Chaos Industries
Staff Software Engineer, Sensing Systems
$211K–$290K
El Segundo, California, United States +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026
- Location
- El Segundo, California, United States
Los Angeles, California, United States - Experience
- 8+ years of professional software engineering.
- Education
- Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- U.S. Person status is required because the role requires access to U.S.-only data systems; ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance is required.
About the job
Build software that integrates electro-optical and other sensors, supports development and testing from simulation through real-world field deployments, and enables autonomous testing on hardware.
What you'll do
- Develop sensor-agnostic software, multi-sensor interfaces, and data flows.
- Build simulation, replay, hardware-in-the-loop, and end-to-end test harnesses, including autonomous field testing.
- Deploy, monitor, and troubleshoot software on edge hardware at test and customer sites.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including end-to-end ownership of a production system.
- Strong Python; comfort with Linux, Docker, networking, and CI.
- Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- U.S. Person status; ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.
Nice to have
- Experience with cameras, EO/IR sensors, gimbals, radar, video pipelines, embedded Linux, edge computing, GPU/CUDA, or hardware-in-the-loop testing.
- Robotics, autonomous vehicles, drones, aerospace, simulation, AI agent harnesses, C++ or TypeScript; defense or aerospace experience or a current U.S. security clearance.
Pay
$211,000 - $290,000 USD base salary
Tools
Python, Linux, Docker, GStreamer, DeepStream, NVIDIA Jetson, CUDA, C++
AI focus
Use AI coding tools such as Cursor or Claude Code, and build AI-supported workflows and harnesses for software development and testing; the goal is autonomous end-to-end tests against real hardware.
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