# Director, Forward Deployed Engineering - Manufacturing at Hadrian

- Company: Hadrian
- What the company does: Hadrian is rebuilding America’s industrial strength, rapidly scaling our country’s manufacturing output through advanced software, automation, and human skill. Backed by a16z, Founders Fund and Lux.
- Company website: https://www.hadrian.co
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Los Angeles, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $300K to $415K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-28
- Apply by: 2026-12-12
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hadrian-automation/3dbea2da-8e23-4f0c-baff-9a4cf6268e95?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/hadrian-director-forward-deployed-engineering-manufacturing/

## About the role

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. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Aerospace, Manufacturing, or a related engineering field and 8+ years of manufacturing or manufacturing engineering experience, or 12+ years of that experience without a degree
- 3+ years managing technical teams (direct reports)
- Experience in a customer-facing technical role (e.g., applications, field or sales engineering, program engineering, or consulting), including presenting technical recommendations to customer engineering and program leadership
- Proven ability to lead a technical team in a customer-facing capacity, translating between customer requirements and manufacturing reality
- Demonstrated ability to run structured customer discovery (site visits, process mapping, stakeholder interviews) and turn it into a defined technical solution
- Strong first-principles engineering judgment: able to evaluate and understand complex requirements before proposing or committing to solutions

Tags: Manufacturing

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/hadrian-director-forward-deployed-engineering-manufacturing/