Hadrian Automation
Tooling Engineer, Forging, Special Projects
Los Angeles, CA · Full-time
Work authorization requiredDetected 13 days ago
Full-Stack DevelopmentSalesSupply ChainSolidWorksCATIAANSYSFEAStructural AnalysisRoboticsCollaborationPublic SpeakingOSHA
About the role
- Interface with technicians to validate, install, and optimize forge tooling usage
- Conduct FEA, flow simulations, and die stress analyses to validate designs
- Document technical specifications, usage guides, and safety procedures
Responsibilities
- 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.
- This team is responsible for scoping, design, cost, schedule, and technology analysis, as well as proposals for major programs and manufacturing transformations across all manufacturing methods and domains.
- Design structural and mechanical forge tooling for ferrous and non-ferrous aerospace components and assemblies for the complete suite of forging processes, focusing on mechanical, hydraulic, screw, and horizontal hot forming presses.
- Collaborate with engineers and vendors to source/build, and deploy forge tooling systems.
- Drive testing, validation, and iteration of forge tooling solutions
- Support automated forge tooling integration in collaboration with controls engineers, for the exchange of perishable tooling and changeover.
- Use hand calculations and analytical techniques to guide design
- Relocation support may be provided for certain situations, based on business need.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Aerospace, Physics, or a related STEM field.
- 5+ years in a forging production system environment with emphasis on rate production optimization, tool life improvement, and defect prevention.
- Strong understanding of the various forge manufacturing processes and first principles of bulk deformation for ferrous and non-ferrous products, and how forge tooling supports quality and production efficiency.
- Experience in designing forge tooling systems for complex and high production parts and their integration with larger assemblies and downstream operations, such as machining or welding.
- Ability to contribute to both prototyping and continuous improvement efforts.
- Knowledge of tool steel selection, fabrication, heat treatment, and assembly techniques suitable for high-load and high-temperature environments.
- Knowledge of material behavior for hot bulk forming processes, such as upsetting and extrusion of ferrous and non-ferrous metals.
- 5+ years in a high production forging environment with emphasis on rate production optimization, tool life improvement, and defect prevention.
- Industry experience with critical operations such as designing for assembly, OSHA requirements, and essential considerations of lifting, rotating, and handling of hot tooling assemblies.
- Industry experience with tool steels for hot working, heat treatment, and coatings, as well as tool performance under high heats and loads with an understanding of thermal cycling and efficiency of changeover.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans for employees
- Flexible vacation policy
- 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.
Company info
- 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.
- The factories-as-a-service team analyzes our current customers' production and supply chain challenges, builds data-driven presentations, designs and scopes factories of the future, and assists the Federal and Strategic sales team in forming long-term partnerships with the DOD, Primes, and other manufacturers.
- With several major programs in flight, we are hiring rapidly for this team that will effectively analyze, design, scope, plan, and handover (or join) execution of large-scale manufacturing efforts.
Visa & Work Authorization
- citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U
Apply directly at Hadrian Automation →Create a free account for alerts like thisView Hadrian Automation immigration profile
This listing is sourced directly from Hadrian Automation's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.