Controls Engineer - Autonomy

Controls Engineer - Autonomy

Neros is a defense technology company rebuilding Americas 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. Were 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.

More about

This is a startup within a startupwere building the autonomy function from scratch.

To date, Neros has raised $46M; since the last raise, revenue has increased 5x

Neros has strong traction with multiple large government opportunities.
Neros is the only U.S. drone company with fully U.S.-made components.

Neros is already expanding product lines into smaller and larger drone platforms, and in-house radio stack, and a low-cost companion compute hardware.
Neros' products are extremely competitive in the market. Competitors are 25x more expensive at the.moment.

What you will be doing

As a founding member of Neros' Autonomy team, you will get to help decide the direction of our future. We are looking for someone who can write the software on the Neros Archer platform controlling all autonomy.

You should have the following

3+ years of experience pushing C/C++ into a high-volume production environment
2+ years of experience as a lead in dynamic motion planning and obstacle avoidance
Experience with real-time non-linear controls
Industry experience with new board bring-up owning the product at every stage
Basic Electrical Engineering Skills
- Oscilloscope
- Logic Analyzer
Nice to haves

Electronics Design
Schematic Design
PCB design
Microsoldering
Flight control software experience
Betaflight
PX4
Ardupilot
Sub frame latency video compression
Embedded wireless systems