Engineering Manager, Robotics

Hadrian Automation • Los Angeles, CA

12d • $213,000 - $255,000

About The Position

The Autonomous Factory Systems team builds the software that gives Hadrian's factories the ability to sense, decide, and act autonomously. This includes the core robotics stack — perception, behaviors, planning, collision avoidance, and high-level control — alongside orchestration between robots and manufacturing machines and the hardware abstraction layer that connects our software to the machines on the floor.
You will build and manage a team of engineers focused on the robotics side of this stack. This is a people-first management role: your focus is on hiring, growing, and supporting a strong team, while staying close enough to the technical work to help guide direction and staffing decisions.

Requirements

• 2–5+ years of engineering management experience leading robotics, autonomy, or other complex technical teams in production.
• A genuine passion for people management — you care about your engineers' growth and happiness as much as you care about what the team ships.
• A track record of hiring and building strong technical teams, including for hard-to-fill or specialized roles.
• Technical fluency in robotics concepts (perception, planning, behaviors, control, collision avoidance) to have informed conversations about tradeoffs, evaluate technical leads' proposals, and contribute a useful point of view on direction and prioritization — without needing to be the architect yourself.
• Strong judgment on organizational design: how to structure a team, allocate headcount across projects, and balance depth vs. breadth as the stack grows.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional partnership skills — you can align engineers, technical leads, hardware/controls partners, and leadership.
• A track record of running a healthy team: clear expectations, direct feedback, and a strong sense of ownership among your engineers.
• Comfortable working in a fast-moving environment with high stakes, physical systems, and short iteration cycles.
• M.S. in Computer Science, Robotics, or a related field.

Nice To Haves

• A track record of scaling a team through a period of fast headcount growth, including building out interview loops and onboarding from scratch.
• Experience mentoring engineers to grow into broader technical leadership roles.
• Experience managing engineers across multiple robotics disciplines (e.g., perception and planning)

Responsibilities

• Own the people leadership of your engineers: hiring, onboarding, mentorship, career growth, and performance.
• Build a hiring engine for robotics talent — define the bar, run a strong interview process, and help recruit a top-tier team across perception, planning, behaviors, and control.
• Ensure engineers are engaged, growing, and set up to do their best work; regularly assess team health and address issues before they become problems.
• Have real input into technical direction and where we invest headcount, in close partnership with the engineers and technical leads who drive architecture and design.
• Partner with Hardware, Controls, Product, and Operations to translate business priorities into a sequenced roadmap, and make sure the team is resourced and organized to deliver it.
• Continuously improve the team's engineering practices and developer lifecycle: planning, design review, code review, testing, simulation, deployment, on-call, and incident response.

Benefits

• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager