Principal Engineer, Manufacturing Systems
Neros Technologies5 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 Technologies designs and manufactures high-performance unmanned systems—air vehicles, autonomy software, and related strike and sensing payloads—for U.S. and allied defense customers. The privately held company, founded in 2023 and headquartered in Los Angeles, focuses on combat-tested drones built and iterated at scale to close the gap between design and deployment. Its work spans GPS-denied navigation, state estimation, guidance, and manufacturing to help rebuild the U.S. drone industrial base.