Contracts Manager

Hadrian Automation; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Hadrian is seeking a Contracts Manager in Los Angeles to own and optimize Hadrian’s commercial and supply agreements, from intake to signature, across sales and procurement. You will design workflows, ensure compliance with FAR/DFARS, and partner with Supply Chain to align terms with business goals.

Join a fast-growing defense and aerospace focused company building autonomous factories, where your contracting expertise accelerates deal cycles and enables scalable manufacturing.

Qualifications

• Experience drafting and negotiating complex government contracts.
• Knowledge of FAR/DFARS and export controls.
• Experience handling subcontracts and supplier agreements.

Responsibilities

• Own customer and supplier agreements from intake through closeout.
• Draft and revise long‑term supply agreements and subcontracts.
• Interpret FAR/DFARS and flowdown clauses.
• Ensure order terms align with Hadrian’s policies.

Skills

Contract negotiation

Contract management

FAR/DFARS

Supplier agreements

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Microsoft Word

Ariba

Job description

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:

The Contracts Manager owns the formation, negotiation, and administration of Hadrian’s agreements on both sides of the business: the agreements through which Hadrian sells to its customers, and the agreements through which it buys from its supply base. Hadrian’s contracting function is scaling alongside its factories. This seat will help design the workflows, systems, and controls that move agreements from intake to signature across sales and procurement, and is measured on the cycle time it removes.

• Hadrian supplies precision components to the defense and aerospace primes and to commercial space and aviation customers. This seat negotiates and administers those customer agreements, including long‑term supply agreements, master agreements, customer purchase orders, and Hadrian’s quote terms. Many arrive carrying FAR, DFARS, export control, and data rights requirements from the prime contract. The seat confirms Hadrian can perform them and flows them correctly

• Scaling Hadrian’s manufacturing footprint requires the purchase of machine tools, automation cells, raw material, castings and forgings, outside processing, tooling, and software. This seat owns Hadrian’s purchase order terms and the category addenda supporting them, adjudicates supplier markups, and serves as the contracts partner to Supply Chain and Procurement into its supply base.

What You’ll Do

• Own assigned customer and supplier agreements from intake through closeout: pre-award review, negotiation, award, acceptance, performance, modification, renewal, and closeout. Administer Hadrian’s subcontracts under prime contractor terms. Track deliverables, milestones, acceptance, and notice dates against each contract, and escalatory

• Draft, revise, and interpret long‑term supply agreements, master agreements, subcontracts, purchase orders, quote terms, non‑disclosure agreements, statements of work, amendments, and change orders. Produce clear, defensible language on Hadrian’s paper and precise redlines on the counterparty’s.

• Digest the FAR, DFARS, and customer‑specific clauses the primes flow down to Hadrian through customer agreements and purchase orders. Determine which obligations Hadrian must carry, which must flow to its suppliers, and which do not apply. Apply them to the correct vendor agreements order by order and maintain the record of which clauses attached where. Challenge flowdowns that exceed what the prime contract requires or what a commercial supplier should reasonably accept.

• Draft and administer Hadrian’s terms for subcontracts, suppliers, and capital equipment, including acceptance, warranty, title and risk of loss, and milestone payment structures. Verify that the correct Hadrian terms and category addenda attach to every order, screen order‑face fields for the completeness downstream controls depend on, and confirm order terms do not conflict with