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About the Role

Forward Deployed Engineers embed on enterprise customer programs, configuring and integrating Hadrian's software and robotics platform, and building new products at the edge. You will drive the full loop from discovery to deployment, with no layers between you and the customer, spending most of your time building and defining the future of the team.

Responsibilities

• Work a program end to end — from the first ambiguous conversation through discovery, build, deployment, and iteration.
• Communicate across the full stakeholder range — customer leadership, program managers, and the operators and engineers on both their team and Hadrian's — translating technical constraints into decisions non-technical stakeholders can act on.
• Partner with the teams building Opus to go deep where a program needs it — architecting the integrations, data models, and configuration that let the platform run against a customer's real systems and production reality.
• Build net-new software to make programs succeed — standalone applications, custom workflows, and integrations that solve problems Opus doesn't yet cover.
• Ship fast and iterate. Get something working into users' hands early rather than perfecting in isolation.
• Turn field learnings into platform direction. Feed concrete requirements back to the Opus teams and help decide when a one-off solution should graduate into the platform.

Requirements

• Strong builder with high ownership — comfortable going 0 to 1 and shipping in ambiguous environments where no one hands you the spec.
• AI-native, and relentless about it. We're looking for ridiculously high-pace, high-agency engineers who use AI to compress everything — discovery, prototyping, execution.
• Comfortable across the whole stack — everything from UI/UX work to designing backend systems, reaching for whatever technology best fits the problem rather than defaulting to what you know.
• Strong product instincts. You think about what to build, not just how to build it.
• Experience working directly with customers or end users, translating ambiguous needs into concrete, shipped solutions.
• Communication range. You can engage operators and program managers on the factory floor and senior program stakeholders in the same week, and translate complex technical constraints into terms that drive non-technical decisions.
• Driven by the mission and the tempo. You get energized by the impact you're having on the programs you work on, and you care deeply about delivering at the pace our customers need.
• Founder or founding-engineer experience — you've taken a new product zero to one.
• Prior forward-deployed, solutions engineering, or technical consulting experience — you've built directly against messy customer reality before.
• Domain background in aerospace, defense, or manufacturing — or anywhere hardware and software have to meet.
• A visible body of work — a strong GitHub presence or a portfolio of projects you've shipped outside of work.
• Must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., 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.

Skills

• AI
• UI/UX
• Backend systems design
• GitHub

Location

• Los Angeles (Torrance)
• San Francisco Bay Area

Work Type

• Onsite
• Hybrid

Experience Level

• Founding engineer
• Forward-deployed engineer
• Solutions engineer
• Technical consultant

Salary/Compensations

• $120,000 - $250,000

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans
• 401k
• Relocation support may be provided
• Flexible vacation policy
• Equity

About the Company

• Hadrian is building autonomous factories that help aerospace and defense companies manufacture rockets, satellites, jets, and ships up to 10x faster and up to 2x cheaper.
• By combining advanced software, robotics, and full-stack manufacturing, we are reinventing how America produces its most critical parts.
• We’re accelerating our mission with the launch of Factory 3 in Mesa, Arizona, a 290,000-square-foot facility creating 350 new jobs.
• We are expanding rapidly to support thousands of future hires, launching Hadrian Maritime to expand into naval production, and introducing a Factory-as-a-Service model that delivers complete systems instead of individual parts.
• Hadrian is backed by leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Lux Capital, Founders Fund, and Andreessen Horowitz, our fast-growing team is united around reindustrializing American manufacturing for the 21st century and beyond.

Equal Opportunity

• Hadrian Is An Equal Opportunity Employer
• It is the Company’s policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees.
• The Company does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race inclusive of traits historically associated with race (including, but not limited to, hair texture and protective hairstyles, such as braids, locks and twists), color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, national origin (including, in California, possession of a drivers license), ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, height or weight, medical condition, family care status, military or veteran status, marital status, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, exercise of reproductive rights, any other basis protected by local, state, or federal laws, or any combination of the above characteristics.
• 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.