Principal Engineer, Manufacturing Systems

Neros Technologies

$100K — $190K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with a focus on backend and systems work.
  • Proven experience in designing, building, and launching software in fast-paced environments.
  • Strong coding skills with recent production system contributions.
  • Expertise in API design, data modeling, and integration workflows.
  • Good judgment in technical decision-making and long-term system viability.
  • Experience collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams across various functions.

Responsibilities

  • Own the technical architecture for internal manufacturing systems and integrations.
  • Design and implement production software for factory execution including all stages from work orders to exception handling.
  • Define integration boundaries across various enterprise systems.
  • Establish engineering standards for APIs, data models, and operational reliability.
  • Create robust integration patterns that withstand system changes.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to simplify operational complexities through software.
  • Mentor newcomers and influence the technical culture of the Manufacturing Systems team.

Benefits

  • Flexible work environment with potential for on-site collaboration.
  • Opportunity to shape and lead the technical direction of a new function.
  • Access to competitive equity grants as part of the compensation package.
Full Job Description
What you will be doing
  • 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

You should have the following
  • 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 around build-vs-buy decisions, technical tradeoffs, and long-term system maintainability
  • Experience working with cross-functional stakeholders outside engineering, including operations, manufacturing, warehouse, supply chain, quality, finance, or business systems teams
  • Ability to reason about permissions, auditability, traceability, genealogy, data ownership, error handling, observability, and supportability
  • Ability to operate as the first senior technical leader in a new function: hands-on, practical, and comfortable without a large team around them
  • Strong communication skills, including the ability to explain technical decisions clearly to non-technical stakeholders
  • Ability to work onsite with operational teams and support a fast-moving manufacturing environment

Nice to have
  • Experience with MES, manufacturing execution, shop-floor systems, QMS, WMS, ERP, CRM, or enterprise integrations
  • Experience in hardware, aerospace, defense, robotics, drones, logistics, electronics, or high-volume manufacturing environments
  • Experience with serialization, genealogy, traceability, routing, work orders, rework, material consumption, barcode scanning, or warehouse/manufacturing workflows
  • Experience with workflow systems, audit trails, RBAC, event-driven systems, message queues, ETL/ELT, CDC, or integration platforms
  • Experience building software in compliance-sensitive, audit-heavy, or regulated environments
  • Experience leading or mentoring engineers without needing to move fully into people management

US Salary Range

$100,000 - $190,000 USD

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are considered part of Neros' total compensation package.

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