Technical Lead - Palantir

About Us

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. We have a mission-focused culture, dedicated to solving the toughest technical challenges. Our unique agile engineering approach enables rapid prototyping, while deep partnerships with defense and industry ensure real-world solutions.

About the Role

CHAOS is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Software Engineer to join our team supporting product engineering. This is a highly collaborative role where you will wear multiple hats and work closely with our product. As a member of our engineering team, you will 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
• Work 3+ days per week out of our office in San Francisco (Market Street) or Los Angeles (Hawthorne)

Requirements

• Minimum of 2+ years of experience in professional, object-oriented software development
• Experience with Python, SQL data warehouses, and NoSQL 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 Qualifications

• 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

• 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Additional benefits: life insurance, FSA, HSA, 401k (with company match)
• Free daily lunch
• ‘No meeting Fridays’
• Unlimited PTO
• Casual dress code
• Relocation assistance

Pay

The salary range for this role is $130,000 - $220,000. The stated compensation range reflects only the targeted base compensation and excludes additional earnings such as bonus, equity, and benefits. Actual salary offer may vary based on work experience, education, training, critical skills, and business considerations.

Compensation Components

• Competitive base salaries
• Generous pre-IPO stock option grants
• Annual bonuses (coming soon)