Head of ML Engineering — Manufacturing AI

hadrian-automation; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 249,000 - 299,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

401k

Relocation support

Flexible vacation

Equity

Job summary

Hadrian is seeking a technically hands-on engineering leader to guide ML teams in production. You will drive hiring, mentorship, and career growth while keeping close ties to the technical work to accelerate delivery.

You will set architectural direction, oversee annotation tooling and data augmentation, and ensure a high-performing, engaged team committed to manufacturing innovation and rapid impact.

Qualifications

• 2–5+ years of engineering management leadership for ML teams in production.

Responsibilities

• Own the people leadership of your engineers: hiring, onboarding, mentorship, career growth, and performance.
• Stay technically hands-on as a player-coach: participate in design reviews and contribute directly to the work when needed.
• Set technical direction and headcount investments with engineers and leads.
• Build and maintain annotation tooling, implement active learning loops, and engineer synthetic data augmentation strategies.
• Ensure engineers are engaged, growing, and set up to do their best work.

Skills

Engineering management

Machine learning

Computer vision

Multimodal models

Data engineering

Job description

Hadrian is seeking a technically hands-on engineering leader to guide ML teams in production. You will drive hiring, mentorship, and career growth while keeping close ties to the technical work to accelerate delivery.

You will set architectural direction, oversee annotation tooling and data augmentation, and ensure a high-performing, engaged team committed to manufacturing innovation and rapid impact.