Principal Engineer, Manufacturing Systems
Neros Technologies3 months ago
Torrance, CA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$100k - $190k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the technical architecture for internal manufacturing systems, MES workflows, integrations, and enterprise system boundaries.
- Design and build production software for factory execution, including work orders, routing, material issue and consumption, completion, serialization, genealogy, rework, and exception handling.
- Define system boundaries across ERP, MES, QMS, CRM, internal applications, integrations, and operational data services.
- Establish engineering standards for APIs, data models, permissions, auditability, observability, testing, release management, and operational reliability.
- Build reliable, supportable, and resilient integration patterns that can accommodate future system changes.
- Partner with factory, quality, supply chain, warehouse, finance, and business systems stakeholders to translate operational complexity into usable software.
- Mentor future engineering hires and help shape the technical culture of the Manufacturing Systems team.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant backend, platform, internal tools, systems, or infrastructure work.
- Experience designing, building, and shipping production software in ambiguous or fast-changing environments.
- Strong hands-on coding ability and recent experience contributing to production systems.
- Experience designing APIs, data models, service boundaries, integration patterns, and reliable system-to-system workflows.
- Strong judgment regarding build-versus-buy decisions, technical tradeoffs, and long-term maintainability.
- Experience collaborating with non-engineering stakeholders in operations, manufacturing, warehouse, supply chain, quality, finance, or business systems.
- Ability to reason about permissions, auditability, traceability, genealogy, data ownership, error handling, observability, and supportability.
- Ability to act as the first senior technical leader in a new function while remaining hands-on and practical.
- Strong communication skills and ability to explain technical decisions to non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to work onsite with operational teams in a fast-moving manufacturing environment.
- Experience with MES, manufacturing execution, shop-floor systems, QMS, WMS, ERP, CRM, or enterprise integrations is preferred.
- Experience in hardware, aerospace, defense, robotics, drones, logistics, electronics, or high-volume manufacturing is preferred.
- Experience with serialization, genealogy, traceability, routing, work orders, rework, material consumption, barcode scanning, or warehouse and manufacturing workflows is preferred.
- Experience with workflow systems, audit trails, RBAC, event-driven systems, message queues, ETL/ELT, CDC, or integration platforms is preferred.
- Experience building software in compliance-sensitive, audit-heavy, or regulated environments is preferred.
- Experience leading or mentoring engineers without moving fully into people management is preferred.
Benefits
- Onsite role working directly with operational teams in a fast-moving manufacturing environment
- Highly competitive equity grants are included as part of total compensation
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About Neros Technologies
Neros is a defense technology company that builds asymmetric systems to ensure the West’s strategic edge.