- Robot type
- Drone · Defense
- Location
- TorranceCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Software
- Posted
- Sep 22, 2026
- Salary
- $198,000–$277,000 a year
Full-time
Lead, Platform Software
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
- Lead and grow the Platform Software engineering team, including hiring, mentorship, and performance management
- Own the roadmap and delivery of the embedded platform — Linux distribution and BSPs, kernel and bootloader, common runtime and libraries, and the cross-compile toolchain and SDK
- Run the platform as a product: keep the interfaces our flight, ground, and autonomy teams depend on stable, versioned, and evolving without breaking them
- Make the hard architecture calls — build vs. adopt, interface design, and resource allocation across subsystems
- Set and uphold engineering quality practices — code review, testing, and CI/CD — for foundational software
- Stay hands-on: review platform code and own architecture, not just process