Applied AI Engineer for Defense Tech & Edge ML

Socket.dev; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401k with company match

Relocation assistance

Free daily lunch

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

CHAOS Industries, headquartered in Los Angeles with a San Francisco office, seeks an Applied AI Engineer to turn AI/ML research into reliable production software for defense-focused products. You’ll work with data scientists, software engineers, and mission stakeholders to deploy AI capabilities under adversarial and constrained conditions.

The role emphasizes model integration, deployment, and lifecycle management, with travel 10-20% and on-site work 2 days a week in SF.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, ML, Applied Mathematics, Physics or related field.
• 2+ years of professional software development experience.
• Strong Python programming skills.
• Experience building, testing, deploying, and supporting production software systems.
• Experience with AI/ML model integration, model serving infrastructure, or model lifecycle management.
• Familiarity with APIs, distributed systems, containers, CI/CD, observability, and edge deployment environments/GPU optimization.

Responsibilities

• Build applied AI systems across CHAOS product lines, including model integration, inference services, evaluation pipelines, and production-facing AI capabilities.
• Research and build products by working with product and mission teams to research, collect data, verify hypotheses and create robust, testable models.
• Evaluate and improve model performance under real-world conditions, including adversarial GPS denied environments, low-power or edge deployments, and degraded inputs.
• Develop production-quality software for data pipelines for acquisition, model serving, monitoring, lifecycle management, data processing, and system integration.
• Create rapid prototypes with mission and product teams, iterating toward production-ready implementations.
• Contribute to AI system reliability through testing, benchmarking, observability, interpretability, and performance optimization.
• Learn quickly from existing codebases and domain experts to drive execution.
• Manage time effectively across meetings, technical discovery, implementation, experimentation, and production support.

Skills

Python programming

Software development

AI/ML

Model deployment

Distributed systems

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, ML, Applied Mathematics, Physics

Tools

CI/CD

Containers

GPU optimization

Job description

CHAOS Industries, headquartered in Los Angeles with a San Francisco office, seeks an Applied AI Engineer to turn AI/ML research into reliable production software for defense-focused products. You’ll work with data scientists, software engineers, and mission stakeholders to deploy AI capabilities under adversarial and constrained conditions.

The role emphasizes model integration, deployment, and lifecycle management, with travel 10-20% and on-site work 2 days a week in SF.