CHAOS Industries is redefining modern defense with a multi-product portfolio that provides 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.

CHAOS Inc. is a global technology company that delivers 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 Software Engineer Interns for Summer 2027! This is a paid, in-person, 12-week internship role. You'll write the firmware that runs on our sensor nodes and the software that keeps them synchronized with each other. This is real-time work under real constraints: timing, power, thermal, and radios that don't care about your abstractions.

What you might work on:

• Projects that will include building features to improve the developer experience for CHAOS engineers.
• Projects that would enhance the scalability & reliability of CHAOS platforms.
• Storage and Data Infrastructure.

What We Are Looking For:

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor's degree or Master’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, or a related field.
• Familiarity with data structures, storage systems, cloud infrastructure, front-end frameworks, and other tech tools.
• Working proficiency in programming languages such as C/C++, Java, Python, or JAX.
• Exposure to embedded development through coursework, personal projects, competition teams, or prior internships.
• Willingness to work on hardware.
• You’ve collaborated on the above two things as part of a group - school club, competition team, as part of a job/internship, or just with friends.
• In your application, we'd love to see either a sample of work you're proud of or a short note about your prior experience and how it relates to the three points above.

Why CHAOS?

• Our Perks: Free daily lunch, ‘No meeting Fridays,’ casual dress code.
• Hourly rate for this position in the selected city is $30-$45 (competitive hourly rate by discipline and level).
• 401K eligibility on the first of the month following 30 days of enrollment.
• Relocation: relocation package for non-local interns.
• Free daily lunch, ‘No meeting Fridays,’ unlimited PTO, casual dress code.
• Mentor pairing, intern community 
• Community Cohort programming and technical talks from our engineering leads. 
• Team Growth: 350 employees and counting across 5 global offices.

The stated compensation range reflects only the targeted base compensation range and excludes additional earnings such as bonuses, 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 offers may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. 

Recruiting Agencies: CHAOS Industries does not accept unsolicited resumes or outreach. Unsolicited submissions will not be reviewed or compensated.

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