Perception Lead
Neros Technologies8 hours ago
Torrance, CA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$134k - $187k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture, roadmap, and delivery of the perception stack across all vehicle platforms.
- Lead, hire, mentor, and technically review a small perception engineering team while remaining hands-on.
- Deliver detection, recognition, and image-space tracking that maintains and reacquires targets in clutter, glare, low light, occlusion, and degraded communications.
- Define perception output contracts, calibrated confidence, degraded-detection signaling, and detection operating points with state-estimation and engagement-authorization owners.
- Guide the transition from classical computer vision to learned detection and classification while maintaining deterministic fallbacks.
- Deploy perception software to constrained onboard compute and optimize accuracy, latency, and embedded-accelerator performance.
Requirements
- 6+ years developing production computer vision or perception software, including 2+ years leading a team or technical program as a tech lead or engineering manager.
- Demonstrated delivery of perception software on a physical system operating in an uncontrolled outdoor environment.
- Expert proficiency in C++ and Python with production experience under real-time or resource-constrained requirements.
- Depth in classical and learned perception, including tracking, feature matching, data association, detection, and classification networks.
- Experience deploying neural networks to embedded accelerators such as NVIDIA Jetson, TensorRT, Qualcomm, Hailo, or equivalent, including quantization and accuracy-latency characterization.
- Working knowledge of EO and IR/thermal imaging, camera calibration, sensor characteristics, and long-range or low-light small-object detection.
- Experience defining datasets, labeling requirements, detection and tracking metrics, and regression tests against logged flight or field data.
- Experience selecting detection thresholds and operating points for safety-critical or mission-critical systems.
- Familiarity with sensor timing and synchronization, coordinate frames, uncertainty representation, state estimation, and navigation.
- Preferred experience selecting and integrating thermal/LWIR sensors, operating a fleet data engine, state estimation and sensor fusion, and flight or field test operations.
Benefits
- US salary range is $133,500–$187,000 in base salary, with competitive equity grants included in total compensation.
- The role includes hands-on work across unmanned aircraft, embedded compute, flight data, and field testing.
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.