Jobs at Hadrian

Leads the creation and scaling of Hadrian’s technical data modernization operation. Builds workflows, training, quality controls, hiring plans, and automation partnerships to convert legacy defense drawings and technical data into manufacturing-ready models. Manages throughput, quality, capacity, program schedules, data-handling requirements, and organizational growth. Hires and develops operational leaders while ensuring customer acceptance and efficient delivery across multiple defense programs.

Build and lead Hadrian’s enterprise Sales and Operations Planning function across sites. Establish governance, planning cadence, analytics, metrics, and decision-making forums; align demand, supply, capacity, finance, and operations. Own network site allocation, capacity modeling, load balancing, constraint management, and sellable capacity. Lead scenario planning and executive recommendations while hiring, coaching, and developing the S&OP team.

Supports the design, development, and ramp-up of advanced manufacturing lines. Reviews mechanical drawings for manufacturing feasibility, develops production workflows and tooling requirements, evaluates equipment and CapEx needs, coordinates with vendors, and contributes to automation and inspection planning. The role works closely with senior engineers and program teams across CNC machining, additive manufacturing, assembly, and other high-mix manufacturing processes, with approximately 25% travel for site visits and vendor interactions.

Supports the design, development, and ramp-up of advanced manufacturing lines for aerospace, defense, and critical infrastructure. Reviews drawings for manufacturability, develops production workflows and tooling requirements, researches capital equipment, coordinates with vendors, and contributes to automation and inspection planning. The role involves collaboration with senior engineers and program leads, hands-on problem solving, and approximately 25% travel for site visits and vendor interactions.

Senior Product Designer who will design tools, automations, and end-to-end workflows for Hadrian’s AI-powered factory operating system. The role partners with engineering and factory operations, researches complex customer problems, prototypes in Figma and code, ships production features, and measures business impact. Experience with industrial software, AI-powered products, agent-driven workflows, or production coding is advantageous. The position is based in Los Angeles and supports aerospace and defense manufacturing.

Leads Forward Deployed Engineering programs from discovery through production, owning technical roadmaps, delivery, architecture, customer and government relationships, and platform feedback. Builds and manages engineering, product, and design teams while maintaining hands-on technical involvement. The role requires strong product judgment, executive communication, zero-to-one product development, AI fluency, hiring ability, and experience operating in ambiguous, high-stakes environments involving aerospace, defense, manufacturing, hardware, and software.

Leads Forward Deployed Engineering teams delivering technical outcomes for major government, defense, and manufacturing programs. Owns technical roadmaps, product scope, architecture, production delivery, executive customer relationships, and platform feedback. Builds and manages engineering, product, and design teams while remaining hands-on in early-stage development and technical reviews. Requires strong product judgment, AI fluency, executive communication, zero-to-one product experience, and the ability to operate across hardware, software, and manufacturing.

Own workforce training systems and documentation for manufacturing operations. Structure capability information into skills matrices, evaluations, compliance courses, and standard documentation; manage revisions and version control; create process documentation and trainee handbooks; administer LMS content and skills data; maintain certification records and documentation hygiene; and ensure materials are accurate, organized, accessible, and audit-ready. Collaborate with training specialists, subject-matter experts, engineers, and governance teams to translate process knowledge into clear training content.

Owns the design, planning, and scaling of Tube Bending manufacturing and inspection lines. Responsibilities include drawing and manufacturability reviews, CapEx planning, vendor selection, costing, automation guidance, and production process development. The role supports new factory launches, customer solutions, and aerospace or defense manufacturing programs. Travel to Department of Defense and prime facilities is approximately 25%.

Own capital equipment delivery from purchase through installation, managing schedules, third-party logistics providers, suppliers, freight, shipping, receiving, and installation coordination. Communicate risks and schedule changes to leadership and cross-functional stakeholders, align requirements, and resolve delivery issues. The role requires strong project management, detailed tracking, autonomous execution, and supplier coordination in a fast-growing manufacturing environment.

