Chaos Industries
Data Scientist
$150K–$170K
San Francisco, California, United States · Full-time · Posted Aug 17, 2026
- Experience
- 2+ years of professional software development experience.
- Education
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, Machine Learning, Applied Mathematics, Physics, or a related technical field.
About the job
Develops and deploys AI/ML capabilities for defense-focused products, turning research and prototypes into reliable production software.
What you'll do
- Build AI systems, including model integration, inference services, evaluation pipelines, and production capabilities.
- Evaluate and improve models under operational conditions, including adversarial, edge, degraded, or noisy environments.
- Develop production software for data pipelines, model serving, monitoring, lifecycle management, and system integration.
What they ask for
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, Machine Learning, Applied Mathematics, Physics, or a related technical field.
- 2+ years of professional software development experience.
- Strong Python programming skills.
- Experience building, testing, deploying, and supporting production software systems; AI/ML model integration, serving, or lifecycle management; and model evaluation or reliability practices.
Nice to have
- Experience with RF signal processing, picture or video processing, AI agents, computer vision, robotics, sensor fusion, or autonomous systems.
- Experience in aerospace, defense, critical infrastructure, or other mission-critical environments; familiarity with edge deployment or hardware-constrained systems.
Pay
$150k-170k USD base salary
Tools
Python, APIs, distributed systems, containers, CI/CD, GPU
AI focus
Applied AI/ML research, model integration and deployment, evaluation, robustness, observability, and productionization for defense applications.
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