Technical Lead - Palantir

CHAOS Industries; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Benefits

401k with company match

Free daily lunch

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

CHAOS Industries is seeking a talented Software Engineer to join their innovative team in San Francisco. This role involves designing and building data pipelines using Palantir Foundry, collaborating across teams to enhance data workflows, and mentoring junior engineers.

The ideal candidate should have at least 2 years of experience in object-oriented software development and familiarity with tools like Python and SQL. CHAOS offers comprehensive health benefits and competitive salaries, with a range from $130,000 to $220,000.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2+ years of experience in professional, object-oriented software development.
• Experience building, testing, and supporting major systems in production.
• Experience building or maintaining data pipelines or workflows in enterprise data platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design and build Foundry-based pipelines and workflows using operational data.
• Define major parts of the data and backend architecture.
• Collaborate closely with product and hardware engineers to integrate data flows.

Skills

Software Development

Python

SQL

No-SQL Systems

Data Pipelines

Tools

Palantir Foundry

Azure

React

Job description

CHAOS Inc. is a global technology company delivering next generation capabilities to the defense and critical industrial sectors. Founded in 2022 by a seasoned leadership team, CHAOS has quickly become the place where world-class multi-disciplinary engineers come to build mission-critical technologies. CHAOS has a mission-focused culture, dedicated to solving the toughest technical challenges. Its unique agile engineering approach enables rapid prototyping, while deep partnerships with defense and industry ensure real-world solutions.

Role Overview

CHAOS is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Software Engineer to join our team supporting our product engineering. This is a highly collaborative role which will allow you to wear multiple hats and work very closely with our product. As a member of our engineering team, you will also have the opportunity to expand your skillset across our product line.

A key aspect of this role will be leveraging Palantir Foundry as CHAOS's internal data operating platform - building, maintaining, and optimizing end-to-end workflows and pipelines that manage sensor, operational, and enterprise data across the company. You will work across teams to ensure our data infrastructure and workflows are reliable, scalable, and directly enable mission outcomes. This role will be central to delivering the CHAOS Operating System in Foundry - a unified data backbone that connects engineering, operations, and manufacturing.

Responsibilities

• Design and build Foundry-based pipelines and workflows, enabling ingestion, transformation, and delivery of data for both engineering and operational users
• Define major parts of our data and backend architecture, including choice of frameworks and systems
• Build and maintain our data infrastructure, real‑time data processing, data transportation, and backend services
• Collaborate closely with product, system, software, and hardware engineers to integrate data flows into mission workflows
• Mentor other engineers as the team grows, and work with engineering leadership to define longer term roadmaps

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2+ years of experience in professional, object‑oriented software development
• Experience with Python, SQL data warehouses, and no‑SQL systems
• Experience building, testing, and supporting major systems in production
• Experience building or maintaining data pipelines or workflows in Palantir Foundry or other enterprise data platforms

Preferred Requirements

• Experience with Palantir Foundry
• Familiarity with Azure or other cloud platforms
• Experience with 2D and 3D Visualization ideally in defense use cases
• Experience with additional frameworks such as React

Benefits

• Health Benefits: Your medical, dental and vision benefits will be 100% paid for by the company
• Additional benefits: life, FSA, HSA, 401k (+ Company match), 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 + (coming soon!) annual bonuses
• Company Size: 150 employees and counting!

Salary Range

Salary Range: $130,000 - $220,000

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 work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations.

As set forth in CHAOS Industries’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.