Strategic Mission Engineering Lead, C-UAS

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:

As the Strategic Mission Engineering Lead, C-UAS at CHAOS, you will lead the design, development, execution, analysis, and validation of models and simulations to deliver operational analysis and system performance assessment across defense, national security, and commercial programs – which will guide internal engineering investment, and assist business development in shaping customer requirements. You will have freedom to move rapidly and use your expertise to ensure rigorous statistical methods and simulation outcome analysis are tied to current and future threat and blue force concepts of employment. Your experience and work will directly inform critical decisions around product requirements, product engineering, business development strategy, and product road mapping.

This is a foundational hire. You will shape how CHAOS does mission engineering and operations analysis from day one, and you will have the freedom to move fast.

Responsibilities:

• Own the overall mission engineering and operations analysis strategy for Counter Unmanned Aerial Systems (C-UAS) and Air Defense (AD) product development and business development strategy at CHAOS.
• Inject and translate current and future concepts of C-UAS and AD operation into mission engineering and operations analysis design, to include US and allied force standard operating procedures (SOPs) and tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) for static and mobile C-UAS
• Enable the translation of validated intelligence community products (NASIC, DIA, MSIC, ONI, NGIC, MCIA, and partner agency assessments) for adversary UAS, cruise missile, and other aerial attack methods and into modeling parameters, scenario constructs, and red force order of battle for mission-level simulations.
• Lead blue force CONOP-informed scenario development across all domains, ensuring scenarios reflect credible blue force CONOPS, doctrine, and projected capabilities, not generic boilerplate.
• Validate blue force operating models, assumptions, and simulation outputs against authoritative source data; engage customer Air Defense users and partners to resolve discrepancies and refresh representations as new CONOPS and CONEMPS are developed.
• Brief blue force CONOP assessments, scenario rationale, and analytical findings to senior technical leadership, program executives, and government customers, including DoD, DARPA, and IC stakeholders up to the flag/SES level in order to better inform their requirements development to advantage CHAOS in future competitive programs.
• Partner with engineers, data scientists, and analysts to translate operational and intelligence questions into well-structured analytical approaches. The Mission Engineering Lead’s role is to push back when the question being asked isn't the right one.
• Stay forward of emerging blue force capabilities, doctrine, TTPs/SOPs, and technologies, and shape study designs to address what's coming, not just what's documented.
• Serve as CHAOS's primary interface to US and allied partner air defenders, including coordination of classified data exchanges and mission data accreditation.
• Support programs spanning DoD services, DARPA, intelligence community, and commercial customers.
• Partner with engineering, product, growth, and customer teams to translate operational questions into well-structured analytical approaches and shape new business pursuits. Push back when the framing is wrong.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Operations Research, Economics, Mathematics or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience supporting defense, intelligence, or advanced technology programs through industry or government employment.
• Recent experience planning and executing operational C-UAS and/or Air Defense of US military assets in a deployed combat environment.
• Extensive direct experience with the design and execution of operational real-world employment of C-UAS sensing and effecting capabilities against a peer adversary.
• Significant experience guiding the use of anal