R&D Welding Technician

🏢 Hadrian Automation · 📍 Los Angeles, CA · 💼 onsite · ⏰ FullTime

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Position Summary & Responsibilities

Hadrian - Manufacturing the Future

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.

What You'll Do

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

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Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights

Key Role Focus:

Evaluating hardware-software integration, advanced manufacturing automation logic, and first-principles physics and engineering problem-solving.

📋 Preparation Priorities (Key Areas to Clarify):

1. Relying on tribal knowledge or 'how it's always been done' instead of physics and data
2. Separating software architecture from physical execution constraints
3. Being risk-averse in experimental prototyping environments

✨ Recommended Role Alignment Hook:

I treat manufacturing as a software problem, scaling physical automation through rigorous first-principles engineering.

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