Senior Engineering Manager, Factory Core

Hadrian Automation • Los Angeles, CA

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About The Position

Hadrian is building autonomous factories that help aerospace and defense companies manufacture rockets, satellites, jets, and ships up to 10x faster and up to 2x cheaper. By combining advanced software, robotics, and full-stack manufacturing, we are reinventing how America produces its most critical parts. We’re accelerating our mission with the launch of Factory 3 in Mesa, Arizona, a 290,000-square-foot facility creating 350 new jobs. We are expanding rapidly to support thousands of future hires, launching Hadrian Maritime to expand into naval production, and introducing a Factory-as-a-Service model that delivers complete systems instead of individual parts. Hadrian is backed by leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Lux Capital, Founders Fund, and Andreessen Horowitz, our fast-growing team is united around reindustrializing American manufacturing for the 21st century and beyond.

The Factory Core team owns a part of our FactoryOS we call Flow, which runs the physical factory: the Manufacturing Execution System, Shop Floor experience, Inventory, and Warehouse Management. Every part Hadrian makes, moves, or ships passes through these systems, and operators on the floor depend on them every shift. The Factory Core team is at the center of scaling Hadrian's throughput for existing and new factories.

As an Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of 5-10 engineers across one or two business domains. You are accountable for your team, the product, and the long-term health of the systems they own. You're a player-coach: most of your time is leadership, but you stay close enough to the code, the architecture, and the customer to make good technical and product decisions. You do not need aerospace, defense, or manufacturing experience to excel in this role.

Requirements

• 2-5+ years of engineering management experience leading product engineering teams in production, with a strong full-stack engineering background before that.
• A history of owning business-critical product domains, including technical strategy, prioritization, delivery, and operational responsibility.
• Experience hiring, growing, and retaining strong engineers, and running a healthy team.
• Real product and customer instinct. You understand the product, the user, and the business, and you push your team toward the right outcomes, not just shipped work.
• A clear point of view on the developer lifecycle (planning, design, build, ship, operate) and how to make each phase better.
• Systems thinking: you understand how services, data flows, and team boundaries interact, and use that to prevent bottlenecks and scaling issues before they happen.
• Experience leading or contributing to distributed systems in production, ideally across multiple sites, environments, or regions.
• Technical credibility. You can read, review, and write production code, lead architecture discussions, and earn the trust of senior engineers.
• Strong communication. You can align engineers, product partners, operators, and leadership, drive decisions, and keep people informed.
• Comfortable working in a fast-moving environment with high stakes and short iteration cycles.
• U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

Nice To Haves

• Aerospace, defense, or manufacturing experience.

Responsibilities

• Own one or more business domains end-to-end, including product outcomes, engineering execution, and ongoing operational health.
• Hire, grow, and retain a strong team. Set a clear bar, develop careers, and address performance directly.
• Stay hands-on as a player-coach. Drive architecture and design reviews, ship code on real roadmap work, and jump into production incidents with the team.
• Partner with Product, Design, and Operations to shape the roadmap and turn business priorities into sequenced, shipped work.
• Continuously improve the developer lifecycle your team operates in: planning, design, code review, testing, deployment, on-call, and incident response.
• Travel to factory sites to work directly with operators and factory leadership, and use what you learn to inform the roadmap.

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed