CHAOS Industries · 2 months ago
Principal Software Engineer, Applied AI
San Francisco, California, United States
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$200K/yr - $270K/yr
8+ years expCHAOS Inc. is a global technology company dedicated to delivering advanced capabilities to the defense and critical industrial sectors. They are looking for a highly motivated Principal Software Engineer, Applied AI to drive the development and deployment of AI/ML-powered capabilities, ensuring that advanced AI research translates into real-world applications, particularly in defense scenarios.
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Responsibilities
Learn: Quickly come up to speed browsing existing code and documentation. Be motivated to learn unfamiliar subjects and drive your own learning needs. Continuously keep up with industry trends
Productization: Ensure our AI models are robust, interpretable, testable, and performant under real-world conditions—especially in adversarial, low-power, GPS-Denied and/or edge-deployed environments. You must have an incredible eye to detail and be able to make tradeoffs keeping business interests in mind
Qualification
Required
BS or MS or PhD in Comp Sc/ Electrical/ Electronic Engineering or equivalent professional experience
8 - 15+ years of hands-on experience covering Data Science, data engineering, setting up model building and inferencing pipelines and using data science to solve real business and other problems
Experience leading small teams of junior engineers or mentoring them is required
Must have excellent communication and be comfortable in presenting your ideas to various stakeholders including customers
The candidate should be comfortable working with distributed teams, partners, customers and other stakeholders to learn the requirements, come up with a proposal for a solution, rapidly develop prototypes and finally perhaps implement and roll them out eventually to production with low oversight
Preferred
Experience building agents using contemporary frameworks (e.g. Langchain etc.)
Experience with libraries like PyTorch, TensorFlow/TensorRT, streaming image classification or arbitrary or targeted shape detection in point clouds (Radar / Lidar) are going to be highly valuable
Any experience with Analog or Digital RF signal processing will make you standout (although not required)
Committer to one or more open-source projects (not a requirement)
Benefits
Your medical, dental and vision benefits will be 100% paid for by the company
Life
FSA
HSA
401k (+ Company match)
Free daily lunch
No meeting Fridays
Unlimited PTO
Casual dress code
Competitive base salaries
Generous pre-IPO stock option grants
Relocation assistance
Annual bonuses
Company
CHAOS Industries
CHAOS Industries is redefining modern defense with omniscient systems that give the ultimate advantage—domain dominance.
51-200 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$1BKey Investors
Valor Equity PartnersAccel8VC
2025-11-13Series D· $510M
2025-04-30Series C· $275M
2024-11-13Series B· $145M
Leadership Team
Bo Marr
Co-founder, co-CEO, CTO of Chaos Industries
John Tenet
Founder & CEO
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