Firmware Engineer - Flight Software
Neros Technologies3 months ago
Torrance, CA, USASenior
Base Salary
$146k - $204k/yr
Responsibilities
- Implement flight modes and control features such as position hold, altitude hold, and associated safety and degradation behavior.
- Port and tune sensors and control algorithms across the Betaflight and PX4 flight stacks.
- Build vehicle-side datalink and payload integrations for new platform variants.
- Instrument vehicles, conduct bench and flight-test iterations, and debug issues that reproduce only in flight.
- Write unit and integration tests for firmware and partner with the Test organization on SITL, HITL, and flight-test execution.
Requirements
- Strong embedded C experience on resource-constrained microcontrollers, including firmware shipped on real hardware in the field.
- Hands-on experience with a flight stack such as PX4 or Betaflight on vehicles that actually flew.
- Working knowledge of control loops, filtering, and sensor-based state estimation using IMU, barometer, and GPS data.
- Experience debugging hardware-coupled problems that reproduce on the bench or in flight.
- Ability to own ambiguous problems end to end with light direction.
- Test discipline appropriate for safety-relevant firmware.
- Preferred experience with datalink, tunneling, or networking protocols on embedded systems.
- Preferred experience with Betaflight internals, including modes, RC/mixer paths, or maintaining a fork.
- Counter-UAS, radar-guided, or interceptor-adjacent systems exposure or interest is preferred.
- Estimation experience with EKF, complementary filters, or sensor fusion is preferred.
- PX4 ecosystem experience, including MAVLink, uORB, EKF2, offboard or companion-computer integration, and QGroundControl tooling, is preferred.
- Experience flying FPV, racing, or fixed-wing RC aircraft is preferred.
Benefits
- Highly competitive equity grants are part of total compensation.
- The role involves hands-on work from code to bench testing and flight testing.
Tech Stack
C
Categories
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.