Modeling & Simulation Engineer

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 . About the Team: The Modeling & Simulation team builds the simulation capabilities used to design, integrate, test, and validate advanced aerospace and defense systems. We develop physics-based models, simulation environments, and analysis tools that help engineering teams evaluate system behavior, improve designs, and reduce risk before hardware design, integration, test, and fielding. About the Role: As a Modeling & Simulation Engineer, you will develop and maintain simulations for complex systems and subsystems across vehicle, sensor, software, and hardware domains. You will work with engineering teams to select the right model fidelity, build credible simulation environments, analyze results, and validate models against test data. The team owns simulation capabilities across CHAOS’s product portfolio, from fast-running engineering models to high-fidelity closed-loop simulations, with model fidelity matched to the decision, test event, or verification objective. This role requires strong technical judgment, software ability, and engineering fundamentals. You will help shape simulation architecture, model interfaces, validation workflows, and the tools used to support design trades, integration, test planning, and system verification. What You'll Do: Develop, integrate, and maintain models and simulations for advanced defense systems, including sensors, vehicles, effectors, environments, autonomy software, embedded software, and hardware interfaces. Build system- and subsystem-level simulations to support design trades, performance assessment, integration, test planning, verification, field-test preparation, and post-test analysis. Develop models of RF /radar, EO / IR , communications, seekers, navigation sensors, vehicles, actuators, environments, targets, and other system elements at appropriate levels of fidelity. Support simulation environments such as software-in-the-loop (SITL), hardware-in-the-loop (HITL), hardware/software integration labs ( HIL / SIL ), real-time simulation, discrete-event simulation, automated regression testing, Monte Carlo studies, and large-scale batch analysis. Work with RF , EO / IR , sensors, GNC , autonomy, flight software, embedded software, systems engineering, test, and product teams to define simulation requirements, interfaces, assumptions, and validation criteria. Run sensitivity, uncertainty, design-of-experiments, and performance studies to characterize system behavior and inform engineering decisions. Validate and correlate models against analytical references, lab data, calibration data, ground test, flight test, range data, hardware test, field data, or other authoritative sources. Develop and maintain simulation software, model APIs, configuration systems, scenario definitions, data pipelines, analysis tools, visualization workflows, and automated validation tests. Integrate embedded software, autonomy software, flight software, sensor models, hardware models, or subsystem models into closed-loop simulation environments. Produce clear technical documentation, model assumptions, validation evidence, analysis summaries, engineering-review material, customer briefings, and CDRL -supporting content. Help establish best practices for model development, simulation credibility, software quality, version control,…