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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. Following a $1.37B Series D at a $7.87B valuation, the company is rapidly expanding manufacturing capabilities across welding, casting, forging, electronics, and additive manufacturing.
In this role, you will own the connectivity and data integration layer across Hadrian's additive manufacturing (AM) fleet. Your responsibilities include:
**Core Responsibilities:**
- Build and maintain the connectivity layer across PC-based machine control systems, PLC-based subsystems, and vendor interfaces, including log, file, and tag-level data extraction where standard interfaces don't exist.
- Own canonical data models, schema governance, tag dictionaries, naming conventions, units, and versioning to enable scalable integration patterns across platforms and sites.
- Design, build, and operate telemetry and build data pipelines—transport, stream processing, buffering, and persistence into relational and time-series storage—with uptime, backfill, and data integrity guarantees required for qualification evidence.
- Define machine state models and integration with the OPUS platform, ensuring work dispatch, build record traceability across part, powder lot, machine, and operator.
- Define interface, control, and data requirements; flow them down to OEMs and internal engineering; verify delivery; and maintain change-controlled interface documentation (state models, command semantics, telemetry dictionaries, alarms, error handling, version history).
- Specify and integrate supplementary sensing, edge compute, and data acquisition where native machine data is insufficient.
- Partner with IT and Security to get machine controllers onto compliant networks—segmentation, remote access, patch/firmware management, and controller accreditation under NIST SP 800-171 and CMMC.
- Integrate machine and cell safety state into the control and platform layer; validate interlock behavior against aerospace and defense production requirements.
- Support commissioning, Factory Acceptance Test (FAT), and Site Acceptance Test (SAT) to ensure each machine meets Hadrian's integration standard before production release.
- Support build preparation and slicing toolchain integration—handoff from build preparation software into machine execution and back into the manufacturing record.
- Establish and maintain OEM relationships covering interface and data access, controller and firmware change management, calibration hooks, and serviceability.
- Supply data integrity, audit trail, and configuration control support for installation, operational, and performance qualification.
- Lead structured problem-solving on integration, connectivity, and data anomalies using 8D, 5 Whys, and corrective action driven to verified closure.
You will work on site full time in Torrance, California, with travel to Hadrian deployment sites and OEM facilities (up to 25%).
**Requirements:**
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Controls Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, Mechatronics, or related field.
- 5+ years connecting production manufacturing equipment to higher-level software systems (MES, SCADA, historian, or equipment and data platforms) with direct hands-on ownership of integration rather than oversight of an integrator.
- Hands-on fluency with industrial machine communication: OPC-UA and MQTT, plus at least one PLC platform at the tag and program level. Siemens S7 and TIA Portal strongly preferred; PROFINET, EtherNet/IP, or Modbus equivalents considered. Working familiarity with MTConnect and REST APIs.
- Demonstrated ability to integrate proprietary or undocumented OEM interfaces—working out log formats, file drops, and vendor data access where no standard protocol is available.
- Strong database engineering: relational schema design and SQL fluency, plus practical experience with time-series or historian storage for high-rate machine data. Schema migration and versioning experience required.
- Experience designing and operating data pipelines in production—message transport, stream or batch processing, and monitoring of the pipeline itself.
- Working proficiency in Python or equivalent for integration, parsing, and data tooling, with version control and code review discipline.
- Experience implementing or validating safety interlock systems in a production manufacturing environment.
- Demonstrated ability to define technical interface and data requirements, flow them down to equipment vendors and internal engineering teams, verify delivered systems against them, and keep change-controlled interface documentation current as systems evolve.
- Must be a U.S. person for ITAR purposes—a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or otherwise eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
**Preferred Qualifications:**
- Experience with metal additive manufacturing equipment—LPBF controller architecture, laser and scanner control, or in-process monitoring.
- Experience integrating equipment into MES or factory data platforms in aerospace or defense production.
- Experience with AM process data: in-situ monitoring, melt pool sensing, layer imaging, or scanner and galvanometer telemetry.
- Experience with OT network architecture and security in a regulated or defense manufacturing environment, including NIST SP 800-171 or CMMC.
- Exposure to polymer AM platforms alongside metal.
- Familiarity with aerospace and defense AM qualification data requirements—AMS7032, US Navy, or NIAR/NCAMP.
- Experience supporting installation and operational qualification from a controls and data integrity perspective.
