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
In this role you'll define the technical direction for the infrastructure platform powering automated manufacturing across multiple factory sites. You'll shape the architecture spanning cloud, edge, and factory-floor systems, setting the standards, patterns, and engineering culture that the entire organization builds on. You'll move fluidly between strategy and implementation: one day driving a multi-cluster Kubernetes architecture decision, the next pairing on a Terraform module that makes it real. This role demands someone who has simplified complex systems at org scale, built platforms that engineers love to use, and grown the people around them. Not just shipped impressive infrastructure, but made everyone else's infrastructure better too.
What You’ll Do
Design and implement cloud infrastructure on AWS using Terraform/OpenTofu
Build and manage Kubernetes clusters (EKS in cloud, K0s/K3s at the edge)
Build CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows with GitHub Actions and ArgoCD
Develop reusable infrastructure patterns: Terraform modules, Helm charts, CUE schemas
Architect networking between sites, edge devices, and cloud
Implement monitoring and observability with Prometheus/Grafana and Datadog
Support edge computing and IoT device deployments on factory floors
Drive build-vs-buy decisions and technology evaluations
Establish engineering standards and best practices
Represent infrastructure in cross-functional architecture reviews
Make architecture decisions under ambiguity and document them as ADRs
Identify systemic operational gaps and drive automation that eliminates recurring toil
Participate in on-call rotation and incident response
Write clear documentation and runbooks
What We’re Looking For
8+ years in infrastructure or platform engineering
Demonstrated ability in infrastructure design across cloud, containers, and networking
Can go from architecture whiteboard to production implementation, and has done it repeatedly
Deep Terraform/IaC skills with module development and testing experience
Production Kubernetes experience including troubleshooting, scaling, and multi-cluster patterns
Strong security instincts: threat modeling, least privilege, compliance fundamentals
Track record of building reusable patterns that other engineers adopt
History of reducing complexity, not just adding capability
Strong documentation and communication skills
Comfortable mentoring teammates and sharing knowledge
What Will Set You Apart
Deep hands-on experience with Terraform module architecture and testing
Background building CI/CD platforms, not just pipelines
Experience with edge or IoT infrastructure in manufacturing, defense, or robotics
Track record of reducing infrastructure complexity, not just adding to it
History of building patterns that other teams adopted organically
Compensation
For this role, the target salary range is $175,000 - $285,000 (actual range may vary based on experience).
This is the lowest to highest salary we reasonably and in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the range may be modified in the future. An employee's pay position within the salary range will be based on several factors, including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.
Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans for employees
401k
Relocation support may be provided for certain situations, based on business need.
Flexible vacation policy
Equity
To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen or national, lawful permanent resident, protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.
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Hadrian will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of all applicable laws. We do not ask about criminal history on our application, and we do not consider criminal history before making a conditional offer of employment.
Hadrian does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, marital status, mental status, physical disability or any other legally protected status. When necessary, the Company also makes reasonable accommodations for disabled candidates and employees, including for candidates or employees who are disabled by pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions.