Manufacturing Engineer, Forging
Hadrian Automation
| Company | Hadrian Automation |
| Category | Engineering |
| Location | Torrance |
| Remote | On-site (inferred) |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Not stated |
| Salary | Not stated by the employer |
| Posted | 1 Oct 2025 |
| Last verified | 30 Jul 2026 |
| Source | Employer career page (ashby) |
Description
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 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.
This specific 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.
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.
The Role
- This is the team that will restore forging to a core American industry
- This role will oversee: CapEx and factory planning, workflow and automation planning, and material handling for Forging as part of the Factories as a Service team.
- The Manufacturing Engineer for Forging will lead CapEx planning activities at a process level, and is responsible to coordinate the Tooling, Process, and Automation teams for development of part level SIPOC.
- You’ll be able to rapidly review product drawings for manufacturability, take input from the tooling and process group(s) to select the right CapEx for manufacturing, process, handling, and inspection processes. Work within our automation team to advise on forging best practices and have a deep working knowledge of production and inspection methods for Forging.
- This role will assist in building new factories for existing products and new programs, as well as contribute to the manufacturing processes of core products where Forging is a designed-in function.
- We are seeking individuals who can analyze machine drawings and specifications at a technical level to determine manufacturing feasibility and efficiencies. You will plan, select, layout, and simulate new process and factory flows and will have ownership of the plant forging layout. We are conducting interviews at all levels.
What You’ll Do
- Analyze customer drawings and current state of production to design, build, and guide automation of Forging DFM, Production, and Inspection Lines.
- Connect Tooling, Process, & Automation groups to determine manufacturing and inspection requirements to build a manufacturing plan. Specify and select appropriate CapEx to satisfy the manufacturing plan.
- Contribute as a key player in Factories as a Service (FaaS) effort to build, edit, and scale forging capability thru maturation.
- Deliver cost/schedule/solutions in partnership with our Supplier, Internal & External Customers, the Federal team, and the Executive Office.
- Own CapEx planning, vendor selection, costing, delivery, and implementation schedules.
What We’re Looking For
- SME with deep expertise in metals forming production, automation, and material handling systems.
- Able to travel ~25% to DOD and prime facilities
- Able to analyze DFM, and d
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