Senior Manufacturing Data Engineer—MES/ERP & Analytics

Dataroles; El Segundo, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 194,000 - 266,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401k with company match

FSA/HSA

Life insurance

Free daily lunch

No meeting Fridays

Unlimited PTO

Relocation assistance

Job summary

CHAOS Industries is scaling production of advanced defense systems and seeks a Data Engineer, Manufacturing to own the architecture, integration, and evolution of the systems that power manufacturing operations.

You will design MES, ERP, PLM, quality systems and analytics, ensuring end-to-end traceability and scalable data foundations for growth. This builder role requires deep data modeling and strong collaboration with cross‑functional teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Industrial Engineering, Engineering, Data Analytics, or a related technical discipline.
• Hands-on experience designing and building manufacturing or operational data systems—data models, pipelines, and integrations—that you personally architected and shipped.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the data models, schemas, and ontologies—and the pipelines and integrations—that power manufacturing execution, quality, supply chain, inventory, and production planning, independent of any single platform.
• Make manufacturing data trustworthy and traceable end-to-end—from shop-floor capture through reporting—with the data integrity and lot/serial traceability defense production demands.
• Integrate the manufacturing systems ecosystem—MES, ERP, PLM, quality, warehouse, and data platforms—into a coherent, queryable source of truth, and evolve that architecture as systems are added or replaced.
• Build the reporting and analytics backbone that turns operational data into a single operating picture: throughput, quality, labor, capacity, inventory, and on-time delivery.
• Own the technical vision and roadmap for manufacturing systems—defining how the data and systems layer scales to support significant production growth and future automation.
• Lead root-cause investigations into systems, data-quality, and reporting issues, and build the fixes that keep them closed.

Skills

SQL expertise

Data modeling (relational & time‑scale

Data pipelines & ETL

System integration & governance

Excellent communication

DoD clearance ability

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IS/Industrial Engineering/Engineering/Data Analytics

Master’s degree in a related field

12+ years experience in lieu of degree

Tools

First Resonance ION

NetSuite

Palantir Foundry

ERP/MES/PLM platforms

Job description

CHAOS Industries is scaling production of advanced defense systems and seeks a Data Engineer, Manufacturing to own the architecture, integration, and evolution of the systems that power manufacturing operations.

You will design MES, ERP, PLM, quality systems and analytics, ensuring end-to-end traceability and scalable data foundations for growth. This builder role requires deep data modeling and strong collaboration with cross‑functional teams.