Neros
Perception Lead
$201K–$281K
Torrance, California, United States · Full-time · Posted Sep 17, 2026
- Experience
- 6+ years in production computer vision or perception software; 2+ years leading a team or technical program as a tech lead or engineering manager.
About the job
Leads a small team while building and setting the technical direction for perception software across Neros’ unmanned aircraft, from sensor input through target tracking for state estimation and guidance.
What you'll do
- Own the architecture, roadmap, and delivery of a configurable perception stack across vehicle platforms.
- Lead and mentor the perception team while contributing hands-on to software development.
- Deliver and deploy detection, recognition, and tracking, including progression from classical computer vision to learned models and optimization for onboard compute.
What they ask for
- 6+ years developing production computer vision or perception software, including 2+ years leading a team or technical program, with continued hands-on contribution.
- Demonstrated delivery of perception software on a physical system operating outdoors in an uncontrolled environment.
- Expert proficiency in C++ and Python, with production experience under real-time or resource-constrained requirements.
- Experience deploying neural networks to embedded accelerators, including quantization and assessing accuracy and latency trade-offs.
Nice to have
- Experience selecting and integrating thermal/LWIR sensors.
- Experience building or operating a fleet data engine for log capture, search, dataset versioning, and labeling.
Pay
$201,000 – $281,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
C++, Python, NVIDIA Jetson, TensorRT, Qualcomm, Hailo
AI focus
Drive the transition from classical computer vision to learned detection and classification when flight data shows learned components outperform the deployed baseline; define evaluation criteria and retain a deterministic fallback.
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