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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.\nAs drones transform the character of warfare, Neros is delivering the systems the West needs to compete on the modern battlefield and deter the adversaries of democracy. We’re hiring engineers, operators, and builders who want to move fast, take on extreme ownership, and get capability into the hands of warfighters in months, not years.\nWhat you will be doing\nOwn technical architecture for internal manufacturing systems, MES workflows, integrations, and enterprise system boundaries\nDesign and build production software for factory execution, including work orders, routing, material issue/consume, completion, serialization, genealogy, rework, and exception handling\nDefine system boundaries across ERP, MES, QMS, CRM, internal applications, integrations, and operational data services\nEstablish engineering standards for APIs, data models, permissions, audibility, observability, testing, release management, and operational reliability\nBuild integration patterns that are reliable, supportable, and resilient to future system changes\nPartner directly with factory, quality, supply chain, warehouse, finance, and business systems stakeholders to translate operational complexity into simple, usable software\nMentor future engineering hires and help shape the technical culture of the Manufacturing Systems team\nYou should have the following\n8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant backend, platform, internal tools, systems, or infrastructure work\nExperience designing, building, and shipping production software in ambiguous or fast-changing environments\nStrong hands-on coding ability and recent experience contributing to production systems\nExperience designing APIs, data models, service boundaries, integration patterns, and reliable system-to-system workflows\nStrong judgment around build-vs-buy decisions, technical tradeoffs, and long-term system maintainability\nExperience working with cross-functional stakeholders outside engineering, including operations, manufacturing, warehouse, supply chain, quality, finance, or business systems teams\nAbility to reason about permissions, auditability, traceability, genealogy, data ownership, error handling, observability, and supportability\nAbility to operate as the first senior technical leader in a new function: hands-on, practical, and comfortable without a large team around them\nStrong communication skills, including the ability to explain technical decisions clearly to non-technical stakeholders\nAbility to work onsite with operational teams and support a fast-moving manufacturing environment\nNice to have\nExperience with MES, manufacturing execution, shop-floor systems, QMS, WMS, ERP, CRM, or enterprise integrations\nExperience in hardware, aerospace, defense, robotics, drones, logistics, electronics, or high-volume manufacturing environments\nExperience with serialization, genealogy, traceability, routing, work orders, rework, material consumption, barcode scanning, or warehouse/manufacturing workflows\nExperience with workflow systems, audit trails, RBAC, event-driven systems, message queues, ETL/ELT, CDC, or integration platforms\nExperience building software in compliance-sensitive, audit-heavy, or regulated environments\nExperience leading or mentoring engineers without needing to move fully into people management\nUS Salary Range\n$214,500-$300,000 USD\nThe salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. 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