Lead Software Engineer, Hadrian
Factory Core
$200-270k
More information about location
Autonomous factories for aerospace components
Job no longer available
Autonomous factories for aerospace components
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$200-270k
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
- Proven lead-level ownership of product domains and business-critical systems at scale, including technical strategy, prioritization, and sustained operational responsibility
- Strong experience building and evolving distributed systems in production, ideally across multiple sites, environments, or regions
- Excellent problem-solving skills: break down ambiguous, high-impact problems, navigate trade-offs, and make pragmatic decisions under constraints
- Exceptional communication and influence: align engineers, operators, and leadership; facilitate decisions; and keep stakeholders informed with clarity and precision
- Track record of leading critical initiatives across several teams and shipping high-quality outcomes in large, complex codebases
- Strong systems thinking: understand how services, data flows, and team boundaries interact, and use that understanding to prevent bottlenecks and future scaling issues
- Demonstrated ability to improve engineering effectiveness through better architecture, process, documentation, and mentoring
- Extensive experience shipping modern, full-stack applications (our front-ends are React/Typescript and back-ends are Go)
- Product-minded and user-driven, with a bias to action and a focus on getting to the right solution rather than being right
- Excited to work in a fast-paced environment with high-stakes and quick iteration cycles
- To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you 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
What the job involves
- As a Lead Fullstack Engineer, you will own a major domain within Flow and drive outcomes across multiple teams and factory sites
- We have a broad set of internal applications, with significant opportunities to redefine manufacturing software. No aerospace, defense, or manufacturing background required
- Flow is Hadrian's FactoryOS: a distributed, mission-critical software platform that coordinates how work is planned, executed, measured, and improved across many factories
- Flow is an interconnected platform of services, applications, data pipelines, and operational workflows that must evolve quickly without sacrificing reliability
- The scope of this role is product engineering leadership at organizational scale: shaping architecture and execution across multiple teams while maintaining high standards for quality, security, observability, and delivery
- Own and lead a major Flow domain end-to-end, from strategy and architecture through delivery, rollout, and long-term operation
- Architect distributed systems that operate reliably across many factories, balancing latency, resilience, data consistency, observability, and operational complexity
- Scope, architect, implement, and deploy critical full-stack applications that drive revenue and factory throughput
- Set technical direction for a product vertical, define roadmaps with stakeholders, and align engineering execution to measurable business outcomes
- Partner with internal and external customers, operators, and factory leadership to turn ambiguous problems into clear plans and shipped solutions
- Lead cross-team architecture and execution: clarify dependencies, sequence work, manage risk, and keep delivery momentum across shared systems
- Establish durable engineering practices across teams, including testing strategy, operational readiness, observability standards, and incident response playbooks
- Build and mentor senior engineers, raise review quality, and improve team execution through strong technical leadership
- Translate business priorities into technical plans and milestones, then drive delivery with clear ownership, sequencing, and accountability
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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