Neros
Senior Platform Engineer
$164K–$228K
Torrance, California, United States · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 1, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of professional experience developing production embedded, robotics, or real-time software.
About the job
Builds the onboard software platform and runtime that supports Neros autonomy software, including real-time scheduling, logging, sensor timing, and data delivery.
What you'll do
- Develop and maintain autonomy runtime and middleware integration, including interfaces, processes, threads, messaging, and execution rates.
- Implement real-time scheduling, latency monitoring, high-rate logging, hardware timestamping, and synchronization on vehicle hardware.
- Support hardware-in-the-loop infrastructure and field tests, troubleshooting platform timing, logging, and integration issues.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of professional experience developing production embedded, robotics, or real-time software, including delivery on systems operating outside a laboratory.
- Demonstrated delivery to a physical vehicle or embedded platform through bring-up, integration, and field operation.
- Expert proficiency in modern C++ on embedded Linux and working proficiency in Python.
- Hands-on runtime or middleware development; depth in real-time systems, high-rate logging, time synchronization, and camera/inertial sensor drivers and data paths.
Nice to have
- Unmanned aircraft integration experience, including mission computers, flight controllers or autopilots, and PX4, ArduPilot, and MAVLink or equivalent.
- Experience with thermal imaging payloads, hardware-in-the-loop benches, or deterministic log replay.
Pay
$163,500 – $228,500 USD (base salary)
Tools
C++, Python, ROS 2, DDS, Zenoh, LCM, PX4, ArduPilot
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