Principal Connectivity Engineer

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

As a Principal Connectivity Systems Engineer, you will define the technical future of Neros connectivity systems. You will own the architecture that connects our FPV drones, ground stations, repeaters, radios, antennas, embedded systems, video links, command-and-control links, and platform-level electrical constraints into a coherent system that works in the field. This is a principal-level architecture role for someone who can move between communications theory, RF hardware, embedded systems, electrical design, platform integration, test strategy, and product requirements without losing sight of what can be built at startup speed.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end connectivity system architecture for current and future FPV drone platforms, ground systems, and supporting infrastructure
• Translate long-term platform requirements into wireless system architectures, development roadmaps, technical proposals, and executable engineering plans
• Make architecture-level tradeoffs across RF performance, link budget, waveform/modulation, antennas, embedded compute, power, thermal, latency, reliability, manufacturability, and schedule
• Define the future of Neros video, command-and-control, telemetry, repeater, mesh, point-to-point, and ground-to-air connectivity capabilities
• Serve as the connectivity team's technical authority in cross-disciplinary architecture reviews, platform decisions, proposal reviews, and feasibility assessments
• Partner with RF design, electrical, embedded software, systems, mechanical, manufacturing, test, product, and leadership teams to turn ambiguous requirements into working systems
• Identify technical risks, infeasible approaches, and missing requirements early enough to change direction quickly, and mentor principal, senior, and staff engineers

You should have the following

• Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, RF/Microwave Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field
• 12+ years of experience designing, architecting, integrating, or leading complex wireless, RF, embedded, electrical, or communications systems
• Deep understanding of wireless communication systems: link budgets, modulation, coding, receiver sensitivity, interference, coexistence, propagation, latency, throughput, reliability, and system-level RF tradeoffs
• Experience architecting systems that combine RF hardware, antennas, embedded software, electrical interfaces, power constraints, and real-world operating requirements
• Demonstrated ability to lead ambiguous, architecture-level technical decisions across multiple engineering disciplines
• Strong electrical engineering fundamentals: power, signal integrity, digital interfaces, mixed-signal systems, sensors, compute, and embedded hardware constraints
• Strong embedded systems judgment: firmware/software architecture, hardware-software interfaces, real-time constraints, telemetry, diagnostics, and field-update considerations
• Experience taking wireless or embedded hardware systems from concept through prototype, validation, field test, production…