Neros
Flight Software Manager
$226K–$316K
Torrance, California, United States · Manager · Full-time · Posted Jun 12, 2026
About the job
Leads the team building and delivering mission-critical flight software across Neros’s drone platforms, owning its architecture, reliability, releases, and engineering quality.
What you'll do
- Lead and grow the flight software team through hiring, mentorship, and performance management.
- Own flight-software architecture, delivery, interfaces, release cadence, and long-term codebase health across vehicle platforms.
- Set quality and test practices, including code review, CI/CD, unit and integration testing, and coordination with Test on SITL/HITL and flight tests.
What they ask for
- Has led a software team as a hands-on manager, owning people management and technical direction.
- Strong background in embedded, real-time, safety-critical, and/or mission-critical software; hands-on depth in flight-control, avionics, or closely adjacent real-time control systems.
- Familiarity with flight-stack platforms such as PX4, Betaflight, ArduPilot, or comparable autopilot/flight-control software.
- Track record of shipping reliable software on hardware-coupled, schedule-constrained programs; strong judgment on testing, technical debt, and quality.
Nice to have
- Experience with contested-environment datalink/RF comms, platform interfaces for other teams, or multi-vehicle/swarm systems.
- Experience bringing up new vehicle platforms or product lines from prototype to production.
Pay
$225,500 - $316,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
PX4, Betaflight, ArduPilot, SITL/HITL, CI/CD
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