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 building and expanding factories and offices across the country. We're looking for a Technical Field Engineer to be the hands-on lead who gets a new site ready for people to work. You'll stage and install infrastructure hardware, kit out offices with workstations and conference rooms, configure AV systems and Windows and Linux devices, and manage low-voltage and electrical vendors on site, spotting mistakes and directing corrections before we accept the work.
You'll work as a pair with our IT Infrastructure Project Manager, Site Buildouts. The PM owns requirements, design, budget, vendor contracts, and the overall schedule. You own execution on the ground: getting hardware installed, managing the trades day to day on an active construction site, and proving that what was designed actually works. You're the PM's eyes and hands on site, and what you learn in the field shapes the standards for the next build.
You'll also work closely with our infrastructure and network engineers. They configure the network and server equipment; you rack, power, cable, and patch it, give them hands on site during turn-up, and know enough networking to help find and fix problems fast. You'll also work alongside Factory Development as machinery goes in, and with the central IT and helpdesk teams who will run the site after handoff.
We expect you to automate what you can. You'll write scripts to make device setup repeatable, and use AI tools every day to work faster and smarter.
This is a full-time, hands-on, travel-heavy role based at our Torrance, CA HQ or our Mesa, AZ factory. It reports to David Chen, Director of IT.
What You'll Do
Deployment Planning & Staging
- Turn an approved design and bill of materials into a hands-on deployment plan: install sequence, staging, and cutover steps
- Receive, inventory, and stage hardware; image and prepare workstations and devices before they go to site
- Manage shipping and receiving of IT materials across sites and keep asset inventory accurate
Installation & Office Kit-Out
- Rack, mount, and power network and server equipment in MDFs and IDFs, including UPSs and PDUs, and support infrastructure and network engineers on site as they configure and bring it online
- Patch and connect network, server, endpoint, and AV hardware over copper and fiber, following port maps and labeling standards
- Kit out offices: install workstations, monitors, docks, printers, and peripherals so people can sit down and work on Day 1
- Configure and deploy Windows and Linux devices, including workstations, shop-floor PCs, and kiosks, using Hadrian's MDM and provisioning tools
- Install, configure, and test conference room and AV systems (Teams Rooms, Logitech, Crestron, Q-SYS, or similar)
- Work with integrators and Security to install and connect cameras, access control, and other security…