Radar System Reliability Engineer

CHAOS Industries is redefining modern defense with omniscient systems purpose-built for today’s realities. Designed and built by top U.S. military veterans and Silicon Valley innovators, CHAOS Industries’ 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. In a world where technological threats move at unprecedented speed, CHAOS Industries delivers advanced sensing and detection solutions that give the ultimate advantage: time.

CHAOS Industries was founded in 2022 and has raised $1B in total funding from leading investors including 8VC, Accel, and NEA. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, with offices in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, and London. For more information, please visit www.chaosinc.com.

Role Overview:

• CHAOS is seeking a highly-skilled and motivated Radar System Reliability Engineer to join our team supporting our R&D and product engineering team, overseeing and managing the reliability and maintainability of the products we are developing. This is a highly collaborative role which will allow you to work on multiple capabilities within our product offerings. As a member of our engineering team, you also have the opportunity to expand your skillset across our product families.   

Responsibilities: 

• Identify, evaluate, and mitigate hazards and risks associated with mission critical systems
• Develop System Built in Test (BIT) architecture and design
• Develop reliability models and performing reliability predictions
• Reliability and Maintainability Predictions, Failure Modes, Effects & Criticality Analysis (FMECA), Failure Modes & Effects Analysis (FMEA)
• Responsible for System Hazard Analysis (SHA), System Safety Assessment (SSA), and Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)
• Conduct reliability, supportability and root cause investigations to identify key failure points and/or optimize asset reliability, availability, maintainability, safety and life cycle costs
• Development of maintenance strategies and preventative, predictive, and condition-based maintenance programs
• Establish and maintaining project reliability plans and instructions
• Perform System Safety planning, hazard analyses, and design analyses
• Develop diagnostic tools and procedures

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics) or another related field or equivalent work experience
• 3-5 years of experience in a reliability engineering, failure analysis, or a closely related technical role.
• Strong understanding of reliability principles and methodologies:
• Experience with FMECA analysis, BIT, Root cause analysis and debugging, and/or Systems Safety
• Understanding product life stages, from design and development to testing, production, and eventual retirement
• Experience with RF systems
• Experience and willingness to work in an agile engineering development startup
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for collaborating with cross-functional teams, presenting findings, and documenting process

Preferred Requirements:

• Masters degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics) or another related field or equivalent work experience
• Systems engineering experience with Requirements Development, Design, and/or Integration and Test
• Experience working with defense electronic sensor systems
• Experience working with radar systems
• Proficiency in statistical methods, data analysis, and using statistical software
• Software programming experience (C/C++, Python, Matlab, etc)

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: 200 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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