# Guidance Software Engineer at Chaos

- Company: Chaos
- What the company does: CHAOS Industries builds a multi-product portfolio powered by Coherent Distributed Networks (CDN TM), giving military, commercial, and border teams the ultimate advantage: domain dominance. Backed by Accel and NEA.
- Company website: https://chaosinc.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: El Segundo, California, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $160K to $280K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-14
- Apply by: 2026-11-28
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/chaosindustries/jobs/5265657007?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/chaos-guidance-software-engineer-2/

## About the role

CHAOS is seeking a highly-skilled and motivated Senior Guidance Software Engineer to join our R&D team. You will get an opportunity to lead the design of our guidance software on a clean sheet airframe design. As a member of Engineering, you also have the opportunity to expand your skillset across our product families. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Minimum education: Bachelor’s or higher Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or related degree
- 10+ years of experience in professional, object-oriented software development
- Experience with design and implementation of guidance algorithms for UAS platforms using commercial autopilot frameworks like ArduPilot
- Practical understanding of flight dynamics of fixed wing and rotary wing platforms
- Solid understanding and extensive experience in software development on microcontroller architectures (STM32 or similar) and on Linux hosted on Nvidia Jetson, AMD/Xilinx SoC or Microblaze architectures
- Experience developing real-time embedded software to include hardware interfaces

Tags: Engineering

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/chaos-guidance-software-engineer-2/