Hiring: Applied AI Engineer Company: CHAOS Industries Location: San Francisco, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-15 10:29:34 Employment Type: On-site Target Skills & Keywords : CDN, CI/CD, Computer Vision, Data Pipeline, LLM, Machine Learning, Python About the job Experience: •2-5 years of professional software development experience (exceptional fresh grads welcome to apply) •5 years of professional software development experience (exceptional fresh grads welcome to apply) Required Skills: •CHAOS is seeking a highly motivated, mission-oriented Applied AI Engineer to help develop, integrate, and deploy AI/ML-powered capabilities across our product lines. •You should be comfortable operating with independence, learning unfamiliar technical domains quickly, working across disparate teams, and moving prototypes toward production with limited oversight. •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. Qualifications: •US Citizen or Permanent Resident •BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Data Science, Applied Mathematics, Physics, or a related technical field or equivalent experience •Very strong Python programming skills •Operational familiarity with APIs, Distributed systems, Containers, CI/CD, observability, and edge deployment environments/GPU optimization •Excited to learn unfamiliar technical domains •Any experience with realtime digital video processing •Any experience with analog or digital RF signal processing •Any experience with drones, sensor fusion, tracking, or moving-target detection systems Compensation: •$150,000 - $170,000 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!