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Director, Supplier Quality & Development

Hadrian · Los Angeles, CA · On-site

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About Hadrian

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.

About the role

Hadrian is looking for a Director, Supplier Quality and Development to build and lead the function that ensures our growing external supply base meets the same quality and delivery bar as our own factories. You'll build the quality management system and compliance framework for outside manufacturing, own supplier quality performance end to end, and grow a team to support Hadrian's rapidly expanding supply chain. Build the quality management system and compliance framework (AS9100/maritime) for external supply Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Supplier quality and/or development experience in aerospace, naval, marine, or directly transferable defense hard-goods manufacturing
  • Strong FAI, CAPA, and PFMEA discipline
  • Proven people leadership experience, with the ability to build and grow a team
  • Willingness to travel regularly to foundries and machine shops
  • Experience standing up supplier quality processes and systems from scratch at a startup or high-growth company, ideally in mechanical commodities
More about this role

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.

Hadrian is looking for a Director, Supplier Quality and Development to build and lead the...

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