Principal Software Engineer, Manufacturing Systems

About the Company

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.

Responsibilities

• Own 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/consume, 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, audibility, observability, testing, release management, and operational reliability
• Build integration patterns that are reliable, supportable, and resilient to future system changes
• Partner directly with factory, quality, supply chain, warehouse, finance, and business systems stakeholders
• Mentor future engineering hires and help shape the technical culture of the Manufacturing Systems team

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Significant backend, platform, internal tools, systems, or infrastructure work
• Experience designing, building, and shipping production software in ambiguous environments
• Strong hands-on coding ability and recent experience contributing to production systems
• Experience designing APIs, data models, service boundaries, and integration patterns
• Experience working with cross-functional stakeholders outside engineering
• Ability to work onsite with operational teams in a manufacturing environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with MES, QMS, WMS, ERP, or CRM systems
• Experience in hardware, aerospace, defense, robotics, or high-volume manufacturing
• Experience with serialization, genealogy, traceability, or warehouse workflows
• Experience with event-driven systems, message queues, ETL/ELT, or CDC
• Experience building software in compliance-sensitive or regulated environments