Systems Engineer, Additive Manufacturing

Hadrian Automation • Los Angeles, CA

2d • $130,000 - $175,000 • Onsite

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 looking for a hands-on systems engineer who can take metal additive manufacturing equipment from standalone machines to fully integrated, automated production systems. This is the hands-on AM technical authority on the team. You will lead the commissioning, qualification, and production readiness of all PBF-LB systems executing FAT, SAT, IQ, and OQ protocols against the Hadrian standard, owning machine-level reliability programs, and serving as technical interface to OEM field engineers. You will also own cell-level P&IDs and support automation integration, ensuring every machine is production-ready by end of year.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in metal additive manufacturing systems engineering, equipment engineering, automation, or factory-scale integration, with deep familiarity in metal LPBF.
• Hands-on knowledge of metal LPBF machine architecture and key subsystems including powder handling, optics, motion, recoater, build plate handling, atmospheres and gas flow, sensing and monitoring, and post-build workflow.
• Experience reading, redlining, and maintaining P&IDs for process utility systems in a manufacturing environment
• Familiarity with reliability engineering fundamentals — PM program design, MTBF/MTTR analysis, and structured problem-solving
• Experience managing OEM relationships and coordinating commissioning across multiple machine platforms
• Experience deploying automation in production manufacturing environments, including safety, interlocks, commissioning, and sustaining engineering.
• Strong problem-solving using structured methods (8D, 5 Whys, fishbone) and proven ability to drive corrective and preventive actions to closure.
• Willing to travel up to 20%, including international supplier visits.
• U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident (required for ITAR compliance).

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or related field
• Master’s degree is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Execute the end-to-end integration of metal AM machines, peripherals, and cell infrastructure into OPUS, Lead FAT and SAT for all incoming PBF-LB systems against Hadrian acceptance criteria — coordinating OEM field engineers, documenting results, and driving resolution of open items to production release.
• Define system requirements, interface control documents (ICDs), integration kits, and machine acceptance criteria that scale across multiple OEMs, configurations, and sites.
• Build and own factory acceptance test (FAT) and site acceptance test (SAT) playbooks, commissioning checklists, and validation plans. Partner with Quality and Process teams to ensure integrated systems support qualification and production release.
• Experience reliability engineering discipline for AM equipment (PM strategy, spares, calibration, MTBF and MTTR tracking, failure mode mitigation). Ability to structured root cause and corrective action with OEMs and internal teams.
• Lead efforts to implement hardware, firmware, and configuration improvements that increase build envelope utilization, process stability, and throughput (for example gas flow, recoater systems, calibration, and motion subsystems), while maintaining configuration control.
• Own standard work for machine operation and integration points, including equipment control procedures, safety interlocks, change control, and training. Ensure readiness for regulated environments and customer audits.
• Partner tightly with Additive Manufacturing, Materials and Process, Manufacturing Engineering, Software, Quality, Supply Chain, and Operations to industrialize solutions and deliver production commitments.

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