--- title: 'Senior Data Platform Engineer at Neros Technologies' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-data-platform-engineer-neros-technologies-torrance-arek8zb5e7qr' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-18' --- # Senior Data Platform Engineer at Neros Technologies - **Company:** Neros Technologies - **Location:** Torrance, CA - **Posted:** 2026-10-01 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-18 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/nerostechnologies/jobs/5241234007 ## Job description ## 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 Data Platform Engineer owns the autonomy data pipeline end to end: recovering flight data from vehicles in the field, landing it in the cloud, and making it searchable and replayable at scale. This is a greenfield role. You will stand up the storage, catalog, and query infrastructure that every autonomy test, simulation run, and machine learning dataset at Neros depends on, and you will own its architecture, operating cost, and compliance posture. ## Responsibilities - Build the path that brings flight data back from the field, including triggered capture on the vehicle, prioritized upload so the highest-value flights return first, and resumable transfer with integrity verification. - Turn raw logs into a usable corpus: decode, time-align multi-sensor and video streams, validate, and quarantine malformed data before it reaches downstream users. - Design the catalog and tag model that index the corpus, and stand up the cloud storage and database that hold it - Build the query layer so an engineer can retrieve every flight matching a condition, for example loss of target lock at terminal stage under high glare within the last 90 days, and get playable video back in seconds. - Serve logs to the evaluation harness with stable ordering, exact time alignment, and reproducible results across runs, so a regression job can run over thousands of flights at once. - Build versioned, immutable datasets from catalog queries, with lineage recorded so any model training set can be rebuilt exactly months later. You should have the following - 5+ years building production data or backend infrastructure, including at least one system you owned end to end from initial design through ongoing operation - Direct experience with large-scale log or sensor data: multi-terabyte and growing, with video and multiple synchronized sensor streams (rosbag, MCAP, HDF5, Parquet, or equivalent formats), rather than row-oriented business data - Designed and owned a data schema, index, or catalog that other engineers queried daily, and lived with the consequences of that design, including at least one migration - Strong Python, plus SQL and working ownership of a relational database (PostgreSQL or equivalent) used in production - Practical experience with cloud object storage and compute (Azure, AWS, or GCP) and the ability to provision and operate it independently, without a dedicated platform or DevOps team - Experience with distributed or parallel batch processing and job orchestration (Spark, Ray, Dask, Airflow, Dagster, or equivalent) across large volumes of recorded dat - Working knowledge of time synchronization and alignment across sensor streams, and of deterministic, reproducible processing of recorded data - A track record of building internal tooling that other engineers adopted, including at least one case where you changed the design based on how it was actually being used ## Nice to have - Log or data infrastructure built for robotics, autonomous vehicles, aerospace, or defense programs, where replay determinism, time alignment, and multi-sensor logs are native problems rather than new ones - Experience handling video at scale, including transcoding, frame-accurate seeking, and streaming playback of recorded footage to engineering users - Direct Azure experience, infrastructure defined as code (Terraform or Bicep), and prior responsibility for a cloud budget where storage tiering and egress costs mattered - Prior work in export-controlled, GovCloud, or IL4/IL5 environments, or familiarity with CMMC and ITAR data handling obligations - Experience connecting a data pipeline to a labeling vendor or internal labeling tooling, or to model training, experiment tracking, and model registry workflows US Salary Range $163,500 – $228,500 USD The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are considered part of Neros' total compensation package. We’re an equal opportunity employer. We welcome all applicants without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status. ## About Neros Technologies ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: A defense technology company building combat-proven, attritable drones and unmanned systems to deliver asymmetric advantage for Western military forces at scale. