Senior Firmware Engineer, Platform

What you will be doing

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.

Responsibilities

• 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

You should have the following

• Mastery of embedded C on shipped products, with fluency across both MCU/RTOS and embedded Linux environments
• Have built platform code that other engineers depended on — libraries, SDKs, or protocols consumed by multiple teams — and kept them stable through change
• Hands-on ownership of an embedded build system (e.g. Bazel) — cross-compilation across multiple targets, dependency management, and build reproducibility
• Track record of owning problems that spanned team or subsystem boundaries and driving them to shipped resolution
• Strong resource-constrained design judgment — compute, memory, and bandwidth trade-offs on real hardware
• Debugging mastery — a history of cracking the bugs others gave up on
• Hands-on: you still ship code, and your technical influence comes from the work

Nice to have

• Bazel specifically, especially for embedded/cross-compiled targets — or migrating a firmware org onto it
• Embedded Linux platform internals — kernel, BSPs, Yocto/Buildroot — alongside MCU work
• Flight-stack experience — Betaflight, PX4, or similar
• DSP, comms, or RF-adjacent firmware
• Visible open-source systems work
• You fly — FPV, RC, or drones generally

US Salary Range

$195,000 – $273,000 USD

The 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.