- Robot type
- Drone · Defense
- Location
- TorranceCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Software
- Posted
- Sep 8, 2026
- Salary
- $191,500–$268,000 a year
Full-time
Manager, Autonomy Evaluation, Data & Test
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 release criteria for autonomy software, including the definition of the regression gate, the conditions under which a build is blocked, and the process for reviewing exceptions
- Define autonomy performance metrics and their semantics for the organization, and publish coverage and reliability reporting to engineering and company leadership
- Build and operate a multi-tier regression system spanning unit and module tests, open-loop replay against logged flights, closed-loop simulation, and hardware-in-the-loop testing on production flight computers,…
- Own the autonomy data platform end to end: on-vehicle capture, field egress, ingest and normalization, log catalog and query layer, deterministic replay at scale, and versioned dataset materialization for model training
- Direct field test and autonomy integration, including instrumented test articles, autonomy payload integration, range operations, log recovery, and flight-readiness execution
- Hire, lead, and develop a team of engineers spanning software infrastructure, data engineering, simulation, and physical test