Director, Supplier Quality & Development

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.

Hadrian is looking for a Director, Supplier Quality and Development to build and lead the function that ensures our growing external supply base meets the same quality and delivery bar as our own factories. You'll build the quality management system and compliance framework for outside manufacturing, own supplier quality performance end to end, and grow a team to support Hadrian's rapidly expanding supply chain.

• Lead and grow the supplier quality and development team

• Build the quality management system and compliance framework (AS9100/maritime) for external supply

• Own supplier quality performance end to end, including FAI, CAPA, and PFMEA discipline

• Lead supplier development, working hands-on with foundries and machine shops

• Manage supplier on-time delivery and risk across a growing mechanical commodities supply base

• Supplier quality and/or development experience in aerospace, naval, marine, or directly transferable defense hard-goods manufacturing

• Strong FAI, CAPA, and PFMEA discipline

• Proven people leadership experience, with the ability to build and grow a team

• Willingness to travel regularly to foundries and machine shops

• Experience standing up supplier quality processes and systems from scratch at a startup or high-growth company, ideally in mechanical commodities

• Six Sigma Black Belt or formal Lean certification

• DoD/ITAR program exposure

• Working knowledge of NAVSEA requirements, SUBSAFE, and weld/NDT quality

For this role, the target salary range is 190,000 - 270,000actual range may vary based on experience).

This is the lowest to highest salary we reasonably and in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the range may be modified in the future. An employee's pay position within the salary range will be based on several factors, including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans for employees
  401k

• Relocation support may be provided for certain situations, based on business need.

• Flexible vacation policy

• Equity

To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen or national, lawful permanent resident, protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required…