Senior Firmware Engineer, Ground Software
Neros Technologies1 day ago
Torrance, CA, USASenior
Base Salary
$180k - $252k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain firmware for ground control hardware on microcontroller and embedded Linux targets.
- Own operator input handling, aircraft communication links, telemetry, video reception, and control-path latency and reliability.
- Define the ground side of the aircraft-to-ground interface with the flight software team, including degraded-link behavior.
- Bring up and debug new ground hardware with electrical engineering using oscilloscopes and logic analyzers.
- Write unit and integration tests and partner with the test organization on hardware-in-the-loop and field testing.
Requirements
- Strong embedded C, C++, or Rust experience in resource-constrained environments, including firmware shipped on real hardware in the field.
- Real-time firmware experience with interrupts, DMA, timing budgets, and load-related debugging.
- Hands-on board bring-up and hardware debugging experience.
- Working knowledge of UART, SPI, I2C, USB, and Ethernet communication interfaces.
- Experience taking firmware from first boot to production with light direction.
- Appropriate test discipline for field-reliable firmware.
- Preferred experience with embedded Linux, Yocto or Buildroot, Linux networking, IP-based radio or datalink integration, embedded video pipelines, and RC or ground controller firmware such as ExpressLRS or EdgeTX/OpenTX.
Benefits
- US salary range of $180,000–$252,000 in base salary.
- Highly competitive 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.