Neros
Autonomy Platform & Runtime Lead
$201K–$281K
Torrance, California, United States · Full-time · Posted Apr 7, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years professional experience, including 2+ years leading an engineering team or technical program.
About the job
Leads the autonomy platform team and builds the shared onboard runtime, deployment pipeline, and hardware integration for Neros unmanned aircraft.
What you'll do
- Own the runtime architecture, scheduling, latency monitoring, logging, time synchronization, and release and deployment systems across vehicle platforms.
- Represent autonomy in hardware co-design and deploy learned components to embedded accelerators, balancing compute, power, thermal, mass, accuracy, and latency needs.
- Lead and mentor the platform engineering team while contributing hands-on to the codebase.
What they ask for
- 5+ years developing production embedded, robotics, or real-time software, including 2+ years leading an engineering team or technical program, with ongoing hands-on work.
- Delivered software onto a physical vehicle or embedded platform outside a laboratory, including bring-up, integration, and field operation.
- Expert proficiency in modern C++ on embedded Linux and working proficiency in Python.
- Experience owning a robotics or vehicle runtime or middleware architecture and demonstrated depth in real-time systems engineering.
Nice to have
- Unmanned aircraft integration experience, including flight controller or autopilot interfaces such as PX4, ArduPilot, or MAVLink.
- Experience with hardware-in-the-loop benches or taking a software platform through volume manufacturing.
Pay
$201,000 – $281,000 USD base salary
Tools
C++, Python, ROS 2, DDS, Zenoh, LCM, PTP, gPTP
AI focus
Deploy learned components, including neural networks, to embedded accelerators; quantify quantization-related accuracy and latency trade-offs.
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