# Staff Engineering Laboratory Manager 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: Senior
- Location: El Segundo, California, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $184K to $231K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-21
- Apply by: 2026-11-05
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/chaosindustries/jobs/5243188007
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/chaos-staff-engineering-laboratory-manager/

## About the role

CHAOS is seeking a Staff Engineering Laboratory Manager to own the day-to-day operation, readiness, security, and continuous improvement of the company’s engineering laboratories. These laboratories support the development, integration, verification, and fielding of advanced aerospace and defense systems, including RF sensors, electronics, mechanical systems, effectors, and ruggedized hardware.

## What they're looking for

- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, engineering technology, facilities management, laboratory management, operations, or a related technical field, equivalent practical experience may be considered
- Five or more years of experience managing engineering laboratories, test facilities, research facilities, manufacturing-support areas, or comparable technical environments
- Experience managing laboratory equipment, asset inventories, calibration programs, maintenance activities, facility repairs, contractors, and service providers
- Experience supporting hardware development, test, manufacturing, aerospace, defense, or research organizations
- Strong organizational, prioritization, problem-solving, and communication skills, with the ability to manage changing priorities and multiple concurrent activities
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office or comparable tools, experience with asset-management, maintenance-management, calibration-management, or facilities-management software is desirable

Tags: Engineering