{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"6980abaa392defc39a081c51","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/6980abaa392defc39a081c51","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/6980abaa392defc39a081c51","title":"Firmware Engineer - Flight Software","description":"Who we are\nNeros 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.\nAs 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.\nWhat you will be doing\nNeros builds first-person-view drones for the modern battlefield. As a Firmware Engineer on the Flight Software team, you will build the flight-critical firmware that flies the aircraft — flight modes, control algorithms, and the vehicle-side integrations they depend on — across our entire range of products. Your work goes from code to bench to flight test, and what you ship flies in the field.\nResponsibilities\nImplement flight modes and control features — position and altitude hold, and the safety and degradation behavior around them\nPort and tune sensors and control algorithms across flight stacks (Betaflight, PX4), preserving flight feel that expert pilots depend on\nBuild vehicle-side datalink and payload integrations for new platform variants\nInstrument the vehicle, run bench and flight-test iterations, and debug issues that only reproduce in flight\nWrite the unit and integration tests for your firmware, partnering with our Test organization on SITL/HITL and flight-test execution\nYou should have the following\nStrong embedded C on resource-constrained microcontrollers — you have shipped firmware that runs on real hardware in the field\nHands-on experience with a flight stack — PX4, Betaflight, or similar — on vehicles that actually flew\nWorking grasp of flight-control fundamentals: control loops, filtering, and how sensors (IMU, baro, GPS) become state estimates\nTrack record of debugging hardware-coupled problems — failures that only reproduce on the bench or in flight, not in a debugger\nAble to own a problem end to end with light direction — from ambiguous goal to flying firmware\nTest discipline appropriate to safety-relevant firmware\nNice to have\nDatalink, tunneling, or networking-protocol work on embedded systems\nBetaflight internals experience — modes, RC/mixer path, or a maintained fork\nCounter-UAS, radar-guided, or interceptor-adjacent systems exposure or interest\nEstimation depth (EKF/complementary filters, sensor fusion)\nDepth in the PX4 ecosystem — MAVLink, uORB, EKF2, offboard/companion-computer integration, QGroundControl tooling\nYou fly — FPV, racing, or fixed-wing RC\nUS Salary Range\n$145,500 – $204,000 USD\nThe salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are considered part of Neros' total compensation package.\nWe're an equal opportunity employer. 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