Software Deployment & Integration Engineer, CHAOS Industries
$145-220k
4-5 days a week in office (Hawthorne, CA)
Next-gen defense & critical industry technologies
Be an early applicant
Next-gen defense & critical industry technologies
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$145-220k
4-5 days a week in office (Hawthorne, CA)
101-200 employees
Company mission
To redefine defense through technology.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering) or equivalent hands-on experience
- 3+ years of experience in systems integration, software integration, test engineering, site reliability, DevOps, lab infrastructure, or a similar technical role on complex hardware/software systems
- Experience with scripting or programming for automation, test, or diagnostics using Python, Bash, or similar languages
- Strong Linux system administration and troubleshooting experience in Ubuntu or similar Linux environments
- Experience configuring and debugging Linux services, startup behavior, permissions, users/groups, package dependencies, logs, and system-level networking
- Experience troubleshooting computer system bring-up and platform configuration, including BIOS settings, storage/RAID setup, hardware interfaces, and operating system installation/configuration
- Experience with computer networking fundamentals, including IP addressing, routing, subnetting, VLANs, DNS, firewalls, and managed switch configuration
- Experience debugging complex technical issues methodically using logs, command-line tools, packet captures, service status, and system telemetry
- Ability to create clear technical documentation, test procedures, and debug workflows
- Strong ownership mindset, attention to detail, and willingness to work across hardware and software boundaries
Desirable
- Experience supporting integration and test for radar systems, RF systems, aerospace systems, defense systems, or other complex electromechanical platforms
- Experience using and configuring RF test equipment or supporting RF verification in lab environments
- Experience standing up and maintaining lab infrastructure, STE, HIL/SIL environments, or production test systems
- Familiarity with containerized software environments such as Docker, container permissions, and deployment/runtime configuration
- Experience with infrastructure and deployment tooling such as Azure CLI, configuration templating, Jsonnet, Ansible, or similar tooling
- Experience with precision time synchronization technologies such as PTP, NTP, GNSS-referenced timing, or timemaster
- Experience with test automation frameworks, automated hardware/software validation, or regression testing in lab environments
- Experience with browser-based UI/end-to-end test automation using Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, or similar frameworks
- Familiarity with data collection, parsing, and analysis using Python or similar tools
- Experience working directly with technicians and cross-functional engineering teams to execute integration, troubleshooting, and test activities
What the job involves
- Own software and computer-system integration for radar platforms and test environments, with a focus on system bring-up, configuration validation, deployment readiness, and root-cause debug
- Act as the Integration and Test team's primary systems-focused engineer for Linux, networking, platform configuration, and software deployment workflows
- Support lab, production, and field integration efforts by ensuring radar systems, support equipment, and test infrastructure are configured correctly and can be debugged quickly when issues arise
- Lead software and platform bring-up activities for radar systems, support equipment, and test racks
- Validate end-to-end system configuration across BIOS, storage, Linux services, networking, time sync, container/runtime environments, and deployment tooling
- Troubleshoot and root-cause integration failures involving system configuration, operating system setup, services, permissions, network connectivity, routing, switch configuration, and software deployment
- Debug issues such as incorrect BIOS settings, RAID misconfiguration, Linux service failures, Docker context or permission issues, Azure CLI setup problems, and broken software deployment pipelines
- Own configuration and validation of Linux timing and synchronization services, including chrony, linuxptp, timemaster and related system dependencies
- Support deployment and validation of software configuration stacks, including templated/config-as-code workflows such as Jsonnet-based builds
- Configure and troubleshoot Layer 2/Layer 3 networking for lab and system test environments, including host networking, VLANs, routing, firewall rules, and managed switch setup
- Stand up and maintain new test racks and STE environments, including computer systems, networking hardware, timing hardware, and test support infrastructure
- Develop scripts, tools, checklists, and automated validation workflows to quickly identify incorrect system configuration before formal test execution
- Partner with systems, software, firmware, RF, and hardware engineers to isolate faults across subsystem boundaries and drive issues to closure
- Help design, implement, and execute automated test workflows for radar and RF system verification
- Develop and maintain automated UI/end-to-end tests for the radar's on-device web interfaces — exercising all pages and components after software deployment to validate that the UI renders correctly, controls behave as expected, and data flows through to the backend (e.g., browser-driven test frameworks such as Playwright, Selenium, or Cypress)
- Develop and document repeatable integration procedures, debug guides, and test instructions so technicians and engineers can perform setup and troubleshooting consistently
- Support lab and field test events as needed to ensure radar systems are ready for execution and data collection
- Work 4-5 days per week out of our office in Los Angeles (Hawthorne), California
Our take
In the modern world, defence industries must meet ever-evolving threats through new technologies, meaning that forward-thinking is the crux of battling sophisticated threats. CHAOS Industries consists of engineers and researchers building the next generation of defence and critical industry technologies.
Its products to date include the CHAOS Coherent Distributed Network, a time synchronicity platform, and HYDRA that facilitates land, sea and air-based detection and communications. Easy to integrate into existing defence systems, HYDRA can be deployed into challenging warfare environments - providing unique solutions for US defence industries.
In the face of a highly complex threat landscape, it’s unsurprising that CHAOS has received considerable funding. This will support the company’s commercial growth and product development. It also hired a former congressman and ex-CIA veteran as its Chief Strategy Officer, exemplifying its alignment with key defence sectors in the US.
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Company
Company benefits
- Medical, dental and vision benefits will be 100% paid for by the company
- Life, FSA, HSA, 401k (+ Company match), and more
- Free daily lunch, ‘No meeting Fridays’, unlimited PTO (for exempt employees), casual dress code
- Generous pre-IPO stock option grants, relocation assistance + (coming soon!) annual bonuses
Company HQ
Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, CA
Leadership
Bo Marr
(Co-CEO, CTO & Co-founder)Previously on the Board of Directors at Epirus, Technical Director at Raytheon and studied a PhD at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Brett Cummings
(CFO & Co-founder)Is also an Advisor at Next Play Capital. Previously a CFO at United Cities North America, Senior Advisor at Formation 8 and 8VC.
John Tenet
(Co-CEO & Co-founder)Also Co-Founder at Epirus. Previously Partner at 8VC, Principal at Valar Ventures and an Associate at Allen & Company.
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