Senior Manager, Additive Materials & Process Laboratory

Hadrian - Manufacturing the Future

Hadrian is building autonomous factories that help aerospace and defense companies manufacture rockets, satellites, jets, and ships up to 10x faster and up to 2x cheaper. By combining advanced software, robotics, and full-stack manufacturing, we are reinventing how America produces its most critical parts.

We’re accelerating our mission with the launch of Factory 3 in Mesa, Arizona, a 290,000-square-foot facility creating 350 new jobs. We are expanding rapidly to support thousands of future hires, launching Hadrian Maritime to expand into naval production, and introducing a Factory-as-a-Service model that delivers complete systems instead of individual parts.

Hadrian is backed by leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Lux Capital, Founders Fund, and Andreessen Horowitz, our fast-growing team is united around reindustrializing American manufacturing for the 21st century and beyond.

Join us in shaping the future of aerospace and defense manufacturing. As the Senior Manager, Additive Materials & Process Laboratory, you will lead Hadrian’s Materials and Process (M&A) Laboratory, a comprehensive testing and characterization facility supporting additive manufacturing, welding, casting, forging, and supply chain quality activities. You will own laboratory operations, ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation, Nadcap accreditation in applicable disciplines, customer specification compliance, and the technical roadmap for laboratory automation across both software and hardware.

You will lead a team of laboratory engineers, technicians, and specialists responsible for delivering accurate, traceable, and timely test data that enables Hadrian to qualify materials, qualify processes, and release production hardware.

• Laboratory Leadership and Operations: Lead day-to-day operations of the M&A Laboratory across all functional areas. Build and lead a team of engineers, technicians, and specialists; set test priorities, manage capacity, define turnaround time targets, and ensure rigorous response to nonconformances and customer escapes.

• Accreditation and Customer Compliance: Drive ISO/IEC 17025 and Nadcap accreditation across the laboratory, including AC7101 and slash sheets for materials testing, and Heat Treating, NDT, or Chemical Processing where in scope. Maintain audit readiness, lead initial accreditation and successive surveillance assessments, and close findings within required timelines. Ensure the laboratory meets prime customer specifications (Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, RTX, GE Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, NAVSEA), and serve as the technical interface to customer quality representatives during audits and source visits.

• Mechanical Testing: Own all mechanical testing capability including tensile (room temperature, cryogenic, and elevated temperature), compression, Rockwell hardness, Vickers and Knoop microhardness, Charpy impact, fracture toughness, fatigue crack growth, low- and high-cycle fatigue, creep, weld bend testing, and PIP testing for additive feed stocks, in compliance with the applicable ASTM, AMS, ISO, and customer standards.

• Metallography and Advanced Characterization: Own metallographic preparation and inspection (sectioning, mounting, grinding and polishing, etching, optical microscopy on the Keyence platform) and advanced characterization (SEM, EDS, SEM, powder morphology). Define preparation procedures by alloy and product form, ensure operator qualification, and maintain instrument calibration and reference material traceability.

• Chemical and Physical Analysis: Own chemical analysis (OES, XRF, combustion analyzers for C/S and O/N/H) and physical testing (DSC, TGA, dilatometry, particle size distribution, Carney flow, density). Maintain method compliance with applicable ASTM, AMS, and customer standards, including AMS 7002 for additive powder feedstock.

• Sample Preparation, Heat Treat, and Environmental Testing: Own coupon and specimen preparation (CNC, waterjet, large band saw, EDM), heat treat furnace operations, and environmental testing (corrosion chamber, environmental chamber) per ASTM B117, G85, and applicable customer…