Jobs at Chaos Industries

Designs, prototypes, tests, integrates, and supports high-reliability RF and microwave hardware for aerospace and defense systems. Responsibilities include RF architecture, component trade studies, circuit-board design, simulation, lab and field testing, troubleshooting, PCB layout, production support, failure analysis, and system integration. The role is hands-on, full-time, and on-site in Hawthorne, California, requiring collaboration across systems, power, digital, mechanical, and software engineering teams.

Designs, prototypes, tests, integrates, and troubleshoots RF and microwave electronics for aerospace and defense systems. Responsibilities span architecture, component trade studies, RF circuit-board design, simulation, PCB layout, lab and field experimentation, production support, failure analysis, and sustainment. The role requires hands-on RF measurement expertise, cross-functional collaboration, and the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance. This is a full-time, on-site position in Hawthorne, California.

Designs, prototypes, tests, integrates, and troubleshoots RF and microwave hardware for aerospace and defense systems. Responsibilities span architecture, component trade studies, RF circuit-board design, simulation, PCB layout, laboratory and field testing, failure analysis, production support, and system integration. The role collaborates across electrical, systems, software, mechanical, and power engineering teams while supporting mission-critical hardware throughout its lifecycle.

Leads the end-to-end design and development of high-reliability power and analog electronics for aerospace and defense systems. Responsibilities include architecture trades, circuit schematics and simulation, PCB layout guidance, EMI/EMC mitigation, design analysis, thermal and failure assessment, board bring-up, verification, qualification, production transition, and field support. The engineer coordinates across RF, digital, software, mechanical, manufacturing, and test teams while resolving complex technical issues independently.

Serves as the technical authority for power electronics and analog board design supporting aerospace and defense systems. Leads architecture, circuit design, simulation, PCB strategy, EMI/EMC mitigation, design analysis, verification, qualification, production transition, failure analysis, and field support. Establishes engineering practices, resolves complex cross-disciplinary hardware issues, sets technical direction, and mentors engineers across multiple programs.

Leads and scales the electrical engineering organization developing high-reliability power, analog, mixed-signal, and digital electronics for RF sensors and avionics. Oversees architecture, design, integration, qualification, production, field support, and failure investigation. Establishes engineering standards, review practices, staffing plans, and resource allocation while resolving complex hardware, FPGA, RF, thermal, mechanical, manufacturing, and test issues. Requires hands-on technical leadership, team development, customer and supplier engagement, and experience with aerospace or defense electronics.

Manages classified and unclassified engineering laboratories, test areas, shops, equipment, facilities, budgets, suppliers, calibration, maintenance, security, safety, and readiness. Coordinates with engineering, IT, facilities, security, contractors, and service providers while supporting hardware development, testing, integration, qualification, field-test preparation, and production transition. Establishes operating procedures, maintains asset records, manages improvements, and provides laboratory training. This is a full-time, on-site role in El Segundo, California.

Leads mechanical design and integration for air-launched and ground-launched aerospace vehicles, including airframes, control surfaces, structures, mechanisms, and support hardware. Develops CAD models, drawings, analyses, and verification documentation; performs trade studies; supports manufacturing, integration, qualification, flight testing, production, and fielding. Collaborates across engineering and manufacturing teams, resolves hardware integration challenges, leads design reviews, and mentors junior engineers.

Leads mechanical design, packaging, integration, analysis, qualification, and production transition for ruggedized 3U and 6U VPX electronic hardware. Designs chassis, card cages, backplanes, interfaces, cooling solutions, and related assemblies using CAD and applicable VITA/OpenVPX standards. Produces production drawings and documentation, supports structural and thermal analyses, collaborates across engineering and manufacturing teams, and contributes to prototyping, environmental testing, fielding, and sustainment.

Leads architecture, design, analysis, verification, production transition, and sustainment of high-speed digital circuit cards and subsystems for aerospace and military applications. Oversees PCB layout strategy, signal and power integrity, FPGA and processor interfaces, EMI/EMC, qualification, troubleshooting, and failure analysis. Provides technical leadership across multidisciplinary teams, interfaces with customers and suppliers, establishes design practices, and mentors engineers.

