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Salary: USD 220,000 - 280,000 / annual
Hadrian is building autonomous factories to reindustrialize America, combining AI, advanced software, robotics, and full-stack manufacturing to help aerospace and defense companies build rockets, satellites, aircraft, ships, and other mission-critical systems up to 10x faster and at significantly lower cost. The company recently raised a $1.37B Series D at a $7.87B valuation and is rapidly expanding its manufacturing footprint and Factory-as-a-Service platform.
Flow is Hadrian's Factory Operation System: a distributed, mission-critical software platform that coordinates how work is planned, executed, measured, and improved across many factories. It is an interconnected platform of services, applications, data pipelines, and operational workflows that must evolve quickly without sacrificing reliability.
As Engineering Manager for Factory Core, you will lead engineering for one or more business domains within Flow, building a team that ships product, owns its systems in production, and works closely with stakeholders across the company. Factory Core runs the physical factory—the Manufacturing Execution System, Shop Floor experience, Inventory, and Warehouse Management. Every part Hadrian makes, moves, or ships passes through these systems, and operators on the floor depend on them every shift. The Factory Core team is at the center of scaling Hadrian's throughput for existing and new factories.
You will own one or more business domains end-to-end, including product outcomes, engineering execution, and ongoing operational health. You will hire, grow, and retain a strong team, set a clear bar, develop careers, and address performance directly. You will stay hands-on as a player-coach, driving architecture and design reviews, shipping code on real roadmap work, and jumping into production incidents with the team. You will partner with Product, Design, and Operations to shape the roadmap and turn business priorities into sequenced, shipped work. You will continuously improve the developer lifecycle your team operates in: planning, design, code review, testing, deployment, on-call, and incident response.
You should have 2-5+ years of engineering management experience leading product engineering teams in production, with a strong full-stack engineering background before that. You should have a history of owning business-critical product domains, including technical strategy, prioritization, delivery, and operational responsibility. You should have experience hiring, growing, and retaining strong engineers, and running a healthy team. You should have real product and customer instinct, understanding the product, the user, and the business, and pushing your team toward the right outcomes. You should have a clear point of view on the developer lifecycle and how to make each phase better. You should have systems thinking, understanding how services, data flows, and team boundaries interact. You should have experience leading or contributing to distributed systems in production, ideally across multiple sites, environments, or regions. You should have technical credibility, able to read, review, and write production code, lead architecture discussions, and earn the trust of senior engineers. You should have strong communication skills to align engineers, product partners, operators, and leadership. You should be comfortable working in a fast-moving environment with high stakes and short iteration cycles. No aerospace, defense, or manufacturing experience is required to excel in this role.
