Principal Infrastructure Engineer, Hadrian
$250-320k
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Autonomous factories for aerospace components
Open for applications
Autonomous factories for aerospace components
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$250-320k
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To build the planet's most efficient factory to accelerate a democratic, abundant, spacefaring future.
Role
Who you are
- 10-15+ years in infrastructure or platform engineering
- Expert-level 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
Desirable
- Experience defining infrastructure strategy and technical direction for an engineering org
- Track record of driving platform adoption across multiple teams without direct authority
- Background operating at scale: multi-site deployments, 20+ consuming teams, or similarly demanding environments
- History of mentoring senior engineers into technical leaders
- Deep experience with architecture trade-offs in hybrid cloud/edge environments
- Demonstrated ability to simplify systems and retire tools that no longer serve the org
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
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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