Infrastructure Engineer

About the role

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

In this role you'll define the technical direction for the infrastructure platform powering automated manufacturing across multiple factory sites. You'll shape the architecture spanning cloud, edge, and factory-floor systems, setting the standards, patterns, and engineering culture that the entire organization builds on. You'll move fluidly between strategy and implementation: one day driving a multi-cluster Kubernetes architecture decision, the next pairing on a Terraform module that makes it real. This role demands someone who has simplified complex systems at org scale, built platforms that engineers love to use, and grown the people around them. Not just shipped impressive infrastructure, but made everyone else's infrastructure better too.

What You’ll Do

- Design and implement cloud infrastructure on AWS using Terraform/OpenTofu

- Build and manage Kubernetes clusters (EKS in cloud, K0s/K3s at the edge)

- Build CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows with GitHub Actions and ArgoCD

- Develop reusable infrastructure patterns: Terraform modules, Helm charts, CUE schemas

- Architect networking between sites, edge devices, and cloud

- Implement monitoring and observability with Prometheus/Grafana and Datadog

- Support edge computing and IoT device deployments on factory floors

- Drive build-vs-buy decisions and technology evaluations

- Establish engineering standards and best practices

- Represent infrastructure in cross-functional architecture reviews

- Make architecture decisions under ambiguity and document them as ADRs

- Identify systemic operational gaps and drive automation that eliminates recurring toil

- Participate in on-call rotation and incident response