Capability Strategist, IAMD

CHAOS Industries · Washington, District of Columbia, United States

  • Senior
  • Full-time
  • $185,000 – $260,000
  • Posted 2026-11-03
  • Confirmed live on 10 November 2026

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Job description

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, and London. For more information, please visit www.chaosinc.com.

Role Overview:

As the Capability Strategist, IAMD at CHAOS, you will own the integrated air and missile defense (IAMD) capability strategy across CHAOS's air defense radar and interceptor products and the broader set of air defense mission areas the company supports. You will bring recent, real-world air defense operations experience to the way CHAOS designs, tests, fields, and sells its systems: you understand how an air defense unit actually plans a defense design, builds and maintains an air picture, controls weapons, identifies and engages threats, and fights through a saturation raid, and how requirements for sensors, interceptors, and battle command are shaped before they ever reach a program office.

The role is two-sided. For engineering, you will turn warfighter needs into requirements, trades, test objectives, and scenarios that guide product investment, and you will explain the operational rationale behind each. For business development and marketing, you will turn the same operational understanding into the context, win themes, demonstrations, and senior-leader messaging that let CHAOS speak credibly to air defense customers. You will build and hold CHAOS's relationships across the US Army and joint IAMD enterprise, so that the company hears about operational problems before they become requirements, and you will have a formal voice in product roadmap and capture prioritization for the air defense portfolio. The level of this role will be set to match the experience and scope the selected candidate brings. The role is comparable to a strategic mission engineer or senior operational subject matter expert at other defense companies.

This is a foundational hire. You will operate with limited guidance in a fast-moving environment, identify what the warfighter actually needs, and generate creative, practical solutions to operational problems that do not yet have a defined answer. You will have the freedom to move fast.

Responsibilities:

• Own the IAMD capability strategy. Define and maintain CHAOS's capability strategy for air and missile defense, including cruise missile defense, counter-UAS integration into the layered defense, and short- and medium-range air defense, covering the defended assets, threats, employment concepts, and operational problems the products must solve, and keep it current as threats, doctrine, and customer priorities change.

• Translate warfighter needs for engineering. Turn the realities of defense design, engagement operations, weapons control status, identification criteria, airspace control, sensor and shooter netting, and battle command integration into requirements, trades, and test objectives that engineering and product teams can design, build, and test against, and explain the operational rationale behind each.

• Contextualize the mission for business development and marketing. Articulate the "so what" of CHAOS's radar and interceptor products for the air defender and the theater plan, and shape win themes, proposal content, demonstration design, and senior-leader messaging so they reflect what matters to the people who will fight with the system.

• Build and hold the air defense relationships. Own CHAOS's relationships across the Fires Center of Excellence and the Air Defense Artillery branch, the Army Air and Missile Defense Commands and their brigades and battalions, the joint IAMD community, the theater air and missile defense planning and air picture enterprise, and the relevant program offices, test, and training organizations, and engage them to shape requirements and advantage CHAOS in future competitive programs.

• Shape the roadmap and capture priorities. Serve as a standing voice in product roadmap and capture prioritization decisions for the air defense portfolio, bringing the operational case for what to pursue, what to demonstrate first, and what not to claim until it has been shown.

• Translate current and future concepts of operation—including US and allied force standard operating procedures (SOPs) and tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) for static and mobile air defense forces—into mission engineering and operations analysis design.

• Identify unmet operational needs across the air defense kill chain (detect, track, identify, decide, engage, assess) and generate cr

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