CHAOS Industries
0 open Forward Deployed Engineer roles at CHAOS Industries, plus 1 closed. Curated with comp bands.
On the board since Jul 2026 · no roles open right now
Our take
Why CHAOS Industries
A $1B-funded defense company betting that clearance eligibility plus RF curiosity beats seniority — the widest experience-to-comp gap on the board.
- FDE type
- True forward-deployed
- Travel
- Medium
- Comp
- Equity-heavy
- Stage
- Late-stage
A good fit if you're…
- Early-career engineers who can get cleared and want field-hardware work
- People drawn to RF / sensing / defense hardware over pure software
- Those who weight pre-IPO equity and on-site mission work
What they do
CHAOS Industries (founded 2022, ~$1B raised) builds RF and sensing systems for UAS surveillance and integrated air-and-missile defense. The Field Engineering team is where its capabilities meet real deployments.
What “forward deployed” means here
FDEs test, deploy, and troubleshoot RF systems in the field, integrate edge-sensor data into customer systems, and write software bridging CHAOS capabilities to mission needs (Python/TypeScript). It is hands-on, on-site true-FDE work — hardware-adjacent, not a laptop-in-a-conference-room deployment.
Comp & leveling
Posted at $140K–$240K base plus pre-IPO stock options in El Segundo, requiring only 'at least one year' of relevant experience and a clearance or eligibility. That minimal-experience floor against a $240K ceiling is the widest such gap on the board — CHAOS is pricing clearance and RF aptitude as scarcer than tenure.
Growth signals
Roughly a billion dollars of funding behind a four-year-old defense company, plus pre-IPO option grants, point to a late-stage scale-up with a plausible liquidity path. The risk profile is classic defense hardware: program-dependent, capital-intensive, and slower than software to compound.
Analysis updated 2026-09-21
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