Mechatronics Engineer, Robotic Fastening

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.

Applied Physical Systems is a small, cross-functional engineering team  build technology that spans more than one manufacturing capability, needs hardware and software designed together, and can't be bought off the shelf. We take a solution from proof of concept through prototype to a first production-ready version, then hand it to the teams that run it ineers on the team design, build and commission their own systems on the factory floor.

You will own electromechanical tooling for robotic assembly processes, from concept to production. Typical weeks mixes systems engineering and detailed design, prototype testing with bring-up, work with motors, sensors, feedback controls, data analysis and modeling. You will work closely with the other cross-disciplinary engineers on the team, as well as with the automation engineers and technicians who integrate and operate what you build.

You will also mentor engineers earlier in their careers through design reviews and hands-on work.

• Design end-of-arm tooling (EOAT) and mechanisms for robotic processes, including compliant and force-sensing designs
• Select and integrate motors, drives, sensors and actuators, from sizing through tuning
• Develop motor control and sensing for precision electromechanical tools
• Integrate tooling with industrial robot arms and with cell controls and safety systems
• Build test stands and run experiments that turn sensor data into pass or fail criteria
• Design fixtures, sensor mounts and tooling for robotic cells, and support their commissioning
• Own design release, DFM and DFA with suppliers and with Hadrian's own factory
• Lead installation, commissioning and validation on the factory floor, and mentor engineers earlier in their careers

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, physics, or computer science
• Strong design intuition grounded in first-principles engineering judgment
• Deep mechanical fundamentals, including statics, dynamics, materials, joints and tolerance analysis
• Solid electrical fundamentals, including power distribution, motor drives and sensor wiring
• Working knowledge of feedback control, including torque and position loops tuned on real hardware
• Proven experience integrating motors, drives, sensors and mechanisms into industrial electromechanical systems
• Experience selecting and integrating sensors such as torque transducers, load cells and encoders
• Advanced skills in mechanism design and kinematics for high-uptime automation
• Fluency in a parametric CAD tool such as Solid Works, NX or Onshape
• Daily use of AI tools for analysis, scripting and documentation, with experience…