Senior Firmware Engineer, Platform
Neros Technologies3 months ago
Torrance, CA, USASenior
Base Salary
$195k - $273k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the common runtime and libraries used by firmware teams, including logging, telemetry, IPC, and configuration, across MCU-based systems and Linux targets.
- Own the build system, cross-compile toolchain, and SDK for fast, reproducible, hermetic builds across shipped targets.
- Design and maintain stable interfaces for teams building on the platform.
- Resolve ambiguous problems at the boundary between the platform and its consumer teams.
- Drive compute, memory, and bandwidth resource trade-offs between competing subsystems.
- Raise firmware engineering standards through patterns, code review, and mentoring.
Requirements
- Mastery of embedded C on shipped products across MCU/RTOS and embedded Linux environments.
- Experience building and maintaining platform code, libraries, SDKs, or protocols used by multiple engineering teams.
- Hands-on ownership of embedded build systems, cross-compilation, dependency management, and reproducible builds.
- Track record of resolving problems spanning team or subsystem boundaries through shipment.
- Strong judgment around compute, memory, and bandwidth trade-offs on resource-constrained hardware.
- Advanced debugging ability and a history of solving difficult firmware bugs.
- Must remain hands-on and continue shipping code.
- Preferred experience includes Bazel for embedded or cross-compiled targets, embedded Linux internals such as kernel, BSPs, Yocto, or Buildroot, flight stacks such as Betaflight or PX4, DSP, communications, RF-adjacent firmware, visible open-source systems work, or flying FPV, RC, or drones.
Benefits
- Highly competitive equity grants are included as part of total compensation.
- The role is based in the United States, with equal-opportunity employment practices.
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.