Who we are

Neros is a defense technology company rebuilding America’s drone industrial base. We design and manufacture high-performance unmanned systems that are tested in combat, iterated at startup speed, and built at massive scale. Our team culture is fast, hands-on, and obsessed with closing the gap between design and deployment.

As drones transform the character of warfare, Neros is delivering the systems the West needs to compete on the modern battlefield and deter the adversaries of democracy. We’re hiring engineers, operators, and builders who want to move fast, take on extreme ownership, and get capability into the hands of warfighters in months, not years.

• Lead the autonomy software development effort for an upcoming Neros product, owning architecture decisions end-to-end
• Define hardware requirements and interface closely with hardware teams to ensure software and system design are tightly coupled
• Develop and iterate on terminal guidance, position hold, visual navigation, and swarming capabilities
• Hire, manage, and grow a small team of autonomy engineers — setting technical standards and maintaining a high execution bar
• Write and review production-quality embedded autonomy code in C, C++, and/or Python
• Operate effectively under hardware constraints, making smart tradeoffs between performance and compute/power budgets

• 3+ years proven experience leading technical work in hardware-constrained autonomy — small drones, ground robots, or similar systems strongly preferred
• Hands-on depth in one or more of: computer vision, state estimation, controls, or robotics
• Experience managing engineers and delivering projects end-to-end, not just contributing to them
• Strong proficiency in C, C++, and/or Python in embedded or resource-constrained environments
• Experience hiring for autonomy or AI roles

• Prior work with quadcopters or other aerospace systems
• Familiarity with Betaflight, ExpressLRS, or ArduPilot

US Salary Range

$150,000 - $225,000 USD

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are considered part of Neros' total compensation package.

We’re an equal opportunity employer. We welcome all applicants without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

Who we are

Neros is a defense technology company rebuilding America’s drone industrial base. We design and manufacture high-performance unmanned systems that are tested in combat, iterated at startup speed, and built at massive scale. Our team culture is fast, hands-on, and obsessed with closing the gap between design and deployment.

As drones transform the character of warfare, Neros is delivering the systems the West needs to compete on the modern battlefield and deter the adversaries of democracy. We’re hiring engineers, operators, and builders who want to move fast, take on extreme ownership, and get capability into the hands of warfighters in months, not years.

What you will be doing

The Autonomy Computer Vision Engineer will be responsible for developing and implementing cutting-edge computer vision algorithms to be deployed onboard Neros drones. This role involves designing, testing, and optimizing algorithms for real-time operation in autonomous systems, ensuring high performance and reliability in diverse environments. The candidate will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including robotics engineers, software developers, and hardware engineers, to integrate vision-based solutions into autonomous drone platforms.

You should have the following

• 3+ years of experience in computer vision, robotics, or related fields
• Proven experience in developing algorithms for real-time systems, preferably for autonomous platforms
• Strong proficiency in programming languages such as Python and C++
• Expertise in computer vision libraries and tools like OpenCV, TensorFlow, PyTorch, or similar
• Experience with SLAM, object detection, and image segmentation techniques
• Familiarity with UAVs and drone systems
• Knowledge of real-time system constraints
• Proficiency in debugging, testing, and validating algorithms in simulation and real-world environments

US Salary Range

$150,000 - $200,000 USD

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are considered part of Neros' total compensation package.

We’re an equal opportunity employer. We welcome all applicants without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

Who we are

Neros is transforming a defense industry mired in costly, behemoth machinery—to circumvent a looming vulnerability gap, to give dismounted soldiers a fighting chance against tanks, and ultimately, to get as many humans off the battlefield as possible.

While consumer technology is evolving by bounds on the smaller-cheaper-better path, U.S. defense technology wallows in the large, centralized, and wildly expensive paradigm. Our air, land, and sea machinery budget is staggering; yet these large assets can still be vulnerable to very small weapons. When swarm technology comes into its own, the asymmetry will escalate. Nowhere is the pattern more glaring than in small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS)—drones. 

What you will be doing

As an early Neros employee, you will get to help decide the direction of our future. We are looking for someone who can drive the development, design, and testing of our systems. You will be responsible for the full-stack systems and roadmap in implementing autonomy into our core product. You will amplify the effectiveness of Neros drone pilots by multiple orders of magnitude. You will own team building, execution, and launching systems that will be produced in millions.

You should have the following

• 6+ years of industry experience, ideally in a fast-paced, high-volume startup
• Experience defining the scope of autonomy products and working across teams through production
• You have owned the build-out of past teams and run the hiring process with support from a recruiting org
• Hardware constrained autonomy deployment
• Understands how to test new approaches to controls on actual robots / drones
• Test and validate state estimation solutions in both simulated and real-world environments.
• Significant experience leading cross-discipline software engineering teams
• Significant experience building embedded software for autonomous systems
• Strong ability to synthesize customer objectives into engineering outcomes.
• Have experience across controls engineering, state estimation, vision, etc.
• Experience with non-linear controls, or motion planning
• Previous ownership of sensor fusion for IMUs, GPS, cameras, and other onboard sensors.
• Experience leading product roadmap across multiple systems

Nice to have

• Knowledge of FPV drones
• MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experience
• Strong knowledge of sensor fusion techniques (e.g., Kalman filters, EKF, particle filters)
• Experience with simulation tools 

US Salary Range

$100,000 - $400,000 USD

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are considered part of Neros' total compensation package.

We’re an equal opportunity employer. We welcome all applicants without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

Who we are

Neros is a defense technology company rebuilding America’s drone industrial base. We design and manufacture high-performance unmanned systems that are tested in combat, iterated at startup speed, and built at massive scale. Our team culture is fast, hands-on, and obsessed with closing the gap between design and deployment.

