CHAOS Industries

Defense

TechnicalLead

$130–220k Los Angeles, California, United States; San Francisco, California, United States
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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optimal for Lead candidates.

The Brief

“Technical Lead at CHAOS Industries. Skills: Palantir Foundry, Data pipelines, Backend architecture. Design Foundry-based pipelines. Build Foundry-based pipelines”

Industry & Context.

Defense
Eligibility Requirements

3+ days per week in office

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

2+ years object-oriented development, Experience with Python, Experience with SQL data warehouses, Experience with no-SQL systems, Experience building systems in production, Experience maintaining data pipelines, Experience maintaining workflows in Palantir Foundry

Nice to Have

Experience with Palantir Foundry, Familiarity with Azure, Familiarity with cloud platforms, Experience with 2D Visualization, Experience with 3D Visualization, Experience in defense use cases

What You'll Do.

Design Foundry-based pipelines

Build Foundry-based pipelines

Enable data ingestion

Enable data transformation

Define data architecture

Define backend architecture

Build data infrastructure

Maintain data infrastructure

Build real-time data processing

Maintain real-time data processing

Build data transportation

Maintain data transportation

Build backend services

Maintain backend services

Collaborate with product engineers

Collaborate with system engineers

Collaborate with software engineers

Collaborate with hardware engineers

Mentor other engineers

Define longer term roadmaps

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Cross-functional teams; Engineering leadership

Process & Methodology

Roadmaps

Full Job Description

CHAOS Inc. is a global technology company delivering next-generation capabilities to the defense and critical industrial sectors. Founded in 2022 by a seasoned leadership team, CHAOS has quickly become the place where world-class multi-disciplinary engineers come to build mission-critical technologies. CHAOS has a mission-focused culture, dedicated to solving the toughest technical challenges. Its unique agile engineering approach enables rapid prototyping, while deep partnerships with defense and industry ensure real-world solutions. Role Overview CHAOS is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Software Engineer to join our team supporting our product engineering. This is a highly collaborative role which will allow you to wear multiple hats and work very closely with our product. As a member of our engineering team, you will also have the opportunity to expand your skillset across our product line. A key aspect of this role will be leveraging Palantir Foundry as CHAOS's internal data operating platform - building, maintaining, and optimizing end-to-end workflows and pipelines that manage sensor, operational, and enterprise data across the company. You will work across teams to ensure our data infrastructure and workflows are reliable, scalable, and directly enable mission outcomes. This role will be central to delivering the CHAOS Operating System in Foundry - a unified data backbone that connects engineering, operations, and manufacturing. Responsibilities • Design and build Foundry-based pipelines and workflows, enabling ingestion, transformation, and delivery of data for both engineering and operational users • Define major parts of our data and backend architecture, including choice of frameworks and systems • Build and maintain our data infrastructure, real-time data processing, data transportation, and backend services • Collaborate closely with product, system, software, and hardware engineers to integrate data flows into mission workflows • Mentor other en

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