What you will be doingNeros builds first-person-view drones for the modern battlefield. As a Senior Firmware Engineer on the Platform team, you will own the common runtime, libraries, SDK, and build system that our flight, ground-station, and autonomy software teams build on - across microcontroller and Linux targets alike. Your customers are other engineers, and the hardest problems in this space are the ones that surface where their code meets the platform.
Responsibilities- Own the common runtime and libraries every firmware team consumes - logging, telemetry, IPC, configuration - on MCU-based systems and Linux targets
- Own the build system and cross-compile toolchain: fast, reproducible, hermetic builds across every target we ship, and the SDK other teams consume
- Design and maintain the interfaces other teams build on, keeping them stable as the platform evolves underneath
- Solve the hard, ambiguous problems that surface where the platform meets its consumer teams
- Drive resource trade-offs - compute, memory, bandwidth - when subsystems compete for the same budget
- Raise the firmware engineering bar through patterns, code review, and mentoring
You should have the following- Mastery of embedded C on shipped products, with fluency across both MCU/RTOS and embedded Linux environments
- Have built platform code that other engineers depended on - libraries, SDKs, or protocols consumed by multiple teams - and kept them stable through change
- Hands-on ownership of an embedded build system (e.g. Bazel) - cross-compilation across multiple targets, dependency management, and build reproducibility
- Track record of owning problems that spanned team or subsystem boundaries and driving them to shipped resolution
- Strong resource-constrained design judgment - compute, memory, and bandwidth trade-offs on real hardware
- Debugging mastery - a history of cracking the bugs others gave up on
- Hands-on: you still ship code, and your technical influence comes from the work
Nice to have- Bazel specifically, especially for embedded/cross-compiled targets - or migrating a firmware org onto it
- Embedded Linux platform internals - kernel, BSPs, Yocto/Buildroot - alongside MCU work
- Flight-stack experience - Betaflight, PX4, or similar
- DSP, comms, or RF-adjacent firmware
- Visible open-source systems work
- You fly - FPV, RC, or drones generally
US Salary Range$195,000 - $273,000 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.
