Process Qualification Engineer, Additive Manufacturing Hardware

Process Qualification Engineer, Additive Manufacturing Lead qualification and inspection program for additive manufacturing processes and hardware

Location:

Los Angeles, California

Compensation: $135, USD / year

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.

Within Additive Manufacturing, you'll be the owner for quality and qualification. Qualification has long been one of the biggest hurdles standing in the way of additive being used at scale, and this role is full of opportunities to rethink how it's done and change the way qualification works for this industry going forward. This role is for someone ready to take on highly technical, independent work and be the backbone of how we prove out our processes and hardware.

• Own and execute all first article inspection plans for additive hardware, along with qualification validation and implementation.
• Define control plans and ensure specification compliance across powder, build, and post processing steps.
• Support root cause analysis and corrective action for additive builds and hardware issues as they arise.
• Act as the primary NDE owner for all additive processes, leading development of new inspection methods and techniques as our capabilities grow.
• Partner with quality and NDE to define inspection plans, acceptance criteria, and sampling strategies, driving measurement system analysis and validation of inspection methods as needed.
• Oversee quality for the team, including writing process control documents, and work with company quality executives to help integrate additive manufacturing into a broader, successful quality system.
• Serve as the team's point of contact for quality and supply chain, including working with external vendors on special process control, qualification, and continuous improvement across powder supply, post processing, coatings, and inspection services.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 5+ years of experience in a quality, qualification, or NDE focused role within manufacturing, with additive manufacturing experience strongly preferred.
• Hands on experience developing and executing first article inspection plans and qualification packages.
• Working knowledge of NDE methods such as CT, X-ray, penetrant, and ultrasonic inspection, including how to validate and apply them to additive hardware.
• Experience writing process control documentation and working cross functionally.

• Background managing supplier or vendor quality relationships, particularly for powder, post processing, or coatings.
• Familiarity with statistical sampling and measurement system analysis methodology.
• Experience supporting production scale up or new process introduction in a high rate manufacturing environment.
• Background in aerospace, aviation, defense, energy, or similar industries with high specification requirements.
• Familiarity with industry specialized material standards, certification requirements, or quality systems…