Leads U.S. customer mission execution for military and commercial defense engagements. Translates customer needs into requirements, coordinates site surveys and assessments, delivers training, manages demonstrations and operational exercises, and guides post-award implementation. Acts as the bridge between customers, engineering, product management, and leadership while supporting field deployments. Requires hands-on hardware work, extensive travel, operational flexibility, strong communication, and an active security clearance or ability to obtain one.

Design, develop, integrate, test, and qualify ruggedized sensor systems, avionics, electronic hardware, enclosures, structures, mechanisms, and thermal solutions for aerospace and defense applications. Create CAD models and production documentation, perform structural and thermal analyses, support prototyping and qualification, resolve multidisciplinary integration issues, and contribute to manufacturing, configuration control, fielding, and sustainment.

Designs, integrates, analyzes, prototypes, qualifies, and supports production of ruggedized mechanical systems, avionics, sensor hardware, structures, enclosures, mechanisms, and thermal solutions for aerospace and defense applications. Owns subsystem designs, CAD models, drawings, trade studies, requirements verification, environmental testing, integration, configuration control, and field sustainment. Collaborates across engineering, manufacturing, suppliers, and customers while mentoring junior engineers.

Serves as the mechanical technical authority for ruggedized sensor systems, avionics, electronic hardware, and aerospace defense products. Leads mechanical architecture, CAD design, packaging, integration, structural and thermal analysis, prototyping, qualification, production transition, and sustainment. Resolves complex cross-disciplinary issues, manages interfaces and documentation, supports make-or-buy decisions, and mentors engineers. The role is onsite in El Segundo, California and requires the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.

Leads mechanical design, integration, analysis, qualification, and sustainment of ruggedized electronic hardware, sensor systems, avionics, structures, and mechanisms for aerospace and defense applications. Develops CAD models, drawings, documentation, architectures, and interface controls; supports prototyping, manufacturing transition, testing, troubleshooting, and fielded systems. Collaborates with multidisciplinary teams, customers, suppliers, and manufacturing partners while mentoring engineers and ensuring compliance with structural, thermal, environmental, and military requirements.

Manage the full subcontract lifecycle for major defense procurements, ensuring FAR/DFARS compliance, CPSR-ready purchasing systems, cost/price analysis, flowdowns, supplier onboarding and risk management, and establish scalable subcontracting policies and audit-ready files.

Owns the technical performance, validation, resilience, and regulatory authorization of communications systems including RF, SATCOM, cellular, fiber, tactical radios, and mesh networks. Designs link budgets and failover architectures, troubleshoots deployments, evaluates emerging technologies, researches country-specific spectrum and certification requirements, and coordinates export controls, customs, licensing, and diplomatic approvals. Supports domestic and international defense demonstrations and deliveries, with 30–50% travel to customer, test, and partner sites.

Own the architecture, technical strategy, and production deployment of autonomy software for distributed defense systems. Lead development of sensor fusion, world modeling, mission planning, task allocation, real-time decision-making, simulation, and evaluation pipelines for resource-constrained field hardware. Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, establish safety and testing standards, and translate operator needs into reliable autonomy capabilities from prototype through deployment.

Owns communications connectivity systems spanning 5G, SATCOM, point-to-point wireless, and tactical mesh networks. Responsibilities include requirements and architecture development, trade studies, RF and link analysis, hardware selection and qualification, integration and verification testing, deployment readiness, configuration baselines, and field support. The role also evaluates emerging communications technologies, collaborates with suppliers and cross-functional teams, and supports international deployments. It is full-time onsite in Hawthorne, California, with occasional travel.

Leads company-wide data governance, lifecycle management, quality, lineage, security, and access controls. Partners with Foundry engineering to align ingestion, ETL, modeling, validation, monitoring, and analytical datasets with business needs. Oversees field data operations for test events, including sensor data capture, metadata, labeling, logistics, validation, reconciliation, and availability. Builds and manages governance and operations teams, establishes operating procedures and metrics, supports test sites, and travels regularly to company locations and test events.