# Perception Lead at Neros

- Company: Neros
- What the company does: Neros is vertically integrating production of unmanned defense systems in the United States, securing the autonomous supply chain. Are you with us? Backed by Sequoia.
- Company website: https://www.neros.tech/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Torrance, California, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $134K to $187K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-17
- Apply by: 2026-11-01
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/nerostechnologies/jobs/5241175007
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/neros-perception-lead/

## About the role

The Perception Lead owns the perception stack across all Neros unmanned aircraft, covering detection, recognition, and image-space target tracking from the sensor through to the target track consumed by state estimation and guidance. This role leads a small perception engineering team while contributing directly to the software, and sets the technical direction for the transition from classical computer vision to learned models as flight data justifies it.

## What they're looking for

- Own the architecture, roadmap, and delivery of the perception stack across all vehicle platforms, maintaining a single configurable implementation rather than per-program forks
- Lead and grow the perception engineering team through hiring, mentorship, and technical review, while continuing to contribute directly as an engineer
- Deliver detection, recognition, and image-space tracking that hold a designated target and re-acquire it after loss, in clutter, glare, low light, occlusion, and degraded link conditions
- Own deployment of perception software to constrained onboard compute, including accuracy and latency trade-offs, optimization for embedded accelerators, and compliance with end-to-end latency budgets
- 6+ years developing production computer vision or perception software, including 2+ years leading a team or a technical program as a tech lead or engineering manager, with continued hands-on technical contribution
- Demonstrated delivery of perception software onto a physical system operating in an uncontrolled outdoor environment, such as unmanned aircraft, ground robotics, autonomous vehicles, or aerospace platforms

Tags: R&D - Autonomy