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

Hadrian is building and expanding factories and offices across the country, both greenfield (new construction) and brownfield (retrofits of existing buildings). As our IT Infrastructure Project Manager, Site Buildouts, you'll own the technology scope of these projects from the first site survey to the day the building goes live.

You'll partner with Security, Workplace, and Factory Development to define what each site needs, then work with architects, designers, the General Contractor, and trades like cabling vendors and electricians to design, procure, and build it. You won't pull every cable yourself, but you need to understand IT cabling, electrical, HVAC, networking, AV, and low-voltage security well enough to catch a bad design before it gets built.

Hadrian moves fast, and requirements are often still taking shape when a project kicks off. You'll run several projects at once and be expected to fill in the gaps: ask the right questions, recommend a path, and keep things moving. You'll use AI tools every day to help you keep up.

This is a full-time, on-site role based at our Torrance, CA HQ with 25-50% travel to project sites. It reports to David Chen, Director of IT.

What You'll Do

Requirements & Design

Partner with Security, Workplace, and Factory Development to define each site's technology requirements (security systems and CMMC controls, offices and AV, production lines and shop-floor connectivity) and turn them into one agreed-upon IT scope

When requirements are unclear, propose a recommended approach, document assumptions, and drive decisions

Work with engineering teams to define MDF and IDF requirements: location, rack layout, power (circuits, receptacle types, UPS, and PDUs), cooling, and fiber and copper backbone

Represent IT through each design phase (schematic design, design development, and construction documents), translating Hadrian standards into design requirements for architects and engineers

Review drawings, panel schedules, RFIs, and submittals for cabling, power, HVAC, AV, and security

Assess existing infrastructure on brownfield sites and plan phased cutovers that keep the business running

Site Surveys & Inspections

Lead site surveys of new and prospective sites: existing cabling, electrical, HVAC, telecom rooms, carrier availability, and wireless coverage

Walk active construction at key milestones to confirm cabling, power, cooling, and low-voltage work is built to spec while the walls are still open

Document findings, track deficiencies, and follow up with the GC and vendors until they are fixed

Procurement & Vendor Management

Own the IT budget for each project and manage change orders

Write statements of work (SOWs) for low-voltage cabling and AV vendors that clearly define scope, deliverables, standards, schedule, and acceptance criteria

Review vendor proposals and SOWs for gaps, exclusions, and assumptions before they are signed