Flight Software Manager

About the role

Neros is a defense technology company rebuilding America's drone industrial base. We design and manufacture high-performance unmanned systems that are tested in combat, iterated at startup speed, and built at massive scale. Our team culture is fast, hands-on, and obsessed with closing the gap between design and deployment. As drones transform the character of warfare, Neros is delivering the systems the West needs to compete on the modern battlefield and deter the adversaries of democracy. We're hiring engineers, operators, and builders who want to move fast, take on extreme ownership, and get capability into the hands of warfighters in months, not years.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the Flight Software engineering team, including hiring, mentorship, and performance management
• Own the architecture and delivery of the airside flight-software stack across multiple vehicle platforms
• Drive predictable, safe software releases for mission-critical systems and steward the long-term health of the codebase
• Set and uphold engineering quality practices - code review, testing, and CI/CD - for mission-critical software
• Own the flight software team's test strategy and unit/integration testing, partnering with the Test organization on SITL/HITL and flight-test execution
• Define and maintain the software interfaces consumed by autonomy and adjacent teams

Requirements

• Has led a software team as a hands-on manager - owning both people management and technical direction
• Strong background in embedded, real-time, safety-critical and/or mission-critical software
• Hands-on depth in flight-control / avionics software, or closely adjacent real-time control systems
• Familiarity with flight-stack platforms such as PX4, Betaflight, ArduPilot, or comparable autopilot/flight-control software
• Track record of shipping reliable software on hardware-coupled, schedule-constrained programs
• Strong judgment on test rigor, technical debt, and quality for mission-critical systems
• Able to operate as the interface between the team and senior leadership - managing expectations upward and clearing execution blockers for the team
• Experience with contested-environment datalink / RF comms
• Experience defining platform interfaces consumed by other teams - e.g. autonomy, gcs, etc.
• Multi-vehicle / swarm systems experience
• Background bringing up new vehicle platforms or product lines from prototype to production
• US Salary Range
• $225,000 - $265,000 USD
• We're an equal opportunity employer. We welcome all applicants without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

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