Firmware Engineer: Flight Software for Drones

Cantos Ventures; Torrance (CA); On-site; USD 145,500 - 204,000; Full time

Job summary

Neros builds first-person-view drones for the modern battlefield. As a Firmware Engineer on the Flight Software team, you will develop flight-critical firmware that drives aircraft flight modes, control algorithms, and vehicle-side integrations across our products.

You will see work from code to bench to flight test, with on-field operations requiring robustness and reliability. Your impact spans from sensor integration to flight-test validation, with emphasis on safety-relevant firmware, test

Qualifications

• Strong embedded C on resource-constrained microcontrollers.
• Experience with flight stacks (PX4/Betaflight) on flying vehicles.
• Ability to own a problem end-to-end with light direction.
• Experience writing unit and integration tests for firmware.

Responsibilities

• Implement flight modes and control features — position and altitude hold, and the safety and degradation behavior around them.
• Port and tune sensors and control algorithms across flight stacks (Betaflight, PX4), preserving flight feel that expert pilots depend on.
• Build vehicle-side datalink and payload integrations for new platform variants.
• Instrument the vehicle, run bench and flight-test iterations, and debug issues that only reproduce in flight.
• Write the unit and integration tests for your firmware, partnering with our Test organization on SITL/HITL and flight-test execution.

Skills

Embedded C

Flight stacks

Control theory

Debugging hardware

End-to-end ownership

Test discipline

Tools

PX4

Betaflight

MAVLink

uORB

QGroundControl

EKF2

Job description

Neros builds first-person-view drones for the modern battlefield. As a Firmware Engineer on the Flight Software team, you will develop flight-critical firmware that drives aircraft flight modes, control algorithms, and vehicle-side integrations across our products.

You will see work from code to bench to flight test, with on-field operations requiring robustness and reliability. Your impact spans from sensor integration to flight-test validation, with emphasis on safety-relevant firmware, test