Software Engineer, Hadrian
Builder Tools
$164.5-233k
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Building autonomous factories for aerospace components
Open for applications
Building autonomous factories for aerospace components
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$164.5-233k
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To build the planet's most efficient factory to accelerate a democratic, abundant, spacefaring future.
Role
Who you are
- 5–8 years of software engineering experience, with at least 2–3 years focused on CI/CD, developer tooling, or build infrastructure
- Hands-on experience building and maintaining complex CI/CD pipelines and build infrastructure — pipeline-as-code, artifact management, multi-environment deployments
- Strong programming fundamentals in Go, Python, TypeScript, or similar; track record of writing clean, maintainable, well-tested code
- Experience with Docker and container orchestration (Kubernetes or similar)
- Solid understanding of source control concepts and practical Git experience
- Proven ability to troubleshoot complex systems and resolve issues efficiently
- A developer empathy mindset: you build tools that are easy to adopt, well-documented, and reduce toil rather than create it
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
Desirable
- Genuine curiosity and hands-on experience with AI coding tools and agents — Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, or similar — and opinions about what makes them work well in a real codebase
- Experience building API-ready interfaces or harness tooling for AI coding agents
- Prior work on developer experience or engineering productivity programs
- Familiarity with GitOps principles and workflows
- Experience with static analysis, automated PR pipelines, or code review tooling
- Background in fast-paced or scaling startup environments
What the job involves
- As a Software Engineer on the Builder Tools team, you will build and maintain the CI/CD infrastructure, internal tooling, and AI-assisted development workflows that every engineering team at Hadrian depends on
- Your users are Hadrian's engineers, and your job is to make them faster
- That means owning shared pipeline libraries, reducing friction in the SDLC, making internal systems accessible to AI coding agents, and automating the work that slows teams down
- The systems you build touch every engineer at Hadrian, and the improvements you ship show up immediately in how fast the company moves
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipeline libraries that abstract build, release, and deployment events for use across multiple engineering teams
- Design and build internal tools, APIs, and CLI utilities that reduce developer friction and automate recurring engineering tasks — dependency upgrades, credential rotation, routine maintenance
- Help make Hadrian's internal systems API-ready for AI coding agents; build harness tooling, context systems, and feedback loops that improve the quality of AI-generated contributions in our codebase
- Instrument and monitor developer productivity systems; surface bottlenecks and measure the impact of tooling improvements through clear metrics
- Partner with application development teams to identify needs, implement CI/CD best practices, and drive adoption of new tooling across the org
- Join the on-call rotation to support systems and services during production incidents; contribute to root cause analyses and postmortems
- Participate in code reviews and author technical proposals that raise the engineering bar for the Builder Tools team
Our take
Hadrian is an industrial automation company that creates autonomous factories for aerospace components. Founded by a former history student, 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, founder Chris Power founded Hadrian, which uses machine learning to automate the processes of component factories. Power honed in on key US industries that were lacking in scalable solutions. Aerospace and defence is one area in which the USA relies on boutique experts who lack the manpower to build at scale. This factory automation solution addresses bottlenecks in manufacturing aerospace components that slow down progress due to owner-operated machine shops.
With investment from early Facebook and Airbnb investors Andreessen Horowitz, Hadrian is setting a precedent for a new era of machine work innovation. Hadrian’s main challenge will be convincing smaller manufacturers in the sector to embrace the precision and time-saving benefits of automation. With two factories now operational, Hadrian is using funding to continue its team and product growth, so as to meet the growing demand for component manufacturing.
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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