- Robot type
- Drone · Defense
- Location
- TorranceCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Software
- Posted
- Sep 9, 2026
- Salary
- $163,500–$228,500 a year
Full-time
Autonomy Platform & Runtime Lead
Job description
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. Our team culture is fast, hands-on, and obsessed with closing the gap between design and deployment.
Job responsibilities
- Own the architecture, roadmap and delivery of the autonomy runtime, including the module interface contract, process and thread model, message passing, execution rates and latency guarantees that every other autonomy…
- Maintain a single autonomy runtime across all vehicle platforms through a platform configuration layer, such that a new airframe revision is delivered as a configuration change rather than a software fork, and enforce…
- Own real time scheduling, latency accounting and deadline monitoring, including end to end sensor to actuator measurement on flight hardware under sustained thermal load, and deliver the instrumentation required for…
- Own build, release, versioning and deployment of autonomy software to bench and field vehicles, the autonomy continuous integration infrastructure jointly with the evaluation organization, and on vehicle logging and…
- Own the representation of autonomy in hardware co-design and bill of materials decisions by quantifying compute, power, thermal and mass requirements against measured latency budgets, and own deployment of learned…
- Lead and grow the platform engineering team through hiring, mentorship and technical review, while continuing to contribute directly to the codebase as an engineer