Job description
Job details
- Location: San Francisco, California
- Work mode: Onsite
- Employment type: Full-time (Not an internship)
- Salary: USD 150,000 - 170,000 per year
Role overview
CHAOS Industries is hiring a Software Engineer, Applied AI to join their team in San Francisco, California. This full-time, onsite position offers a competitive salary range of 170,000 USD and focuses on building AI-powered systems that support defense and commercial applications. The role requires strong software engineering skills combined with practical AI/ML experience to develop cutting-edge solutions for warfighters, air operators, and border protection teams.
Job details
This is a full-time, onsite position based in San Francisco, California. The salary range is 170,000 USD. You will work on applied AI systems that power CHAOS Industries' Coherent Distributed Networks (CDN™) platform, enabling rapid decision-making and threat response across defense and commercial domains.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement AI/ML models for defense and commercial applications
- Build scalable applied AI systems integrated with CDN™ platform
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deploy production ML solutions
- Optimize model performance and inference latency for real-time systems
- Research and prototype emerging AI techniques for domain dominance
Requirements
- 2-4 years of software engineering experience with AI/ML focus
- Strong proficiency in Python and ML frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch)
- Experience deploying production machine learning systems at scale
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, AI, or related field
- Ability to obtain security clearance for defense projects
Benefits
- Competitive salary $150K-$170K USD
- Equity in a $1B funded defense tech startup
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Work on cutting-edge AI for national security