Electrical Engineer, Hadrian
$140-230k
Autonomous factories for aerospace components
Open for applications
Autonomous factories for aerospace components
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$140-230k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To build the planet's most efficient factory to accelerate a democratic, abundant, spacefaring future.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering or equivalent hands-on + credentials
- 3+ years designing and commissioning industrial control panels for automated machinery
- Fluent in EPLAN Electric P8 or AutoCAD Electrical (SolidWorks Electrical considered)
- Experience with at least one of Rockwell / Siemens / Beckhoff / Yaskawa VFD and servo drives
- Working knowledge of NFPA 79, UL 508A, IEC 60204-1, NFPA 70E, and ISO 13849 / IEC 62061 safety-function design
- Proven experience wiring and commissioning panels on the floor — not just drawing them
- Comfortable reading scope / clamp-meter traces and debugging drives, ground loops, and power quality
Desirable
- Licensed PE (Electrical) or on the PE track
- Led an arc-flash study end-to-end in SKM or EasyPower
- Built or maintained a company-wide electrical standards / panel library
- Industrial networks experience at the physical layer — EtherCAT, EtherNet/IP, Profinet, IO-Link
- High-energy / high-current experience (battery, welding, induction, or similar)
- Experience supporting a greenfield factory power distribution build-out
What the job involves
- We are seeking an Electrical Engineer to join Hadrian's Special Projects division
- This role is focused on machine build, panel layouts, and industrial systems — you will own the electrical design and build of our robotic machining cells: control panel layout and build, machine wiring and harnesses, drive systems, safety circuits, and cell-level industrial power distribution
- You will install and commission on the floor, not throw drawings over the wall
- This is not a board-level / PCB design role — we are looking for an industrial / machine-build EE who has spent time inside real cells, panels, and control cabinets
- You will partner directly with mechanical, controls, and operations engineers to take cells from clean-sheet concept through volume production, and set the industrial electrical standards the rest of the automation team inherits
- Design control panels and machine harnesses for robotic machining cells to NFPA 79, UL 508A, and IEC 60204-1
- Specify and integrate VFDs, servo drives, safety-rated relays / controllers, E-stops, light curtains, and interlocks
- Design and document 480 V / 208 V / 120 V AC distribution and 24 V DC logic, including transformer / disconnect / UPS sizing
- Run arc-flash analysis and NFPA 70E labeling for every cell
- Commission panels and harnesses on the floor — megger, hipot, continuity, insulation, LOTO walkdowns
- Codify electrical standards — labeling, wire colors, fuse strategies, grounding — into a reusable library
- Be the on-call electrical owner when a cell goes down; chase drives, power quality, grounding, and harnesses to root cause
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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