R&D Welding Technician

Hadrian Automation • Torrance, CA

22h • $28 - $33 • Onsite

About The Position

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. The Role Hadrian is ramping new welding capability at FX, and this role is central to getting there. As an R&D Welding Technician, you'll build and qualify the weld processes and hardware, qualification test articles and large structural assemblies, that this capability launch depends on, working hands-on with hand welding, orbital tube welding, and robotic welding cells in a fast-moving R&D environment.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience with hand welding, both laser and arc processes.
• Experience with orbital tube welding.
• Experience operating robotic welding equipment.
• Ability to read engineering drawings, weld symbols, and GD&T.
• Comfort operating in an ambiguous, first-of-a-kind R&D environment rather than a locked production line.

Nice To Haves

• Prior aerospace or defense welding experience.
• AWS D17.1 or NADCAP welding exposure.
• Experience supporting weld procedure or process qualification (WPS/PQR).
• Robotic weld cell programming or teach-pendant experience.
• Prior experience on qualification-article or first-article builds.

Responsibilities

• Fabricate and weld qualification test articles and large structural assemblies in support of a new welding capability ramp.
• Perform hand welding using both laser and arc processes on first-of-a-kind hardware.
• Set up and execute orbital tube welding operations to spec.
• Operate and support robotic welding cells, including setup and troubleshooting.
• Read and build to engineering drawings, weld symbols, and GD&T, and maintain build documentation to support qualification and traceability.

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: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed