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How Neros hires

Truth index
A 89/100
Median time to fill
56 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
42%
Reposted roles
0%

Neros scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 26 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 42% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 56 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Overview

Neros is a defense technology company headquartered in Torrance, California near Los Angeles that designs and mass-produces low-cost FPV, autonomous and interceptor drones for Western militaries, including its Archer FPV system. Founded in 2023 by former drone racers Soren Monroe-Anderson and Olaf Hichwa, it builds its drones in the United States without Chinese supply chains, has offices in Washington, Kyiv and London, and raised a $250 million Series C at a $2.5 billion valuation. It hires mechanical, firmware, PCB, autonomy, UAV systems and manufacturing engineers, FPV test pilots, supply chain and IT staff, and US Army business development leads.

News

News Los Angeles Times 2 months ago
Neros Technologies Secures $250M Series C to Scale Autonomous Defense Drones
Neros Technologies raises $250M in Series C funding to scale defense drone production. Learn how the $2.5B startup is expanding autonomous systems.
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News Pulse 2.0 2 months ago
Neros Raises $250 Million Series C At $2.5 Billion Valuation To Scale Autonomous And Interceptor Drone Programs
Neros Technologies has raised $250 million in Series C funding at a $2.5 billion post-money valuation to accelerate development and production of its autonomous and interceptor drone programs. The round was co-led by Sequoia Capital and American Strategic
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News YahooFinance 7 months ago
First PBAS Delivery Completed Early as Neros Launches Archer Block 2
EL SEGUNDO, Calif., March 09, 2026--Neros Technologies today confirmed its first delivery under the U.S. Army's Purpose Built Attritable Systems (PBAS) program ahead of contract date, marking a key milestone in fielding NDAA-compliant unmanned systems at
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Press release businesswire.com 10 months ago
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News Pulse 2.0 11 months ago
Neros: $75 Million Series B Raised To Scale Domestic Drone Manufacturing And Support U.S. Defense Programs
Neros has secured a $75 million Series B funding round led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from Vy Capital US and Interlagos. The funding follows a period of rapid production scaling, increased revenue, and successful deployments across key U.S. de
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Drone Startup Neros Gets $35 Million
Neros Inc., a drone manufacturing startup based in El Segundo, has raised $35 million in series A funding. The round was led by Vy Capital in the United
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News sUAS News 1 year ago
Neros Archer
Introducing Neros Archer, the first FPV platform on the BlueUAS list. Archer is a high performance, long range FPV drone capable of carrying a 2 kg/4.5 lb payload over 20 kilometers. The components that make up Archer are engineered by Neros, refined by r
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News Live Science 1 year ago
More than 1,300 coins buried during Roman emperor Nero
A hoard of 1,368 coins, most of them silver, was discovered in England. Why they were buried is a mystery.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Neros over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
121
Postings analysed
85
Stack modernity
66/100
Languages
Python33%
C++12%
SQL8%
MATLAB7%
Frameworks & libraries
Betaflight15%
ArduPilot9%
GStreamer4%
FFmpeg2%
Databases
Memcached1%
PostgreSQL1%
Redis1%
InfluxDB1%
Cloud & platforms
Linux11%
Azure5%
Kubernetes4%
AWS4%
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Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$192k
Typical range
$56k – $357k
Open positions
98
81 Jobs
Junior 13.6%
Middle 13.6%
Senior 51.9%
Staff 17.3%
Principal 3.7%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Junior 11 $137k $56k – $194k
Middle 11 $168k $95k – $215k
Senior 42 $216k $128k – $315k
Staff 14 $233k $103k – $349k
Principal 3 $357k $300k – $357k
Highest paying role Principal Electrical Engineer $357k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Neros By role, level and city, against the market · 98 jobs with pay

Growth

Hiring Momentum
50/100
Stable
Open positions
105
12 opened / 10 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
53 days
faster than 26% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics 0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Industrial Engineering
26% ▼
Field & Service
15% ▼
Operations
10% ▼
Hardware
9% ▲
Management
8% ▼
Robotics
4% ▲
Actively hiring for Industrial Engineering (+7 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
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Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
3
Hiring now
3
Countries
2
Busiest office
Torrance
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Torrance United States
HQ
90 open roles 61 posted in 90 days 31% engineering 200-500 est. staff $204k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Hardware, Field & Service
seen since Apr 2025 careers board, job postings
Washington United States
Sales office
DC
3 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $173k Avg Salary
hires for Communications, Public Policy, Field & Service
seen since Aug 2026 careers board, job postings
Swindon United Kingdom
Sales office
London Office
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff $95k Avg Salary
hires for Operations
seen since Aug 2026 careers board, job postings

Jobs

$111k – $155k per year · Equity · In office · 5+ years exp · Torrance
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Figma
Adobe InDesign
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$225k – $315k per year · Equity · In office · 8+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Torrance
MIL-STD-810
MIL-STD-461
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$101k – $141k per year · Equity · In office · 3+ years exp · Torrance
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$100k – $160k per year · Equity · In office · 1+ year exp · Bachelor's Degree · Torrance
SolidWorks
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$187k – $315k per year · Equity · In office · 8+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Torrance
Python
Ansys SIwave
HyperLynx
Defense
MIL-STD-810
MIL-STD-461
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$180k – $252k per year · Equity · In office · Torrance
Rust
C++
Linux
Robotics
ExpressLRS
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$180k – $252k per year · Equity · In office · 7+ years exp · Torrance
Python
Java
Rust
Kotlin
TypeScript
C#
Linux
Windows
Robotics
MAVLink
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$137k – $192k per year · Equity · In office · 4+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Torrance
Python
LTspice
Ansys SIwave
HyperLynx
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$154k – $216k per year · Equity · In office · 5+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Torrance
AS9100
Life Sciences
Design of Experiments
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$154k – $216k per year · Equity · In office · 5+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Torrance
AS9100
Life Sciences
Design of Experiments
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$154k – $216k per year · Equity · In office · 5+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Torrance
AS9100
Life Sciences
Design of Experiments
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$68k – $95k per year · Equity · In office · 2+ years exp · Torrance
ArduPilot
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Financials

Total raised
$372.2M
Latest round
Series C
Funding rounds
7
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount Valuation
Series C 2026 $250M $2.5B Details
Series B 2025 $75M — Details
Series A 2025 $35M — Details
Grant 2024 $74k — Details
Grant 2024 $1.1M — Details
Seed 2024 $10.9M — Details
Grant 2024 $94k — Details