- Robot type
- Drone · Defense
- Location
- TorranceCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Artificial Intelligence
- Posted
- Sep 17, 2026
- Salary
- $133,500–$187,000 a year
Full-time
Perception 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 perception stack across all vehicle platforms, maintaining a single configurable implementation rather than per-program forks
- Lead and grow the perception engineering team through hiring, mentorship, and technical review, while continuing to contribute directly as an engineer
- Deliver detection, recognition, and image-space tracking that hold a designated target and re-acquire it after loss, in clutter, glare, low light, occlusion, and degraded link conditions
- Define the perception output contract, including calibrated confidence and explicit signaling of suppressed or degraded detection, and set detection operating points jointly with the state estimation and engagement…
- Drive the progression from classical computer vision to learned detection and classification, determining when flight data demonstrates that a learned component outperforms the deployed baseline, defining the…
- Own deployment of perception software to constrained onboard compute, including accuracy and latency trade-offs, optimization for embedded accelerators, and compliance with end-to-end latency budgets