Senior Engineering Manager, Builder Tools

Hadrian Automation • Los Angeles, CA

1d • $250,000 - $320,000

About The Position

Hadrian is building autonomous factories to accelerate manufacturing for aerospace and defense companies. We are expanding rapidly with new facilities and business lines, backed by leading investors, and focused on reindustrializing American manufacturing. The Builder Tools team is critical to our success, owning the tools, workflows, and development practices that enable engineering velocity. This role leads a team focused on engineering productivity, internal tooling, and AI-enabled development, with the mission to make Hadrian's engineers faster and more effective. Reporting to the VP of Engineering, this position partners with infrastructure, security, and product teams to drive improvements across the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

Requirements

• 8-12 years in software engineering, with 3-5+ years in engineering management
• Strong backend or platform engineering background with deep familiarity with modern SDLC systems
• Experience leading and scaling high-performing engineering teams
• Track record of delivering measurable improvements in engineering velocity or system reliability
• Ability to think in systems: understand the end-to-end development lifecycle and identify where to optimize
• Experience with CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions, Buildkite, or similar), observability stacks (Datadog, Prometheus), and cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP, Kubernetes)
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience

Nice To Haves

• Hands-on experience implementing AI-assisted development workflows
• Familiarity with LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.) and AI coding tools (Copilot, Cursor, etc.)
• Experience with CI/CD optimization at scale
• Strong data-driven approach to measuring and improving developer productivity
• Ability to treat internal tooling as a product: clear users, defined impact, feedback loops
• Experience driving adoption of new tools and workflows across engineering organizations

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of engineers focused on engineering productivity and internal developer tools
• Define and execute a roadmap to improve end-to-end SDLC efficiency and reliability (plan, build, test, deploy, observe)
• Drive adoption of AI-assisted development tools across engineering, from code assistants to LLM-powered workflows
• Identify bottlenecks in developer workflows and implement scalable, lasting solutions
• Improve CI/CD systems, testing frameworks, and deployment processes
• Establish metrics to measure developer productivity and system performance
• Partner with infrastructure, security, and product teams to improve delivery pipelines
• Hire, mentor, and develop engineers and tech leads
• Ensure high standards for reliability, scalability, and maintainability across internal tooling

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: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree