Head of Autonomy

About the role

Neros is transforming a defense industry mired in costly, behemoth machinery-to circumvent a looming vulnerability gap, to give dismounted soldiers a fighting chance against tanks, and ultimately, to get as many humans off the battlefield as possible. While consumer technology is evolving by bounds on the smaller-cheaper-better path, U.S. defense technology wallows in the large, centralized, and wildly expensive paradigm. Our air, land, and sea machinery budget is staggering; yet these large assets can still be vulnerable to very small weapons. When swarm technology comes into its own, the asymmetry will escalate. Nowhere is the pattern more glaring than in small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS)-drones.

Responsibilities

• Hire and build a strong team of world-class talent
• Manage and grow team leads/managers across core computer vision, state estimation, and controls directions
• Set autonomy roadmap with help from their principal engineer, product org, and founders
• Be responsible for current and future autonomy products
• You should have the following
• You have owned the build-out of past teams and run the hiring process with support from a recruiting org
• Experience defining the scope of autonomy products and working across teams through production
• 6+ years of autonomy experience, ideally in a fast-paced, high-volume startup
• Hardware constrained autonomy deployment
• Strong ability to synthesize customer objectives into engineering outcomes.
• Understands how to test new approaches to controls on actual robots / drones
• Have experience across controls engineering, state estimation, vision, etc.
• Previous ownership of sensor fusion for IMUs, GPS, cameras, and other onboard sensors.
• Test and validate state estimation solutions in both simulated and real-world environments.
• Experience with non-linear controls, or motion planning
• Significant experience building embedded software for autonomous systems
• Experience leading product roadmap across multiple systems

Requirements

• Knowledge of FPV drones
• Strong knowledge of sensor fusion techniques (e.g., Kalman filters, EKF, particle filters)
• Experience with simulation tools
• US Salary Range
• $100,000 - $400,000 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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