State Estimation & Navigation Lead

Who we are

Neros 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.

As 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.

What you will be doing

The State Estimation and Navigation Lead owns the team responsible for determining vehicle state and target state onboard Neros aircraft, along with the uncertainty attached to each. This team delivers the estimate that guidance, control, and mission behavior are built on, and its accuracy directly bounds the performance of the autonomy stack. You will lead a small team of state estimation and navigation engineers while remaining hands on in the estimator itself, delivering GPS denied navigation across multiple platforms in active development and defining how estimation performance is measured across the autonomy organization.

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