Architectural Engineer, Structural Systems

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.

In this role, you’ll translate the structural needs of our production equipment into real, permitted, built facilities. A large part of your work will be designing the foundations – concrete slab, equipment foundations, piles, and steel support structures – that carry our heavy and precision machinery. You’ll work directly with equipment OEMs to intake loads, anchoring, vibration, and tolerance requirements and turn them into engineered foundation drawings.

You’ll be Hadrian’s primary point of contact with our external Architect and General Contractor partners and shape the early structural and foundation requirements driven by equipment selection and operational flow, inform site selection, and lead structural schematic design through to construction.

This is a role for someone who makes forward progress through ambiguity, takes smart calculated risks, and treats schedule and budget as real design constraints. Ultimately, you’ll partner closely with engineering to intake requirements and turn them into a built reality on schedule and on budget.

Structural & Foundation Requirements Partnership: Intake structural requirements from engineering, geotechnical surveys, and OEM equipment vendors. Lead the development of the equipment foundations structural scope from initial concept evaluations through completion of construction drawings for permitting and on-site execution.

Equipment Foundation Design & OEM Coordination: Design equipment foundations, concrete slabs, and steel support pedestals for heavy and precision manufacturing equipment. Work directly with equipment OEMs to capture load, anchoring, vibration, and tolerance requirements. Engineer anchor bolt and embed details that connect equipment and steel framing to concrete.

Schedule & Problem Solving: Strategically identify critical path items relating to structural design, procurement, and construction phases including long-lead concrete, rebar, and structural steel. Manage the critical path and any blockers. Apply first-principles thinking to recover lost time and protect delivery milestones.

Design

Collaboration:

Collaborate closely with manufacturing, construction, facilities, geotechnical, and cross-disciplinary teams to address end-user requirements, resolve integration challenges, and coordinate structural systems against architectural, mechanical, and electrical designs so everything stays compatible with the design intent.

• Bachelor’s degree in Architectural Engineering, Civil or Structural Engineering, or a related field.

• Professional licensure (PE preferred), or…