Hadrian - Manufacturing the Future
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 Role
This is the modeling half of manufacturing data science at Hadrian. The factory turns geometry into parts: a CAD model, a material, a set of tolerances, a route through stations. This role predicts what that process will do before it runs, and gets better at it with every part that goes through. Our factories generate rich process data on high-mix, low-volume aerospace parts, but most parts are near-unique, so the classic "lots of history per SKU" playbook doesn't apply. The leverage is representation: embed a part by its geometry, material, tolerances, and route, then predict cycle time, cost, tool wear, quality, and triage risk from the parts like it, before the first chip is cut.
The work spans forecasting and prediction (cycle time, tool life, quality and yield, demand, queue and lead time, always with calibrated uncertainty), representation learning (part and operation embeddings so a part with no history inherits the behavior of its neighbors), and geometric modeling (features and models straight off CAD, mesh, and point cloud). Deep models where they earn their keep, classical where it wins. Those predictions feed quoting, scheduling, capacity, and DFM, and you'll own the pipelines that serve them, partnering with ML Platform to deploy and Data Engineering on features.
What You’ll Do
Build and ship production models for cycle time, tool life, quality, and demand, using calibrated uncertainty (quantile, conformal, or Bayesian) rather than point estimates alone.
Model directly off geometry by engineering features and building geometric/graph models that predict cycle time, cost, DFM and tolerance risk, and triage probability.
Build a part and operation embedding layer that represents a part by geometry, material, tolerances, and route, retrieves similar parts, and transfers their behavior to cold-start new ones.
Validate honestly through backtesting that respects time ordering and part-family leakage, and make a defensible case for deep versus classical methods on each problem.
Own models end to end on the platform, including reproducible training, serving, monitoring, and retraining, in partnership with ML Platform and Data Engineering.
Close the loop in production by detecting drift and quality anomalies so predictions improve as new data lands.
Turn predictions into decisions for quoting, scheduling, capacity, and DFM; design experiments and A/B tests to measure real impact, then document and hand off to operations.
What We’re Looking For
Forecasting and prediction on real, messy manufacturing data, with honest uncertainty.
Representation learning and embeddings; similarity and retrieval; transfer/few-shot for sparse data.
Deep learning that ships (PyTorch), and the judgment to know when not to use it.
Strong classical ML and statistics (GBMs, Bayesian/hierarchical, survival, causal).
Validation done right: backtesting, leakage control (time and part-family), calibration.
Python; turns a messy process into features and a model into a decision an operator or a downstream system can consume.
Deploys and monitors models; thinks about pipelines and drift from the start, not after.
Works with limited, high-value data and knows how to borrow strength.
What Will Set You Apart
Geometric deep learning: mesh / point-cloud networks, GNNs, PyTorch Geometric
CAD / B-rep, feature recognition, and turning part geometry into ML features
Retrieval and ANN at scale; embedding stores
Bayesian and hierarchical modeling for small data; physics-informed ML
Survival and reliability modeling (tool life, degradation)
Aerospace or precision-manufacturing background; DFM intuition
Digital twins and simulation; causal inference; sensor / IoT data
Compensation
For this role, the target salary range is $170,000 – $300,000 (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.
Benefits for Full-time Employees
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
Equity
ITAR Requirements
To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a 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. Learn more about the ITAR here.
Use of AI in hiring
Hadrian uses AI-assisted tools in our recruiting and hiring processes to help our team work more efficiently. This may include tools that help organize and analyze recruiting data, as well as an AI-powered notetaker that can record and transcribe interviews and help coordinate feedback. These tools support our team and are not used to make hiring decisions. All candidate evaluations and hiring decisions are performed by humans. If an interview will be recorded, you will be notified in advance and may opt out at any time with no impact on your candidacy. Candidate data processed through these tools is subject to the same protections described in our Privacy Policy.
Hadrian Is An Equal Opportunity Employer
It is the Company’s policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. The Company does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race inclusive of traits historically associated with race (including, but not limited to, hair texture and protective hairstyles, such as braids, locks and twists), color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, national origin (including, in California, possession of a drivers license), ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, height or weight, medical condition, family care status, military or veteran status, marital status, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, exercise of reproductive rights, any other basis protected by local, state, or federal laws, or any combination of the above characteristics. 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.