Hadrian - Manufacturing the Future

Hadrian is building autonomous factories to reindustrialize America. By combining AI, advanced software, robotics, and full-stack manufacturing, we help aerospace and defense companies build rockets, satellites, aircraft, ships, and other mission-critical systems up to 10x faster and at significantly lower cost.

Following our $1.37B Series D at a $7.87B valuation, Hadrian is rapidly expanding our manufacturing footprint, launching new capabilities across welding, casting, forging, electronics, additive manufacturing, and more, while scaling our Factory-as-a-Service platform to transform how critical products are built.

Backed by leading investors including JPMorgan Chase, Valor Equity Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund, 137 Ventures, Lux Capital, T. Rowe Price, and Morgan Stanley, we’re building the future of American manufacturing—and looking for exceptional people to help make it happen.

If you’re ready to take on the most challenging and rewarding work of your career while helping create American manufacturing jobs for generations to come, you’re exactly who we’re looking for.

The Role

Applied Physical Systems is a small, cross-functional engineering team at Hadrian. We build technology that spans more than one manufacturing capability, needs hardware and software designed together, and can't be bought off the shelf. We take a solution from proof of concept through prototype to a first production-ready version, then hand it to the teams that run it at scale. Engineers on the team design, build and commission their own systems on the factory floor.

You will own electromechanical tooling for robotic assembly processes, from concept to production. Typical weeks mixes systems engineering and detailed design, prototype testing with bring-up, work with motors, sensors, feedback controls, data analysis and modeling. You will work closely with the other cross-disciplinary engineers on the team, as well as with the automation engineers and technicians who integrate and operate what you build. You will also mentor engineers earlier in their careers through design reviews and hands-on work.

What You’ll Do

Design end-of-arm tooling (EOAT) and mechanisms for robotic processes, including compliant and force-sensing designs

Select and integrate motors, drives, sensors and actuators, from sizing through tuning

Develop motor control and sensing for precision electromechanical tools

Integrate tooling with industrial robot arms and with cell controls and safety systems

Build test stands and run experiments that turn sensor data into pass or fail criteria

Design fixtures, sensor mounts and tooling for robotic cells, and support their commissioning

Own design release, DFM and DFA with suppliers and with Hadrian's own factory

Lead installation, commissioning and validation on the factory floor, and mentor engineers earlier in their careers

What We’re Looking For

Bachelor's degree in engineering, physics, or computer science

Strong design intuition grounded in first-principles engineering judgment

Deep mechanical fundamentals, including statics, dynamics, materials, joints and tolerance analysis

Solid electrical fundamentals, including power distribution, motor drives and sensor wiring

Working knowledge of feedback control, including torque and position loops tuned on real hardware

Proven experience integrating motors, drives, sensors and mechanisms into industrial electromechanical systems

Experience selecting and integrating sensors such as torque transducers, load cells and encoders

Advanced skills in mechanism design and kinematics for high-uptime automation

Fluency in a parametric CAD tool such as SolidWorks, NX or Onshape

Daily use of AI tools for analysis, scripting and documentation, with experience reviewing and verifying outputs for quality and completeness

What Will Set You Apart

Breaking open-ended problems into scoped prototypes and experiments

Power electronics for motor drives, such as inverter stages and gate drivers