# Senior Engineering Manager – Firestorm OS at Firestorm

- Company: Firestorm
- What the company does: Firestorm Labs - Democratize the fight with radically-affordable, mission-adaptable power for air, land, and sea. Backed by NEA.
- Company website: https://www.launchfirestorm.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Diego, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $175K to $220K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-17
- Apply by: 2026-11-01
- Apply: https://jobs.gem.com/firestorm/am9icG9zdDrDBqrrksUQKN5QGolqXwpu
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/firestorm-senior-engineering-manager-firestorm-os/

## About the role

Firestorm builds modular autonomous aircraft designed to adapt across missions, payloads, and deployment environments. Firestorm OS is the common software platform that enables those aircraft. It provides the Linux-based services, communications, media, hardware interfaces, SDKs, and system capabilities used across Firestorm aircraft and their variants.

## What they're looking for

- Experience building software for autonomous systems, robotics, aircraft, or other complex embedded products
- Experience with vehicle or robotics interfaces such as MAVLink, PX4, ArduPilot, or similar platforms
- Experience building SDKs, hardware abstraction layers, or platform APIs for other engineering teams