Jobs at Hadrian

Develops scalable sheet metal manufacturing processes for complex aerospace and defense parts. Responsibilities include analyzing CAD and engineering data, creating process routings and cycle-time estimates, defining equipment, tooling, inspection, staffing, layouts, and quality plans, and managing process definition through production ramp. The role collaborates cross-functionally, improves manufacturability, mitigates risks, and supports schedule recovery and new factory or production-line launches.

Develop software interfaces for industrial machines, PLCs, and manufacturing equipment. Build human-machine interfaces, device data logging pipelines, and integrations for autonomous manufacturing systems. Collaborate with robotics, mechanical, controls, and operations teams to deploy and upgrade manufacturing cells. The role involves hands-on factory-floor hardware work and travel up to 10% annually.

Own cross-functional infrastructure programs spanning capacity planning, reliability, builder tools, identity and access, and corporate IT. Manage hardware procurement and provisioning, incident and root-cause programs, AI development tooling adoption, and account and device lifecycles. Drive programs from discovery through execution, influence teams without direct authority, define TPM practices, and coordinate infrastructure needs across factories, offices, and engineering. Travel to new sites may be required for hardware assessments.

Own end-to-end growth and performance marketing campaigns across paid social, search, programmatic, email, web, and out-of-home channels. Build creative, landing pages, tracking, reporting, and testing programs; manage budgets and optimize toward qualified applicants and hires. Partner with recruiting, design, content, communications, and experiential marketing to support hiring priorities and technical and skilled-trade audiences. Establish attribution, funnel reporting, and campaign infrastructure from scratch.

Own Hadrian’s visual brand as its first dedicated Brand Designer. Produce campaign, out-of-home, digital, recruiting, event, environmental, merchandise, and presentation assets while building a scalable brand system, templates, and design operating model. Direct external partners, art direct factory photography and video, ensure production quality, and establish the visual language for industrial manufacturing. Partner with marketing, communications, and talent brand teams to maintain consistency and support performance-driven creative.

Own Hadrian’s paid sponsorships, media partnerships, co-marketing relationships, and institutional partnerships end to end. Responsibilities include sourcing, evaluating, negotiating, activating, measuring, and renewing deals; managing budgets, agencies, partners, and deliverables; developing partnerships with educational, workforce, industry, and community organizations; and creating rigorous processes for portfolio evaluation and performance tracking.

Lead Hadrian’s defense budget and topline strategy across the Pentagon, OMB, Congress, and military comptroller community. Manage execution-year budget intelligence, including apportionment, obligations, reprogramming, working capital funds, the organic industrial base, and the National Defense Stockpile. Advise executives, sales, capture, investors, and the board on federal budget risks and opportunities. Support legislative engagement and translate complex budget developments into business strategy.

Own Hadrian’s experiential marketing portfolio, including strategy, event calendar, budget, vendors, production, staffing, and measurement. Lead flagship launches, factory experiences, recruiting events, executive hosting, and conference participation. Build repeatable event formats, operating infrastructure, and performance metrics while partnering with recruiting, communications, executives, government relations, and site leadership. The role requires frequent travel and evening or weekend work, with attention to safety, export-control, and production constraints.

Leads accounting systems transformation and finance automation, including NetSuite and Salesforce optimization, AI agent deployment, integrations, reporting, and internal tooling. Owns project plans, testing, training, go-live, controls, and executive reporting while partnering with engineering and cross-functional teams. Identifies automation opportunities, pilots AI vendors, supports SOX requirements, and trains finance staff on new workflows.

Build and operate workforce and workload identity systems across corporate, cloud, and factory environments. Own SSO, MFA, provisioning, access lifecycles, privileged access, secrets, service identities, authorization, and cloud IAM. Automate joiner-mover-leaver processes and access reviews while implementing least-privilege controls. Partner with security detection, compliance, and FSO teams to make identity telemetry actionable and audit-ready. This is a hands-on role requiring strong software engineering and identity protocol expertise.

The Capability Development Specialist will document manufacturing processes by embedding with subject matter experts, producing comprehensive knowledge outputs for training.

Own on-site IT support for a new manufacturing facility, including endpoint lifecycle management, helpdesk ticket resolution, local network and infrastructure health, hardware deployment, vendor coordination, asset inventory, and construction buildout support. Enforce security tooling and support CMMC Level 2 compliance for CUI handling. Serve as the connection between site employees, Army facility personnel, vendors, central IT, infrastructure, and cybersecurity teams.

Own Hadrian’s headcount planning program end to end, coordinating People, Recruiting, Finance, Engineering, program leadership, and Workplace Services. Translate business and program demand into role-level hiring plans, reconcile forecasts with budgets, hand approved roles to Recruiting Operations, and manage recurring planning cadences. Drive change management, data quality, executive reporting, risk visibility, and adoption of a trusted workforce planning process.

Own day-to-day on-site IT operations for a precision manufacturing facility: endpoint lifecycle, local network/infrastructure health, ticketing in Jira Service Management, onboarding/offboarding, vendor and asset management, construction IT buildout support, security and CMMC Level 2 compliance coordination, and hiring/training a local IT team.

Build financial models for factory investments, manufacturing capabilities, and customer programs. Evaluate ROI, payback, cash flow, capacity, and operational economics; support M&A, joint ventures, capital markets, and diligence; maintain forecasts and budgets; identify program risks; and prepare executive and board materials. Partner cross-functionally with engineering, manufacturing, accounting, legal, and leadership to turn ambiguous analyses into investment decisions.

Leads the tooling engineering team responsible for designing, developing, validating, and continuously improving precision tooling for large-scale manufacturing. Sets technical strategy, manages tooling programs and suppliers, establishes engineering standards, and partners with manufacturing, quality, automation, and program teams. Provides technical guidance on high-load and high-temperature tooling while hiring, mentoring, and developing engineers.

Design and develop mechanical systems, machine assemblies, fixtures, tooling, and robotic end-of-arm tooling using 3D CAD. Produce manufacturing drawings, BOMs, and documentation applying GD&T and DFM. Support fabrication, machining, welding, assembly, prototyping, testing, commissioning, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Own and build Hadrian’s manufacturing security program for autonomous factories. Lead OT/ICS security architecture, network segmentation, industrial monitoring, identity and asset security, embedded and hardware security, factory assessments, and supply chain assurance. Protect production environments against cyber-physical attacks, insider threats, IP theft, tampering, and supply chain compromise while partnering with engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, security, and government stakeholders.

Own full-cycle recruiting for technical, business, or manufacturing functions. Partner with hiring leaders to define hiring needs, develop sourcing strategies, manage interviews, close complex offers, improve candidate experience, track recruiting metrics, and provide talent-market guidance. The role also contributes to employer branding and broader talent-process initiatives in a fast-growing manufacturing and technology company.

Source and engage candidates for engineering, manufacturing, and G&A roles. Build talent pipelines, develop talent maps, use automation and data-driven sourcing methods, partner with hiring managers, manage multiple requisitions, support inclusive hiring, and represent the company’s recruiting brand. The role requires strong stakeholder influence, technical recruiting knowledge, pipeline prioritization, and consultative communication skills.