Applied AI Engineer for Edge Defense Systems

CHAOS Industries; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401k match

Free daily lunch

No meeting Fridays

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

CHAOS Industries in San Francisco seeks an Applied AI Engineer to develop, integrate, and deploy AI/ML capabilities across product lines. You will work closely with data scientists, software engineers, product teams, and mission stakeholders to conduct advanced AI research and turn them into reliable, real-world software.

The work will focus especially on defense applications where the systems must perform with extreme accuracy under constrained, adversarial, and operationally complex

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, Machine Learning, Applied Mathematics, Physics, or a related technical 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.
• Experience with model evaluation, benchmarking, robustness testing, interpretability, or ML observability.
• Familiarity with APIs, distributed systems, containers, CI/CD, observability, and edge deployment environments/GPU optimization
• Excited to learn unfamiliar technical domains

Responsibilities

• Build applied AI systems across CHAOS product lines, including model integration, inference services, evaluation pipelines, and production-facing AI capabilities
• Perform research and build products by working with product and mission teams to research, collect data, verify hypothesis and create robust, testable, maintainable, and deployable models
• Evaluate and improve model performance under real-world conditions, including adversarial GPS denied environments, low-power or edge deployments, and degraded or noisy 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, other relevant stakeholders and iterate toward production-ready implementations.
• Contribute to AI system reliability, by conducting testing, benchmarking, observability, interpretability, failure analysis, and performance optimization.
• Learn quickly from existing codebases, documentation, research artifacts, and domain experts, then use that knowledge to drive execution.
• Manage time effectively across meetings, technical discovery, implementation, experimentation, and production support.

Skills

Python

Software development

AI/ML model integration

CI/CD

Edge deployment

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

REST APIs

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

CHAOS Industries in San Francisco seeks an Applied AI Engineer to develop, integrate, and deploy AI/ML capabilities across product lines. You will work closely with data scientists, software engineers, product teams, and mission stakeholders to conduct advanced AI research and turn them into reliable, real-world software.

The work will focus especially on defense applications where the systems must perform with extreme accuracy under constrained, adversarial, and operationally complex