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Salary: USD 130,000 - 197,000 / 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 mission-critical systems up to 10x faster and at significantly lower cost. The company recently closed a $1.37B Series D at a $7.87B valuation and is rapidly expanding manufacturing capabilities across welding, casting, forging, electronics, and additive manufacturing.
The Growth Finance Associate role sits at the front end of every program, owning the economics of how Hadrian wins work. You will be the analytical center of pursuit work, building financial models from a blank sheet that determine unit economics, capacity and capex requirements, rate and margin structure, and the returns case that informs bidding decisions. You'll pressure-test assumptions, develop a point of view on program viability, and help structure partnership and joint venture vehicles including term sheets, waterfall mechanics, and counterparty diligence.
Key responsibilities include:
- Building and owning financial models for major capital decisions including factory builds, new capability investments, and program-level spend, with scenario modeling and cash flow forecasting
- Conducting end-to-end financial evaluation of individual investments with transaction-level rigor (ROI, payback period, cash impact, trade-offs)
- Supporting corporate development and capital markets work spanning M&A, carve-outs, equity investments, and joint ventures
- Acting as financial counterpart to engineering, manufacturing, and program leadership, translating engineering ideas into structured financial analysis
- Maintaining forecasts and consolidated budgets aligned to accounting frameworks and operational milestones
- Providing real-time insight into program performance, surfacing risks and opportunities early
- Analyzing operational drivers of factory economics: labor productivity, machine utilization, throughput, unit cost
- Creating executive and board-facing materials that compress complex analysis into actionable insights
- Improving financial reporting, forecasting processes, automation, and data infrastructure
- Working cross-functionally across Production Operations, Engineering, Program Management, Automation, Accounting, Legal, and Investor Relations
This is a small team with a short path to owning deals outright. Work scales with demonstrated capability rather than tenure.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 2-5 years of experience in strategic finance, FP&A, investment banking, private equity, growth equity, private credit, management consulting, corporate development, or strategy & operations
- Ability to build complex financial models from a blank page, with cash flow forecasting and scenario analysis as core competencies
- Demonstrated ability to carry ambiguous, cross-functional work to decision without close management
- Strong written and verbal communication; ability to compress complex analysis for senior leader action
- High ownership and genuine curiosity about physical manufacturing; comfort iterating when wrong
- Ability to manage multiple concurrent work streams
- U.S. Person status required for access to export-controlled data
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience in capital-intensive industries (aerospace and defense, advanced manufacturing, automotive, semiconductors, energy, data centers)
- Project finance, capital project analysis, or large-scale infrastructure experience
- M&A due diligence, transaction structuring, carve-outs, or restructuring experience
- Exposure to program management or large-scale project delivery
- High-growth or PE/VC-backed environment experience
- Knowledge of government contracting processes
- NetSuite or comparable ERP experience
