- Robot type
- Drone · Defense
- Location
- TorranceCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Software
- Posted
- Jun 8, 2026
- Salary
- $214,500–$300,000 a year
Full-time
Principal Software Engineer, Manufacturing Systems
Job description
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.
Job 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 to translate operational complexity into simple, usable software
- Mentor future engineering hires and help shape the technical culture of the Manufacturing Systems team