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# Senior Firmware Engineer, Ground Software

- **Company:** Neros Technologies
- **Location:** Torrance, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $180,000.0 - $252,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Board Bringup, UClibc (C Standard Library), C++ (Programming Language), Data Link, Computer Networks, Software Debugging, Embedded C, Linux on Embedded Systems, Ethernet, Firmware, Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter, USB, Serial Peripheral Interface, Yocto, Integration Tests, Low Latency, Decoding, Hardware Debugging
- **Published:** October 19, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=a60ddb019487d10c

## About the Role

* Strong embedded C, C++, or Rust in resource-constrained environments - you have shipped firmware that runs on real hardware in the field
 * Real-time firmware experience: interrupts, DMA, timing budgets, and the bugs that only show up under load
 * Hands-on board bring-up and hardware debugging - oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and failures that don't reproduce in a debugger
 * Working knowledge of embedded communication interfaces - UART, SPI, I2C, USB, Ethernet
 * Track record of taking firmware from first boot to production with light direction
 * Test discipline appropriate to firmware that people depend on in the field

Nice to have

 * Embedded Linux - building services and device interfaces on an embedded Linux system; Yocto or Buildroot exposure
 * Linux networking and IP-based radio or datalink integration
 * Video pipelines on embedded hardware - capture, decode, display, latency
 * RC radio or ground controller firmware - ExpressLRS, EdgeTX/OpenTX, or similar
 * Experience moving a product from a microcontroller to an embedded Linux platform
 * You fly - FPV, RC, or drones generally

## Description

* Design, build, and maintain firmware for ground control hardware across microcontroller and embedded Linux targets
 * Own operator input handling, the communication link to the aircraft, and telemetry and video receive on the ground side
 * Own latency and reliability across the operator's control path, from input to transmission
 * Define the ground side of the aircraft-to-ground interface with the flight software team, including behavior when the link degrades
 * Bring up and debug new ground hardware alongside electrical engineering
 * Write unit and integration tests for your firmware, partnering with our test organization on hardware-in-the-loop and field testing