# Senior Firmware Engineer, Platform 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: $195K to $273K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-07-23
- Apply by: 2026-10-12
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/nerostechnologies/jobs/5195308007
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/neros-senior-firmware-engineer-platform/

## About the role

Neros 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.

## What they're looking for

- 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

Tags: Firmware/Embedded Engineer