The posting, in Hadrian's own words
archived Oct 19, 2026Hadrian - Manufacturing the Future
Hadrian is building autonomous factories to reindustrialize America. By combining AI, advanced software, robotics, and full-stack manufacturing, we help aerospace and defense companies build rockets, satellites, aircraft, ships, and other mission-critical systems up to 10x faster and at significantly lower cost. Following our $1.37B Series D at a $7.87B valuation, Hadrian is rapidly expanding our manufacturing footprint, launching new capabilities across welding, casting, forging, electronics, additive manufacturing, and more, while scaling our Factory-as-a-Service platform to transform how critical products are built. Backed by leading investors including JPMorgan Chase, Valor Equity Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund, 137 Ventures, Lux Capital, T. Rowe Price, and Morgan Stanley, we’re building the future of American manufacturing—and looking for exceptional people to help make it happen. If you’re ready to take on the most challenging and rewarding work of your career while helping create American manufacturing jobs for generations to come, you’re exactly who we’re looking for.
The Role
The Operations Engineer partners cross-functionally with leaders and teams throughout the organization to solve messy problems, set up new processes, capture data, action upon it, and enable others to do the same. This position drives consistency and harmonization with frameworks, playbooks, templates, while maintaining velocity and focus on value. Understand the operational landscape in depth and create solutions to operationalize our Build – Edit – Scale strategy.
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Responsibilities
Develop and roll out business processes, frameworks, and resources across a diverse set of stakeholders and programs. Setup processes for integrated scheduling and planning, defining process across systems from a user perspective. Systematize and automate to efficiently scale. Foster adoption and make business processes and frameworks actionable by creating tactical resources to implement them. Champion best practices. Drive creation and validation of dashboards, metrics, and operations models, including for labor standards and capacity. Demonstrate what good looks like with proactive insights and driving outcomes. Build relationships and influence change. Collaborate closely with engineers, technicians, and program managers to deeply understand their pain points, needs, and workflows.