Software Engineer, Numerical Computing
CHAOS Industries12 hours ago
Base Salary
$150k - $210k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain production-quality numerical software in Python.
- Integrate third-party software and hardware into the platform through APIs and maintain abstraction layers.
- Profile and accelerate signal-processing implementations using vectorization, array-programming frameworks, JIT compilation, GPU offload, or compiled-code bindings.
- Define testing and CI practices for numerical code, including regression, tolerance, reproducibility, property-based, and reference-implementation testing.
- Collaborate with signal-processing engineers to productionize algorithms from papers, prototypes, and MATLAB.
- Contribute to software architecture decisions for the sensing product line.
- Travel periodically, up to 30%.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Physics, or a related field.
- At least 5 years of professional software development experience.
- Demonstrated proficiency building, maintaining, testing, and debugging production-quality Python numerical-computing codebases.
- Strong command of array-based numerical computing, including NumPy, SciPy, or equivalent, and understanding of Python performance limitations.
- Experience accelerating numerical code through JIT compilation, array or tensor DSLs, GPU computing, or Python bindings to compiled languages.
- Experience contributing to a large, multi-team codebase and shipping changes used by other teams.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, including version control, code review, automated testing, and CI.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.
- Preferred qualifications include a master’s degree, open-source numerical or scientific-computing contributions, digital signal-processing experience, software-defined-radio experience, real-time or streaming data-processing experience, API or library design experience, MATLAB familiarity, current security clearance, JIRA and Confluence familiarity, and DoD, military, or government 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 while working onsite and a fully stocked kitchen.
- Unlimited paid time off and casual dress code.
- Pre-IPO stock option grants and relocation assistance.
- On-site in Washington, D.C. four days per week, with periodic travel up to 30%.
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.