Senior Data Scientist, Mission Engineering

Chaos Industries; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401k match

FSA/HSA

Life insurance

Free daily lunch

Unlimited PTO

Relocation assistance

Job summary

CHAOS Industries is redefining defense analytics with Mission Engineering; you will own statistical methodology, design experiments, and build scalable analysis pipelines to support warfighters and partners. Collaboration with engineers and threat SMEs is essential to deliver rigorous, reproducible results that inform decisions.

The role emphasizes quantitative rigor, data visualization, and communication to senior technical and non-technical audiences, with opportunities to shape standards from

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Statistics, Data Science, Mathematics, AI, or related quantitative field.
• 7+ years applying advanced statistical and data science methods, preferably in defense or advanced tech programs.
• Deep working expertise in experimental design, regression and Bayesian methods, UQ, and surrogate modeling.

Responsibilities

• Design rigorous experimental constructs (DOE, space-filling, adaptive sampling) for large-scale simulations.
• Apply advanced statistical methods to simulation output to produce decision-quality conclusions.
• Build and own Python-based data pipelines for ingestion, processing, analysis, and visualization of large datasets.
• Develop ML and statistical surrogate models to accelerate analysis and support mission planning.
• Set team standards for data management, reproducibility, and rigorous methodology.

Skills

DOE

Bayesian methods

Python

Data visualization

Statistical methodology

Surrogate modeling

Experiment design

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Statistics / Data Science / Math or related field

Master's or PhD in Statistics / Data Science / Math or related field

Tools

Python (Pandas, NumPy, SciPy, Scikit-Learn)

MATLAB or R

PyMC, TensorFlow / PyTorch

Matplotlib / Seaborn

CuPy

Job description

CHAOS Industries is redefining defense analytics with Mission Engineering; you will own statistical methodology, design experiments, and build scalable analysis pipelines to support warfighters and partners. Collaboration with engineers and threat SMEs is essential to deliver rigorous, reproducible results that inform decisions.

The role emphasizes quantitative rigor, data visualization, and communication to senior technical and non-technical audiences, with opportunities to shape standards from