Configuration Management Specialist

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:

We are seeking an experienced Senior Configuration Management (CM) Specialist who will lead configuration management activities across development, qualification, and production programs supporting Massed Modular Aircraft (MMA) program. This role owns the integrity of product baselines throughout the system lifecycle — ensuring that design, documentation, and as-built/as-maintained configurations remain accurate, traceable, and compliant with contractual, regulatory, and internal quality requirements. The ideal candidate has deep familiarity with defense industry CM practices, engineering change processes, and the unique configuration control challenges of complex, safety-critical hardware/software systems. This position is located in Los Angeles and may require travel to other sites or the customer for reviews and audit.

Responsibilities:

• Establish, maintain, and audit product baselines (functional, allocated, and product) across hardware and software configuration items throughout the program lifecycle.
• Manage the Engineering Change Proposal/Request (ECP/ECR) process, including impact assessment coordination, Configuration Control Board (CCB) support, and disposition tracking.
• Maintain configuration status accounting and traceability across requirements, design documentation, drawings, software builds, and test/qualification records.
• Ensure as-designed, as-built, and as-maintained configurations remain synchronized and auditable.
• Apply configuration management practices in accordance with applicable standards (e.g., EIA-649, MIL-STD-973/MIL-HDBK-61, SAE-EIA-649, ANSI/EIA-649-B) and contract-specific CM plans (CMPs) or Data Item Descriptions (DIDs).
• Support compliance with customer and regulatory requirements relevant to aircraft, missile, or sUAS programs (e.g., AS9100, DO-178C/DO-254 configuration aspects, ITAR/EAR documentation control).
• Prepare for and support internal audits, customer configuration audits (Functional Configuration Audits/Physical Configuration Audits — FCA/PCA), and government reviews.
• Set up and administer configuration management tools/systems (e.g., PLM/PDM systems such as Teamcenter, Windchill, or similar; DOORS or other requirements management tools) to control engineering data and change records.