Flight Software Manager

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 and grow the Flight Software engineering team, including hiring, mentorship, and performance management
• Own the architecture and delivery of the airside flight-software stack across multiple vehicle platforms
• Drive predictable, safe software releases for mission-critical systems and steward the long-term health of the codebase
• Set and uphold engineering quality practices — code review, testing, and CI/CD — for mission-critical software
• Own the flight software team's test strategy and unit/integration testing, partnering with the Test organization on SITL/HITL and flight-test execution
• Define and maintain the software interfaces consumed by autonomy and adjacent teams

Requirements

• Experience leading a software team as a hands-on manager
• Strong background in embedded, real-time, safety-critical and/or mission-critical software
• Hands-on depth in flight-control / avionics software or real-time control systems
• Familiarity with flight-stack platforms such as PX4, Betaflight, ArduPilot, or comparable autopilot software
• Track record of shipping reliable software on hardware-coupled, schedule-constrained programs
• Ability to interface between the team and senior leadership

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with contested-environment datalink / RF comms
• Experience defining platform interfaces consumed by autonomy or GCS teams
• Multi-vehicle / swarm systems experience
• Background bringing up new vehicle platforms from prototype to production