Autonomy Platform Lead — Real-Time UAV Software Architect

StartX; Torrance, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 164,000 - 229,000; Full time

Job summary

Neros Technologies is seeking an Autonomy Platform Lead to own the onboard autonomy runtime, manage a small platform team, and contribute directly to the software running on unmanned aircraft. You will drive real-time scheduling, hardware co-design considerations, and end-to-end latency measurement across platforms.

The role requires deep embedded C++ on Linux, ROS 2, and neural network deployment to embedded accelerators, with strong hands-on contribution and leadership responsibilities in a

Qualifications

• 5+ years of production embedded/real-time software experience with leadership roles.
• Experience delivering software to physical vehicles or embedded platforms outside lab environments.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture, roadmap and delivery of the autonomy runtime and interfaces.
• Maintain a single autonomy runtime across platforms via a configuration layer.
• Lead platform engineering team and contribute hands-on to codebase.

Skills

C++ on embedded Linux

Real-time software

Embedded systems

Team leadership

Hardware co-design

On-vehicle data logging

Neural networks on embedded acceler.

Build, release & CI

Hardware-software integration

Time synchronization

Tools

ROS 2

DDS

Zenoh

LCM

NVIDIA Jetson / TensorRT

QNN / SNPE / TIDL

Yocto / Buildroot

Job description

Neros Technologies is seeking an Autonomy Platform Lead to own the onboard autonomy runtime, manage a small platform team, and contribute directly to the software running on unmanned aircraft. You will drive real-time scheduling, hardware co-design considerations, and end-to-end latency measurement across platforms.

The role requires deep embedded C++ on Linux, ROS 2, and neural network deployment to embedded accelerators, with strong hands-on contribution and leadership responsibilities in a