# State Estimation & Navigation 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: $192K to $268K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-08
- Apply by: 2026-10-23
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/nerostechnologies/jobs/5230346007
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/neros-state-estimation-and-navigation-lead/

## About the role

The State Estimation and Navigation Lead owns the team responsible for determining vehicle state and target state onboard Neros aircraft, along with the uncertainty attached to each. This team delivers the estimate that guidance, control, and mission behavior are built on, and its accuracy directly bounds the performance of the autonomy stack.

## What they're looking for

- Own the technical roadmap for onboard state estimation and navigation, and the interface this team delivers to guidance and control, including vehicle state, target state, and calibrated uncertainty
- Architect, implement, and field GPS denied and GPS degraded navigation to a bounded and measured accuracy specification, fusing IMU, vision, GNSS, and other onboard sensing on embedded compute
- Lead the development of visual inertial and terrain relative navigation from prototype through fielded capability across multiple aircraft
- Define and enforce the standard for characterizing estimation uncertainty and reporting autonomy reliability, including validation in simulation, dataset replay, hardware in the loop, and flight test
- Hire, manage, and mentor state estimation and navigation engineers, and set the technical bar through design and code review on the estimation path
- Partner with perception, guidance and control, platform software, and hardware teams on sensing, compute, latency, and calibration requirements, and support flight test and field deployment of the estimation stack

Tags: R&D - Autonomy