Develops scalable sheet metal manufacturing processes for complex aerospace and defense parts. Responsibilities include analyzing CAD and engineering data, creating process routings and cycle-time estimates, defining equipment, tooling, inspection, staffing, layouts, and quality plans, and managing process definition through production ramp. The role collaborates cross-functionally, improves manufacturability, mitigates risks, and supports schedule recovery and new factory or production-line launches.

Develop software interfaces for industrial machines, PLCs, and manufacturing equipment. Build human-machine interfaces, device data logging pipelines, and integrations for autonomous manufacturing systems. Collaborate with robotics, mechanical, controls, and operations teams to deploy and upgrade manufacturing cells. The role involves hands-on factory-floor hardware work and travel up to 10% annually.

Own cross-functional infrastructure programs spanning capacity planning, reliability, builder tools, identity and access, and corporate IT. Manage hardware procurement and provisioning, incident and root-cause programs, AI development tooling adoption, and account and device lifecycles. Drive programs from discovery through execution, influence teams without direct authority, define TPM practices, and coordinate infrastructure needs across factories, offices, and engineering. Travel to new sites may be required for hardware assessments.

Own end-to-end growth and performance marketing campaigns across paid social, search, programmatic, email, web, and out-of-home channels. Build creative, landing pages, tracking, reporting, and testing programs; manage budgets and optimize toward qualified applicants and hires. Partner with recruiting, design, content, communications, and experiential marketing to support hiring priorities and technical and skilled-trade audiences. Establish attribution, funnel reporting, and campaign infrastructure from scratch.

Own Hadrian’s visual brand as its first dedicated Brand Designer. Produce campaign, out-of-home, digital, recruiting, event, environmental, merchandise, and presentation assets while building a scalable brand system, templates, and design operating model. Direct external partners, art direct factory photography and video, ensure production quality, and establish the visual language for industrial manufacturing. Partner with marketing, communications, and talent brand teams to maintain consistency and support performance-driven creative.

Own Hadrian’s paid sponsorships, media partnerships, co-marketing relationships, and institutional partnerships end to end. Responsibilities include sourcing, evaluating, negotiating, activating, measuring, and renewing deals; managing budgets, agencies, partners, and deliverables; developing partnerships with educational, workforce, industry, and community organizations; and creating rigorous processes for portfolio evaluation and performance tracking.

Own Hadrian’s experiential marketing portfolio, including strategy, event calendar, budget, vendors, production, staffing, and measurement. Lead flagship launches, factory experiences, recruiting events, executive hosting, and conference participation. Build repeatable event formats, operating infrastructure, and performance metrics while partnering with recruiting, communications, executives, government relations, and site leadership. The role requires frequent travel and evening or weekend work, with attention to safety, export-control, and production constraints.

Leads accounting systems transformation and finance automation, including NetSuite and Salesforce optimization, AI agent deployment, integrations, reporting, and internal tooling. Owns project plans, testing, training, go-live, controls, and executive reporting while partnering with engineering and cross-functional teams. Identifies automation opportunities, pilots AI vendors, supports SOX requirements, and trains finance staff on new workflows.

Build and operate workforce and workload identity systems across corporate, cloud, and factory environments. Own SSO, MFA, provisioning, access lifecycles, privileged access, secrets, service identities, authorization, and cloud IAM. Automate joiner-mover-leaver processes and access reviews while implementing least-privilege controls. Partner with security detection, compliance, and FSO teams to make identity telemetry actionable and audit-ready. This is a hands-on role requiring strong software engineering and identity protocol expertise.

Build financial models for factory investments, manufacturing capabilities, and customer programs. Evaluate ROI, payback, cash flow, capacity, and operational economics; support M&A, joint ventures, capital markets, and diligence; maintain forecasts and budgets; identify program risks; and prepare executive and board materials. Partner cross-functionally with engineering, manufacturing, accounting, legal, and leadership to turn ambiguous analyses into investment decisions.