Manager, Build Engineering - Commodities

Hadrian - 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.

Role Summary Hadrian is looking for a Manager, Build Engineering – Commodities to lead the team that owns how our commodity parts get made across machining, tube and pipe, and sheet metal. You will own new product introduction for these commodities end-to-end, from first article through qualification, ramp, and transition into standard production, and you will be accountable for the build outcomes of every engineer on your team.

Commodity parts feed nearly every product we build, so your team's work shows up across the whole business. Your team owns new product and new process introduction for these parts end-to-end. That means setting how they flow through the factory, defining the processes they need, and working across Supply Chain, Capability Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Tooling, Quality, and Test to bring them to rate.

You will set one standard for how build plans, process definitions, and work instructions are written across all three commodities. Decisions made during NPI set the cost, lead time, and quality of these parts for their life, and the processes your team introduces become capabilities Hadrian uses on the programs that follow.

This is a working manager role, and the team is being built now. You will hire, coach, and level up Build Engineers across three disciplines while commodity cells come online. You will prove out processes and first articles at an existing factory before transferring them into our new factory in Cherokee, Alabama, and you will stay close enough to the floor to make a real-time technical call or step in yourself during a high-priority build.

Key Responsibilities Build and lead a team of Build Engineers across machining, tube and pipe, and sheet metal, and own hiring, staffing, and leveling decisions for the team.

Own commodity-level new product introduction (NPI) outcomes, from requirements definition and subscale development through first article and stabilized production, for every part your team supports.

Make sure your team interprets and defines product requirements from customer specifications, drawings, and contracts before build plans are set.

Set a common standard for product requirements definition, build plans, high-level process definitions, BOM structures, work orders, and Opus work instructions across all three commodities, and for how they are managed in Hadrian's PLM, ERP, and MES systems.

Tie the work of individual Build Engineers into one coherent execution plan, setting sequencing, prioritization, and risk mitigation across commodities and the product programs they serve.

Make sure Capability Engineering…