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series B) - **Headquarters**: Los Angeles, California, United States (El Segundo area) - **Founded**: 2023 - **Founders**: Soren Monroe‑Anderson (CEO) and Olaf Hichwa (CTO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Defense and Space Manufacturing - **Target customers**: U.S. Department of Defense (Army, Marine Corps), allied nations (Ukraine, UK), and NATO partners – B2G / government. - **Mission statement**: “Building unmanned superiority. At scale. In America.” The company was founded to onshore the manufacturing of drones critical to a modern arsenal and close the gap between design and deployment. ## Products & Services Neros designs and manufactures high-performance unmanned aerial systems (UAS) with a focus on first‑person view (FPV) attritable drones, ground control stations, radios, and supporting software. - **Archer Strike FPV**: A kinetic‑enabled FPV drone for lethal effects at range in contested environments. Combat‑proven, BlueUAS certified, and selected for the U.S. Army’s PBAS program. - **Archer**: General‑purpose FPV drone built for modular payloads and resilient communications; also available as the **Archer Fiber** variant (fiber‑optic control link for jamming resistance, launched Dec 2025 in partnership with Kela Technologies). - **Longbow / Crossbow**: Ground control stations – Longbow is a maximum‑range stationary GCS; Crossbow is a tactical GCS enabling electronic warfare resistance at range. - **APEX (Adaptive Payload Exchange)**: An open‑source drone‑to‑payload integration standard (released May 2026) with commitments from Northrop Grumman and others. - **Software**: Flight control, autonomy, and manufacturing‑support software. Custom flight computer with integrated sensor suite, designed for rapid iteration and software‑defined hardware. ## Market Standing - **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed - **Key Metric**: Total funding – **$120.9M** raised to date (Seed $10.9M, Series A $35M, Series B $75M) - **Notable Investors / Partners**: Sequoia Capital (led Series B), Vy Capital, Cantos (led Seed); Kela Technologies (Archer Fiber), Northrop Grumman (APEX), DARPA (AI Grand Prix hardware provider) - **Growth Signals**: - Selected by U.S. Army for Purpose‑Built Attritable Systems (PBAS) program (one of three vendors) targeting up to 1M drones over two years. - 6,000‑unit export deal to Ukraine. - Established Neros Technologies UK with up to £10M investment over five years; manufacturing hub in Swindon. - Headcount growth: +355% YoY (approx. 75–88 employees); 52 active job postings as of mid‑2026. - Open‑sourced APEX standard to create ecosystem lock‑in. ## Competitive Advantages - **Vertically integrated U.S. manufacturing** with a secure, onshored supply chain – founded specifically to rebuild the American drone industrial base. - **Combat‑proven systems** (Ukraine, live‑fire testing) in high‑tempo electronic warfare environments. - **BlueUAS certified** – compliance with NDAA and U.S. government standards. - **Fiber‑optic control link** (Archer Fiber) that is immune to RF jamming – a unique differentiation in contested spectrum. - **Open‑source payload standard (APEX)** to drive adoption and ecosystem dependence. - **Rapid iteration culture** – “engineer at the speed of modern conflict” with continuous battlefield feedback. ## Strategic Focus - **Scale production**: CEO has publicly stated a target of 10,000+ drones per month; PBAS award and UK hub are key enablers. - **International expansion**: Establish sovereign manufacturing in the UK (Swindon) to supply British Armed Forces and NATO partners. - **Autonomy advancement**: Hiring Head of Autonomy, autonomy simulation engineers, and computer vision engineers to mature software‑defined capabilities. - **Ecosystem building**: Promote APEX as an industry standard to lock in partners and expand market reach. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: “Fast, hands‑on, and obsessed with closing the gap between design and deployment.” Emphasizes extreme ownership, rapid iteration, and real‑world impact. Attracts talent from SpaceX, Anduril, Skydio, and Relativity Space. - **Work model**: On‑site in Torrance (CA), with a Tennessee office (Advanced Manufacturing) and Ukraine office. UK hub (Swindon) also hiring. Roles include engineering, manufacturing, autonomy, RF, IT, and business development. - **Notable perks / engineering culture**: Build products that are actually tested in combat; startup speed with mission‑focused seriousness; opportunity to shape the future of attritable drone warfare. Strong preference for builders, not watchers. ## Sources 1. [neros.tech](https://www.neros.tech/) 2. [Greenhouse Careers Page](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/nerostechnologies) 3. [LinkedIn Company Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/neros-tech) 4. [Built In Neros Technologies](https://builtin.com/company/neros-technologies) 5. 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