Software Engineer - Guidance, Navigation, and Controls
CHAOS Industries8 hours ago
Base Salary
$160k - $240k/yr
Responsibilities
- Implement guidance and navigation software within commercial software frameworks.
- Support airframe design activities.
- Integrate software with flight hardware and support system integration.
- Develop real-time embedded software with hardware interfaces.
- Integrate vendor-provided low-level drivers and firmware.
- Collaborate with a small engineering team 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 designing and implementing guidance algorithms for UAS platforms using commercial autopilot frameworks such as ArduPilot.
- Practical understanding of fixed-wing and rotary-wing flight dynamics.
- Extensive experience developing software for STM32 or similar microcontrollers and Linux hosted on Nvidia Jetson, AMD/Xilinx SoC, or MicroBlaze architectures.
- Experience with real-time embedded software, hardware interfaces, vendor-provided drivers and firmware, and software integration.
- Ability to work with Agile lifecycle processes including Scrum, Continuous Integration, and Test-Driven Development methodologies.
- U.S. Person status is required to access U.S.-only data systems.
- Preferred qualifications include a current or prior DoD security clearance, Part 107 remote pilot certification, EO/IR or radar sensor integration, VHDL and AMD/Xilinx FPGA development, Git, production-level software deployment, DevOps or DevSecOps, high-TRL systems, and hardware/software integration, testing, and verification.
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, life insurance, and other benefits.
- Free daily lunch, fully stocked kitchen, unlimited PTO, and casual dress code.
- Pre-IPO stock option grants and relocation assistance; annual bonuses are planned for the future.
- 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.