Technical Program Manager, Hadrian
Infra
$164-243k
Autonomous factories for aerospace components
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Autonomous factories for aerospace components
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$164-243k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To build the planet's most efficient factory to accelerate a democratic, abundant, spacefaring future.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years in technical program management, including several owning infrastructure programs at the scale of a domain rather than a workstream inside one
- Hands-on experience with hardware procurement and provisioning
- Experience driving programs end-to-end from 0 → 1. You are not just a facilitator, but a complete owner end-to-end
- Strong written communication favoring asynchronous updates over synchronous meetings
- Able to influence without authority across functions and teams both within and external to your domain
- Able to balance planning with long lead times with company-wide strategic pivots
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience
- Willingness to travel. New locations are being spun up, and site walks may be necessary to understand hardware needs
Desirable
- Knows how to uplevel themselves using AI without dumping slop on their stakeholders
- Knows how to bring efficiency over process for process' sake. Doing this requires a broad toolkit vs always bringing a hammer regardless of the problem context
- Experience in mixed hardware/software environments such as aerospace, defense, automotive, semiconductor, or another regulated, high-precision manufacturing environment
- Extreme comfort with ambiguity and minimal direction. You balance analysis paralysis with data gathering and ask questions as you go to ensure you are working on the right work in the right way
- Technically fluent enough to influence design discussions in the domain (kubernetes, networking, pipelines, etc)
What the job involves
- Technical Program Managers (TPMs) exist to make cross functional and cross organizational work land
- A TPM owns the outcome across teams that do not report to each other, holds the dependencies nobody else is holding, and makes progress visible without pushing reporting overhead onto the teams doing the work
- TPMs are not just stenographers or status chasers, but end-to-end problem solvers from discovery -> execution
- As a jack or jill of all traits, TPMs get the job done no matter the hurdles in their way
- As the Infrastructure TPM, you will own the programs that span capacity, reliability, identity, builder tools, and corporate IT
- Your partners are Infrastructure Engineering, IT, Security, and the factory and engineering teams that depend on them
- You will join a small TPM function that is still defining how it works
- From managing capacity to transforming our AI development process, you will be at the heart of platform initiatives that improve the company’s operations
- Capacity: Own the capacity process from forecasting through ordering to provisioning, across factories, offices, and engineering
- Reliability: Mature the reliability program: incident management, RCA reviews, and action item tracking across the company
- Builder tools: Drive adoption of the builder tool suite that puts AI into how Hadrian designs, writes, reviews, and ships software
- Identity and access: Own account, access, and device lifecycle as headcount and sites grow
- Function building: Help define what TPM means at Hadrian, leading by example
Our take
Hadrian is an industrial automation company that creates autonomous factories for aerospace components. The inspiration for Hadrian was the notion that throughout history, empires begin to fall when they outsource their core industries to lower-cost countries, resulting in internal stagnation and mass unemployment.
To counter this historic trend, Hadrian was founded, which uses machine learning to automate the processes of component factories. It targets aerospace and defence, which are areas in which the USA relies on boutique experts who lack the manpower to build at scale. Its solution addresses bottlenecks in manufacturing that slow down progress, improving efficiency and capacity.
With strong investment, Hadrian is setting a precedent for a new era of machine work innovation. Its main challenge remains to convince smaller manufacturers to embrace the precision and time-saving benefits of automation. It is investing in team and product growth, including the launch of an additive manufacturing division that will deliver scalable and production-ready capacity for the US defense sector and allied partners.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jul 2025
$260m
SERIES C
Feb 2024
$93.6m
SERIES B
Total funding: $490.6m
Company benefits
- 100% coverage of platinum medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans for employees 401k
- Relocation stipend if you’re moving from outside of LA
- Flexible vacation policy
Company HQ
Hermosa Beach, CA
Leadership
Chris Power
(CEO & CPO)Previously Managing Partner at ADSC, Contributor and Advisor at Open Lunar Foundation and Head of Growth at Ento.com.
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