Firmware Engineer

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

• Work closely with electrical, mechanical and flight teams to translate mission requirements into production features
• Assist in the development of hardware architectures critical to Neros’ peripheral systems
• Develop, modify and own embedded firmware for Neros peripheral systems including headsets, handsets and future products
• Work with FPGA, MCU and/or embedded Linux systems to implement video conversions, corrections, storage, compression, streaming and other functions

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering, Computer Science or a related discipline
• 2+ years of experience
• STM32 family of microcontrollers
• Significant FPGA experience
• Strong C/C++ for embedded systems
• Strong embedded Linux skills
• Familiarity with peripherals and interfaces such as SPI, I2C, UARTs, DMA pipelines, ADC/DAC operation, interrupts, etc.
• Proficiency with hardware tools like oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and JTAG/SWD Debuggers
• Knowledge of synchronization between clock domains
• Working knowledge of camera interfaces, video formats and compression standards
• Bare-metal development experience
• Experience using Git
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of High speed data streaming between MCU and FPGA
• FPV drone pilot license Part 107
• Soldering, 3D printing, and prototyping skills
• RTOS experience such as FreeRTOS or Zephyr
• Gstreamer or ffmpeg video pipeline experience
• Experience handling video conversions in FPGAs, SoCs or other platforms