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# Lead, Platform Software Engineer

- **Company:** Neros, Inc.
- **Location:** Torrance, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $198,000.0 - $277,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Computing Platforms, Booting (BIOS), UClibc (C Standard Library), Code Review, Continuous Integration, Linux, Linux on Embedded Systems, Design of User Interfaces, Linux Distribution, Real-Time Operating Systems, System Software, Toolchain, Management of Software Versions, Yocto
- **Published:** September 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/lead-platform-software-neros-technologies-10159046

## About the Role

* Has led a software team as a hands-on manager - owning both people management and technical direction
 * Deep embedded-platform background: custom Linux (Yocto/Buildroot), kernel/BSPs, bootloaders, and the runtime/SDK layer other teams build on
 * Track record of running a platform or foundational-software team as a product - stable interfaces, versioning, and consumer teams who could depend on it
 * Strong judgment on build-vs-adopt, interface design, and resource trade-offs across an embedded system
 * Able to operate as the interface between the team and senior leadership - managing expectations upward and clearing execution blockers
 * Player-coach: still technically credible enough to review BSP/kernel/runtime code and make architecture calls

Nice to Have

 * Experience building an embedded platform team from a small nucleus
 * MCU/RTOS platform work alongside embedded Linux
 * Bazel or comparable build-system leadership across cross-compiled targets
 * Real-time, safety-relevant, or mission-critical embedded platforms
 * Background bringing up new computer platforms from prototype to production

## Description

* Lead and grow the Platform Software engineering team, including hiring, mentorship, and performance management
 * Own the roadmap and delivery of the embedded platform - Linux distribution and BSPs, kernel and bootloader, common runtime and libraries, and the cross-compile toolchain and SDK
 * Run the platform as a product: keep the interfaces our flight, ground, and autonomy teams depend on stable, versioned, and evolving without breaking them
 * Make the hard architecture calls - build vs. adopt, interface design, and resource allocation across subsystems
 * Set and uphold engineering quality practices - code review, testing, and CI/CD - for foundational software
 * Stay hands-on: review platform code and own architecture, not just process


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