Firmware Engineer - Tennessee Office
Neros Technologies5 months ago
Nashville, TN, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$100k - $190k/yr
Responsibilities
- Translate mission requirements into production features in collaboration with electrical, mechanical, and flight teams.
- Assist with hardware architectures for peripheral systems.
- Develop, modify, and own embedded firmware for headsets, handsets, and future products.
- Implement video conversion, correction, storage, compression, streaming, and related functions using FPGA, MCU, and/or embedded Linux systems.
- Support product development from concept through rapid prototyping and full-scale production.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline.
- At least 2 years of experience.
- Experience with STM32 microcontrollers and significant FPGA development.
- Strong C/C++ embedded systems and embedded Linux skills.
- Familiarity with SPI, I2C, UARTs, DMA pipelines, ADC/DAC operation, interrupts, and clock-domain synchronization.
- Experience with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, JTAG/SWD debuggers, bare-metal development, and Git workflows.
- Working knowledge of camera interfaces, video formats, and compression standards.
- Knowledge or interest in FPV drones or UAVs and strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Preferred qualifications include high-speed MCU-to-FPGA streaming, Part 107 FPV drone pilot licensing, soldering, 3D printing, prototyping, RTOS experience, GStreamer or FFmpeg video pipelines, and FPGA/SoC video conversion experience.
Benefits
- Tennessee office role
- Base salary range of $100,000-$190,000 USD
- Equity grants are part of total compensation
About Neros Technologies
Neros Technologies designs and manufactures high-performance unmanned systems—air vehicles, autonomy software, and related strike and sensing payloads—for U.S. and allied defense customers. The privately held company, founded in 2023 and headquartered in Los Angeles, focuses on combat-tested drones built and iterated at scale to close the gap between design and deployment. Its work spans GPS-denied navigation, state estimation, guidance, and manufacturing to help rebuild the U.S. drone industrial base.