Director of Engineering, Hadrian
Builder Tools
$250-320k
+ Equity
Autonomous factories for aerospace components
Posted today
Autonomous factories for aerospace components
201-500 employees
Posted today
$250-320k
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To build the planet's most efficient factory to accelerate a democratic, abundant, spacefaring future.
Role
Who you are
- 8-12 years in software engineering, with 3-5+ years in engineering management
- Strong backend or platform engineering background with deep familiarity with modern SDLC systems
- Experience leading and scaling high-performing engineering teams
- Track record of delivering measurable improvements in engineering velocity or system reliability
- Ability to think in systems: understand the end-to-end development lifecycle and identify where to optimize
- Experience with CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions, Buildkite, or similar), observability stacks (Datadog, Prometheus), and cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP, Kubernetes)
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
Desirable
- Hands-on experience implementing AI-assisted development workflows
- Familiarity with LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.) and AI coding tools (Copilot, Cursor, etc.)
- Experience with CI/CD optimization at scale
- Strong data-driven approach to measuring and improving developer productivity
- Ability to treat internal tooling as a product: clear users, defined impact, feedback loops
- Experience driving adoption of new tools and workflows across engineering organizations
What the job involves
- Engineering velocity is a strategic advantage at Hadrian. As we scale our software organization, the quality of our tools, workflows, and development practices directly determines how fast we can move
- The Builder Tools team owns that surface area, working across the entire SDLC to reduce friction, accelerate delivery, and bring AI-assisted development practices to every engineering team
- As Director of Engineering, Builder Tools, you will lead a team of 6-10 engineers focused on engineering productivity, internal tooling, and AI-enabled development workflows
- Your users are Hadrian's engineers, and your mission is to make them faster and more effective. You will report to the VP of Engineering and partner closely with infrastructure, security, and product teams to drive improvements across CI/CD, testing, deployment, and observability
- This is a high-leverage role. The work you ship here touches every engineer at Hadrian
- Lead and grow a team of engineers focused on engineering productivity and internal developer tools
- Define and execute a roadmap to improve end-to-end SDLC efficiency and reliability (plan, build, test, deploy, observe)
- Drive adoption of AI-assisted development tools across engineering, from code assistants to LLM-powered workflows
- Identify bottlenecks in developer workflows and implement scalable, lasting solutions
- Improve CI/CD systems, testing frameworks, and deployment processes
- Establish metrics to measure developer productivity and system performance
- Partner with infrastructure, security, and product teams to improve delivery pipelines
- Hire, mentor, and develop engineers and tech leads
- Ensure high standards for reliability, scalability, and maintainability across internal tooling
- This role is a high-leverage position with significant room to grow. As Hadrian's engineering organization scales, the scope of this function expands with it. The natural trajectory leads toward a Manager-of-Managers role (M5) with broader ownership of the engineering productivity org and potential leadership of Hadrian's AI strategy for engineering
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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