Chaos Industries
Chief Engineer, Electronic Warfare Payload
$220K–$300K
El Segundo, California, United States +1 · Full-time · Posted Oct 7, 2026
- Location
- El Segundo, California, United States
Los Angeles, California, United States - Experience
- 15+ years.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Aerospace, Mechanical, Systems, or Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
About the job
Own the technical direction and lifecycle delivery of an electronic warfare payload, from architecture through testing, production transition, and fielding.
What you'll do
- Lead payload architecture, requirements, design reviews, technical risk management, and multidisciplinary engineering teams.
- Direct subsystem and platform integration, verification and validation, and field-test readiness.
- Drive configuration control and prototype-to-production transition, partnering with program management, manufacturing, and customers.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Aerospace, Mechanical, Systems, or Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- Detailed experience with EW, radar, or RF sensing and signal processing systems, including technical leadership of a program or major subsystem.
- Hands-on EW verification, validation, field and operational testing, and lifecycle development of a high-TRL RF system through field or flight test.
- Current or recent DoD SECRET clearance; strong command of RF systems engineering, digital signal processing, and DoD safety, environmental, and test standards.
Nice to have
- Master's degree or higher; current or recent DoD TOP SECRET clearance and eligibility for SAP and/or SCI indoc.
- Experience with SDR, FPGA-based signal processing, RF/digital co-design, or airborne small form-factor EW systems.
Pay
$220,000 - $300,000 USD base salary
Tools
RF, digital signal processing, firmware, software, SDR, FPGA, DoD standards
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