Principal Software Engineer, Manufacturing Systems

Location: Onsite in Torrance, California, United States

Salary: $214,500–$300,000 USD annually, plus potential equity.

Company

hirify.global is a defense technology company designing and manufacturing high-performance unmanned systems at scale.

What you will do

• Own the technical architecture for internal manufacturing systems, MES workflows, integrations, and enterprise system boundaries.
• Design and build production software for work orders, routing, material issue and consumption, completion, serialization, genealogy, rework, and exception handling.
• Define boundaries and integration patterns across ERP, MES, QMS, CRM, internal applications, and operational data services.
• Establish engineering standards for APIs, data models, permissions, auditability, observability, testing, releases, and operational reliability.
• Partner with factory, quality, supply chain, warehouse, finance, and business systems stakeholders to translate operational complexity into usable software.
• Mentor future engineers and shape the technical culture of the Manufacturing Systems team.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 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 production systems experience.
• Experience with APIs, data models, service boundaries, integration patterns, and reliable system-to-system workflows.
• Strong judgment around build-versus-buy decisions, technical tradeoffs, maintainability, permissions, auditability, traceability, error handling, observability, and supportability.
• Ability to work onsite with operational teams in a fast-moving manufacturing environment.

Nice to have

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

Culture & Benefits

• Fast-paced, hands-on environment focused on moving capabilities from design to deployment.
• Highly competitive equity grants are part of the total compensation package.
• Equal opportunity workplace welcoming applicants regardless of protected characteristics.