Neros
Firmware Engineer - Flight Software
$146K–$204K
Torrance, California, United States · Full-time · Posted Jul 23, 2026
About the job
Build and test flight-critical firmware, flight modes, control algorithms, and vehicle integrations for Neros’s drone platforms.
What you'll do
- Implement flight modes, control features, and safety and degradation behavior.
- Port and tune sensors and control algorithms across Betaflight and PX4; build datalink and payload integrations.
- Instrument vehicles, debug bench and flight-test issues, and write unit and integration tests.
What they ask for
- Strong embedded C experience on resource-constrained microcontrollers, including firmware shipped on real hardware.
- Hands-on experience with a flight stack such as PX4 or Betaflight on vehicles that flew.
- Working grasp of flight-control fundamentals, including control loops, filtering, and sensor-based state estimation.
- Experience debugging hardware-coupled problems and disciplined testing of safety-relevant firmware.
Nice to have
- Embedded datalink, tunneling, or networking-protocol work; Betaflight internals experience.
- Counter-UAS or related systems exposure or interest; estimation or PX4 ecosystem depth; FPV, racing, or fixed-wing RC flying.
Pay
$145,500 – $204,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
C, Betaflight, PX4, IMU, baro, GPS, MAVLink, QGroundControl
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