Autonomy Lead

About the Company

Neros is a defense technology company rebuilding America’s drone industrial base. We design and manufacture high-performance unmanned systems that are tested in combat, iterated at startup speed, and built at massive scale.

Responsibilities

• Lead the autonomy software development effort for an upcoming Neros product, owning architecture decisions end-to-end
• Define hardware requirements and interface closely with hardware teams to ensure software and system design are tightly coupled
• Develop and iterate on terminal guidance, position hold, visual navigation, and swarming capabilities
• Hire, manage, and grow a small team of autonomy engineers
• Write and review production-quality embedded autonomy code in C, C++, and/or Python
• Operate effectively under hardware constraints, making smart tradeoffs between performance and compute/power budgets

Requirements

• 3+ years experience leading technical work in hardware-constrained autonomy
• Hands-on depth in computer vision, state estimation, controls, or robotics
• Experience managing engineers and delivering projects end-to-end
• Strong proficiency in C, C++, and/or Python in embedded environments
• Experience hiring for autonomy or AI roles

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior work with quadcopters or other aerospace systems
• Familiarity with Betaflight, ExpressLRS, or ArduPilot