Director, Electrical Engineering

CHAOS Industries is redefining modern defense with a multi-product portfolio that gives the ultimate advantagedomain dominance. The companys products are powered by Coherent Distributed Networks (CDN) empowering warfighters commercial air operators and border protection teams to act faster adapt rapidly and stay ahead of evolving threats.

CHAOS Industries was founded in 2022 and has raised a total of $1 billion in funding from leading investors including 8VC Accel and Valor Equity Partners. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles with offices in Washington D.C. San Francisco San Diego Seattle and London. For more information please visit .

Role Overview:

CHAOS is seeking a Director of Electrical Engineering to build and lead the electrical engineering organization responsible for power analog mixed-signal and digital electronics across RF sensors and avionics systems. You will lead the development of mission-critical hardware from concept and architecture through qualification production field deployment and sustainment.

The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise in at least one electrical engineering discipline with sufficient breadth to lead complex high-reliability electronics development across these disciplines. You will recruit and develop a rapidly growing team establish engineering standards and operating practices allocate resources across programs and ensure the organization delivers technically rigorous hardware on schedule. You will lead from the front personally addressing critical technical challenges while building the team and technical leadership needed to support continued growth.

This is a full-time on-site position in El Segundo CA.

Responsibilities:

• Build lead and develop a rapidly growing team of power analog mixed-signal and digital electrical engineers

• Define the organizations hiring plan technical capabilities engineering standards and design review practices

• Plan staffing priorities schedules and resource allocation across programs

• Lead the development of electronic system architectures and associated trade studies to meet performance SWaP-C manufacturability reliability schedule and qualification requirements

• Provide technical leadership across high-speed digital analog and mixed-signal electronics power conversion and distribution PCB design signal and power integrity and EMI/EMC

• Resolve complex cross-disciplinary issues involving electrical hardware FPGA and embedded software interfaces RF circuits thermal design mechanical packaging manufacturing and test

• Lead hardware integration verification qualification transition to rate production failure investigation and field support

• Serve as the senior electrical engineering representative to program leadership customers suppliers and manufacturing partners

• Remain hands-on and personally contribute to critical architecture design integration and troubleshooting activities as needed

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering with 15 years of relevant engineering experience

• Experience leading and developing engineering teams responsible for complex high-reliability electronics

• Background developing electronics for aerospace defense radar electronic warfare missile space or similarly demanding applications

• Deep expertise in at least one electrical engineering discipline with sufficient breadth to lead high-speed digital analog and mixed-signal and power electronics development

• Experience developing complex electronic systems incorporating technologies such as FPGAs processors memory data converters high-speed interfaces power conversion and analog signal chains

• Strong knowledge of PCB design component selection signal and power integrity grounding EMI/EMC derating and design for manufacturability

• Experience leading hardware from architecture and detailed design through bring-up integration qualification production and failure investigation

• Familiarity with applicable aerospace standards including MIL-STD-461 MIL-STD-810 MIL-STD-1275 and RTCA/DO-160

• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance

Preferred Requirements:

• Advanced degree in Electrical Engineering or a related discipline

• Experience building or rapidly scaling an electrical engineering team

• Experience developing avionics or RF sensor electronics

• Experience with signal-integrity or power-integrity analysis tools such as HyperLynx Sigrity ADS Ansys SIwave or equivalent

• Experience with interfaces such as DDR PCIe Ethernet JESD204 SERDES and LVDS in high-reliability systems

• Experience establishing reusable architectures design standards analysis templates qualification approaches or technical review processes

• Experience managing external design partners PCB fabrication and assembly suppliers or other critical electronics suppliers

Why CHAOS

• Health Benefits: Medical dental and vision benefits 100% paid for by the company
• Additional benefits: 401k ( 50% company match up to 6% of pay) FSA HSA life insurance and more
• Our Perks: Free daily lunch No meeting Fridays unlimited PTO casual dress code
• Compensation Components: Competitive base salaries generous pre-IPO stock option grants relocation assistance and (coming soon!) annual bonuses
• Team Growth: 350 employees and counting across 5 global offices

The stated compensation range reflects only the targeted base compensation range and excludes additional earnings such as bonus equity and benefits. If your compensation requirements fall outside of the range we still encourage you to apply. The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a range of compensation factors inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience education and/or training critical skills and/or business considerations.

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