As drones transform the character of warfare, Neros is delivering the systems the West needs to compete on the modern battlefield and deter the adversaries of democracy. We’re hiring engineers, operators, and builders who want to move fast, take on extreme ownership, and get capability into the hands of warfighters in months, not years.

What you will be doing

As an Autonomy Mechatronics Engineer (Hardware & Test), you will own the physical stack that enables autonomy at Neros. You will design, integrate, and test mechanical systems that directly enable autonomous behavior, then prove them under realistic operating conditions. This role spans early-stage concept work through field testing, with direct ownership of both the hardware and the experimental loop. We are looking for engineers who are comfortable moving between CAD, code, in-field testing, and production, and who have demonstrated exceptional ability across the full robotics stack.

Responsibilities

• Own autonomy-critical mechanical subsystems from concept through testing and deployment
• Design, build, and execute test infrastructure and field experiments to validate real-world performance
• Diagnose and resolve cross-disciplinary failures across mechanics, autonomy, sensing, and manufacturing

You should have the following

• 2+ years of professional experience in mechanical engineering, robotics, or mechatronics roles, with direct ownership of shipped hardware systems
• Strong proficiency in mechanical design and CAD (e.g., SolidWorks, NX, or equivalent), including tolerance analysis and production drawings
• Hands-on experience designing and executing hardware test campaigns, including lab, environmental, and field testing
• Demonstrated ability to debug complex, cross-disciplinary issues involving mechanical systems, sensors, controls, and embedded software
• Experience with rapid prototyping methods (CNC, sheet metal, composites, additive manufacturing) and iterative design cycles
• Working knowledge of structural, thermal, or dynamic analysis using FEA or first-principles calculations
• Familiarity with autonomy or robotics systems (UAVs, UGVs, or similar), including an understanding of how mechanical design impacts sensing and control performance
• Experience supporting manufacturing and scale-up, including build procedures, fixtures, and collaboration with contract manufacturers or suppliers

 Nice to have

• Experience running a test qualification campaign for a robotic or drone product
• Experience characterizing sensors

US Salary Range

$100,000 - $130,000 USD

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are considered part of Neros' total compensation package.

We’re an equal opportunity employer. We welcome all applicants without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

Who we are

Neros is a defense technology company rebuilding America’s drone industrial base. We design and manufacture high-performance unmanned systems that are tested in combat, iterated at startup speed, and built at massive scale. Our team culture is fast, hands-on, and obsessed with closing the gap between design and deployment.

As drones transform the character of warfare, Neros is delivering the systems the West needs to compete on the modern battlefield and deter the adversaries of democracy. We’re hiring engineers, operators, and builders who want to move fast, take on extreme ownership, and get capability into the hands of warfighters in months, not years.

What you will be doing

As an Autonomy Simulation Engineer, you will own the internal simulation stack that Neros uses to develop, test, and validate autonomous systems. This in-house simulation will be used across the Neros engineering organization to improve how we deploy future products.

Responsibilities

• Develop Unreal Engine simulation content, environments, and assets
• Design scalable simulation infrastructure for nightly regression, containerized runs, and hardware-in-the-loop testing
• Use simulation to debug issues across the full autonomy stack and drive fixes to internal software

You should have the following

• 2+ years of experience coding in C++/Python/C# or developing video-games
• Experience with Unreal Engine, UE Plugin development, or existing simulation plugins like AirSim
• Experience with video game assets

US Salary Range

$100,000 - $150,000 USD

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are considered part of Neros' total compensation package.

We’re an equal opportunity employer. We welcome all applicants without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

Who we are

Neros is a defense technology company rebuilding America’s drone industrial base. We design and manufacture high-performance unmanned systems that are tested in combat, iterated at startup speed, and built at massive scale. Our team culture is fast, hands-on, and obsessed with closing the gap between design and deployment.

As drones transform the character of warfare, Neros is delivering the systems the West needs to compete on the modern battlefield and deter the adversaries of democracy. We’re hiring engineers, operators, and builders who want to move fast, take on extreme ownership, and get capability into the hands of warfighters in months, not years.

What you will be doing

The Autonomy State Estimation Engineer will be responsible for developing, implementing, and optimizing state estimation algorithms to run onboard drones. This role involves working closely with hardware and software teams to ensure robust and reliable state estimation under a variety of operational conditions.

Responsibilities

• Designing and implementing state estimation algorithms, including sensor fusion techniques for IMUs, GPS, cameras, and other onboard sensors
• Developing real-time software to run estimation algorithms on embedded systems
• Testing and validating state estimation solutions in both simulated and real-world drone environments
• Debugging and improving estimation performance under challenging conditions such as sensor noise, environmental disturbances, and hardware constraints
• Collaborating with autonomy, controls, and perception teams to integrate state estimation with navigation and flight systems
• Staying up-to-date

You should have the following

• 3+ years of experience developing state estimation algorithms for robotics, drones, or similar system
• Strong knowledge of sensor fusion techniques such as Kalman filters, extended Kalman filters (EKF), or particle filters
• Proficiency in programming languages such as C++ or Python
• Experience implementing algorithms on embedded systems or real-time platforms
• Familiarity with sensor technologies like IMU, GPS, cameras, and lidar
• Strong mathematical and analytical skills, particularly in linear algebra, probability, and optimization
• Experience with simulation tools and frameworks (e.g., Gazebo, Mujoco, etc)

US Salary Range

$150,000 - $200,000 USD

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are considered part of Neros' total compensation package.

We’re an equal opportunity employer. We welcome all applicants without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.