifecycle development of high-TRL systems, and HW/SW integration, test, 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, plus FSA, HSA, and life insurance.
- Free daily lunch and a fully stocked kitchen.
- Unlimited paid time off and casual dress code.
- Relocation assistance and pre-IPO stock option grants.
- Full-time, on-site work in Hawthorne, 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.