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 Embedded Software Engineer Interns for Summer 2027! This is a paid, in-person, 12-week internship role. Embedded software is where our hardware becomes a system. You'll write the firmware that runs on our sensor nodes and the software that keeps them synchronized to each other. This is real-time work on real constraints: timing, power, thermal, and radios that don't care about your abstractions.

What you might work on

• Firmware for sensor node control, health monitoring, and over-the-air update
• Timing and synchronization software across distributed nodes
• Drivers and board support for new hardware revisions, including first bring-up
• Interfaces between embedded targets and our signal processing and platform software
• Automated test and instrumentation for hardware-in-the-loop validation

What We Are Looking For:

• Currently pursuing a bachelor's degree OR master’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• Working proficiency in C or C++
• Exposure to embedded development through coursework, personal projects, competition teams, or prior internships -a microcontroller project you built and debugged counts
• Comfort with a logic analyzer, oscilloscope, or debugger, or eagerness to learn
• Willingness to work on hardware that doesn't work yet
• 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.

 Nice to have: RTOS experience, FPGA or HDL exposure, Linux device drivers, Python for tooling and test, [robotics/rocketry/CubeSat/Formula SAE] team experience. We're looking for someone who is genuinely curious about how things get built, comfortable being wrong in front of people who know more, and eager to move fast in a cross-disciplinary environment.