# Director of Engineering, Forward Deployed Engineering 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: 2026-10-09
- Apply by: 2026-11-23
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hadrian-automation/9e76c3d0-b5a6-49e8-91b5-73967708628d?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/hadrian-director-forward-deployed-engineering/

## About the role

As Director, you lead the Forward Deployed team on one or more programs and own its technical outcomes. You’ll get to run the technical side of a program larger than most startups ever get, working directly with the government, customer’s, and Hadrian’s leadership. The team is early and scope is rapidly growing with Hadrian. Directors will help scale the Forward Deployed team itself and be the tip of the spear on multi-billion-dollar programs: Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Highly commercial technical leaders with excellent product judgement
- You have demonstrated history lead engineering and product teams and scaling a product from zero to one
- You are strong with external and internal executives. You have owned senior customer relationships and made commitments on behalf of a company that you then had to deliver on
- You have product taste. You know what’s worth building and what good looks like for the user, and you’ve shipped end to end enough times to back that up
- You are hands-on technical You are just as comfortable supporting your team with technical. You are just as comfortable supporting your team with architecture and review as you are taking your own idea from design to delivery
- You are AI-native, and relentless about it. You use AI to compress everything from discovery to execution, you can show us concretely how it already makes you multiples faster, and you’ve rebuilt how your whole team works around it

Tags: Engineering, Product, Design

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