Hadrian
Systems Engineer, Additive Manufacturing
Los Angeles, CA · Full-time
Work authorization required$150k-$220kDetected 50 days ago
Full-Stack DevelopmentSupply ChainSystems EngineeringRoboticsMechanical DesignProblem Solving
About the role
- 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.
- This is the hands-on AM technical authority on the team.
Responsibilities
- Systems Integration and OPUS Enablement: 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.
- Integration Architecture and Standards: Define system requirements, interface control documents (ICDs), integration kits, and machine acceptance criteria that scale across multiple OEMs, configurations, and sites.
- Commissioning, FAT/SAT, and Qualification Support: 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.
- Machine Modification and Performance Upgrades: 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.
- Manufacturing Controls and Documentation: 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.
- Cross-Functional Execution: Partner tightly with Additive Manufacturing, Materials and Process, Manufacturing Engineering, Software, Quality, Supply Chain, and Operations to industrialize solutions and deliver production commitments.
- 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.
- Partner tightly with Additive Manufacturing, Materials and Process, Manufacturing Engineering, Software, Quality, Supply Chain, and Operations to industrialize solutions and deliver production commitments.
Requirements
- 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.
Nice to have
- 5+ years of experience in metal additive manufacturing systems engineering, equipment engineering, automation, or factory-scale integration, with deep familiarity in metal LPBF.
- Experience deploying automation in production manufacturing environments, including safety, interlocks, commissioning, and sustaining engineering.
- Willing to travel up to 20%, including international supplier visits.
- U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident (required for ITAR compliance).
- We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the range may be modified in the future.
- ITAR Requirements
- Learn more about the ITAR here.
Skills
- Bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or related field Master's degree is a plus.
- Experience reading, redlining, and maintaining P&IDs for process utility systems in a manufacturing environment
- Experience managing OEM relationships and coordinating commissioning across multiple machine platforms
- Willing to travel up to 20%, including international supplier visits.; U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident (required for ITAR compliance).
Compensation
- For this role, the target salary range is $150,000 - $220,000 (actual range may vary based on experience).
- This is the lowest to highest salary we reasonably and in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting.
- We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the range may be modified in the future.
- An employee's pay position within the salary range will be based on several factors, including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.
- Relocation support may be provided for certain situations, based on business need.
- ITAR Requirements
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans for employees
- Flexible vacation policy
- Benefits for Full-time Employees
- When necessary, the Company also makes reasonable accommodations for disabled candidates and employees, including for candidates or employees who are disabled by pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions.
Equal opportunity
- Hadrian Is An Equal Opportunity Employer
Visa & Work Authorization
- Citizen or Permanent Resident (required for ITAR compliance)
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