Head of Autonomy
About The Position
Neros is transforming the defense industry by moving away from costly, large machinery towards smaller, more efficient solutions. The goal is to address a vulnerability gap, provide dismounted soldiers with an advantage against tanks, and minimize human presence on the battlefield. While consumer technology advances rapidly, defense technology remains large, centralized, and expensive, making it vulnerable even to small weapons. This trend is particularly evident in small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS), or drones, where swarm technology is expected to escalate the asymmetry.
Requirements
- 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.
Nice To Haves
- Knowledge of FPV drones.
- Strong knowledge of sensor fusion techniques (e.g., Kalman filters, EKF, particle filters).
- Experience with simulation tools.
Responsibilities
- Build the core autonomy stack for millions of mass-manufactured, attritable strike drones.
- Get the AI product to market and amplify the effectiveness of Neros drone pilots by multiple orders of magnitude.
- Own the core autonomy stack.
- Construct and direct a rapid-iteration team.
- Deploy GPS-denied navigation, terminal guidance, and swarm coordination into brutally contested environments.
- 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.
Benefits
- Highly competitive equity grants are considered part of Neros' total compensation package.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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