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Hadrian is building autonomous factories to reindustrialize American manufacturing, combining AI, advanced software, robotics, and full-stack manufacturing to help aerospace and defense companies build rockets, satellites, aircraft, and mission-critical systems up to 10x faster and at lower cost. The company recently raised $1.37B in Series D funding at a $7.87B valuation and is rapidly expanding manufacturing capabilities across welding, casting, forging, electronics, and additive manufacturing.
The Applications Engineering team develops novel 0-1 machining solutions to scale Hadrian's Factory-as-a-Service platform across multiple US locations. As an Applications Engineer, you will execute the machining roadmap, working closely with CAM Operations, Software Engineering, and Robotics teams to push the boundaries of autonomous manufacturing at scale.
Key responsibilities include: developing manufacturing processes for complex aerospace and defense components (machining strategy, tooling, workholding, probing, inspection); taking new product introduction parts from print to production for new customers and materials; building automation and process control workflows that enable lights-out production; setting machine, tooling, and process standards across Hadrian factories; diagnosing high-impact production failures and implementing systemic fixes; serving as a subject matter expert on tooling, machine selection, and process engineering; and supporting factory launches and production stabilization.
You'll tackle technical challenges including autonomous manufacturing workflows with minimal operator intervention, automated metrology and closed-loop process control, process standards across different machine platforms, manufacturing observability and diagnostics, lights-out production of complex aerospace components, first-part introduction of high-risk components and new materials (high-temp aerospace alloys), and deployment of proven capabilities from the Los Angeles factory to the new Mesa facility.
Within 12 months, you can expect to ship new manufacturing capabilities into production, establish standards adopted across multiple machines or factories, automate previously manual engineering workflows, reduce engineering time for new part launches, improve throughput/quality/reliability on production cells, and contribute to factory launches or major capability deployments.
Required qualifications: track record solving difficult manufacturing problems and building production-grade technical systems; depth in one or two areas (machining, manufacturing engineering, automation, robotics, metrology, simulation, tooling, or manufacturing software); working knowledge of machining fundamentals (tooling, workholding, GD&T, inspection, process validation); ability to diagnose problems across process, equipment, software, and operational causes; clear communication with machinists, engineers, and factory leadership.
Desirable experience: multi-axis CNC machining, mill-turn, or production experience with titanium and Inconel; CAM programming (hyperMILL, NX, Mastercam); macro programming on Heidenhain or Fanuc controllers; automated metrology, in-process inspection, SPC, load monitoring, or tool life monitoring; palletized automation, robotic machine tending, or lights-out production; software/data skills for manufacturing (Python, version control, production data analysis); simulation and modeling (cutting dynamics, tap testing, FEA); aerospace, defense, semiconductor, medical, or energy industry experience; self-built machines, tools, software, or businesses.
