Director, Electrical Engineering

CHAOS Industries is redefining modern defense with a multi-product portfolio that gives the ultimate advantage—domain dominance. The company's products are powered by Coherent Distributed Networks (CDN™), empowering warfighters, commercial air operators, and border protection teams to act faster, adapt rapidly, and stay ahead of evolving threats.
CHAOS Industries was founded in 2022 and has raised a total of $1 billion in funding from leading investors, including 8VC, Accel, and Valor Equity Partners. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, with offices in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, and London. For more information, please visit www.chaosinc.com.
Role Overview:
CHAOS is seeking a Director of Electrical Engineering to build and lead the electrical engineering organization responsible for power, analog, mixed-signal, and digital electronics across RF sensors and avionics systems. You will lead the development of mission-critical hardware from concept and architecture through qualification, production, field deployment, and sustainment.
The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise in at least one electrical engineering discipline with sufficient breadth to lead complex, high-reliability electronics development across these disciplines. You will recruit and develop a rapidly growing team, establish engineering standards and operating practices, allocate resources across programs, and ensure the organization delivers technically rigorous hardware on schedule. You will lead from the front, personally addressing critical technical challenges while building the team and technical leadership needed to support continued growth.
This is a full-time, on-site position in El Segundo, CA.
Responsibilities:
Build, lead, and develop a rapidly growing team of power, analog, mixed-signal, and digital electrical engineers
Define the organization’s hiring plan, technical capabilities, engineering standards, and design review practices
Plan staffing, priorities, schedules, and resource allocation across programs
Lead the development of electronic system architectures and associated trade studies to meet performance, SWaP-C, manufacturability, reliability, schedule, and qualification requirements
Provide technical leadership across high-speed digital, analog and mixed-signal electronics, power conversion and distribution, PCB design, signal and power integrity, and EMI/EMC
Resolve complex cross-disciplinary issues involving electrical hardware, FPGA and embedded software interfaces, RF circuits, thermal design, mechanical packaging, manufacturing, and test
Lead hardware integration, verification, qualification, transition to rate production, failure investigation, and field support
Serve as the senior electrical engineering representative to program leadership, customers, suppliers, and manufacturing partners
Remain hands-on and personally contribute to critical architecture, design, integration, and troubleshooting activities as needed
Minimum Requirements: