Machine Learning Engineer - Multimodal

Hadrian; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

401k

Relocation support

Flexible vacation

Equity

Job summary

Hadrian is hiring a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to own the ML lifecycle for vision‑language models that interpret manufacturing drawings and design intent. You’ll build systems that understand multimodal data in a manufacturing context and deploy models to support automated DFMs.

Join a fast‑growing team building autonomous factories for aerospace and defense, with opportunities to shape core AI platform roadmaps and work across high‑impact projects in a frontier industry.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of professional deep learning experience, with at least 2 years on multimodal models leveraging image and text modalities.
• Strong Python and PyTorch fluency: written custom training loops, loss functions, and data loaders from scratch when needed.
• Production deployment ownership: shipped models to production and been responsible for endpoints and model health.

Responsibilities

• Research, develop, and deploy multimodal models that understand content from manufacturing documentation end‑to‑end.
• Work alongside the core-engineering team to build and maintain annotation tooling, implement active learning loops, and engineer synthetic data augmentation strategies.
• Develop evaluation frameworks that quantify system behavior and user impact, extending beyond traditional benchmark metrics.
• Collaborate with the other members of the machine learning team to set the technical and product roadmaps for the AI platform.
• Burn down the long tail, as every percentage point of accuracy maps to man‑years of time savings at our scale.

Skills

Deep learning

Multimodal models

Python

PyTorch

Production deployment

Research & development

Education

MS/PhD in CS or EE

Job description

Hadrian - Manufacturing the Future

Hadrian is building autonomous factories that help aerospace and defense companies manufacture rockets, satellites, jets, and ships up to 10x faster and up to 2x cheaper. By combining advanced software, robotics, and full‑stack manufacturing, we are reinventing how America produces its most critical parts.

The Role

Copilot is our system for automating Design for Manufacturing (DFM) analysis and generating manufacturing processes. We work directly with some of the best operators in the world to identify high‑impact opportunities to automate and augment with software. Our team owns problems end‑to‑end: we design the software, define the manufacturing processes, and ensure they can be executed reliably in our factories. The work spans computational geometry, CAD/CAM integrations, high‑performance systems, and full‑stack web tooling. We execute whatever is required to deliver a working solution and best serve our users. The DFM team within Copilot is building the manufacturing data intelligence layer that serves as the tip of the spear for our automation stack. This platform ingests, interprets, and reasons over the full spectrum of manufacturing data (mechanical drawings, quality documentation, CAD data) and transforms it into structured, actionable information for the factory. As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, you will own the ML lifecycle for the vision‑language models that unify our perception and reasoning capabilities, building systems that understand manufacturing drawings and design intent.

What You’ll Do

• Research, develop, and deploy multimodal models that understand content from manufacturing documentation end‑to‑end, replacing traditional OCR‑to‑NLP cascades with unified architectures
• Work alongside the core‑engineering team to build and maintain annotation tooling, implement active learning loops, and engineer synthetic data augmentation strategies
• Develop evaluation frameworks that quantify system behavior and user impact, extending beyond traditional benchmark metrics
• Collaborate with the other members of the machine learning team to set the technical and product roadmaps for the AI platform
• Burn down the long tail, as every percentage point of accuracy maps to man‑years of time savings at our scale

What We’re Looking For

• 5‑8 years of professional deep learning experience, with at least 2 years working on multimodal models leveraging image and text modalities
• Strong Python and PyTorch fluency: written custom training loops, loss functions, and data loaders from scratch when needed
• Production deployment ownership: shipped models to production and been responsible for endpoints and model health
• MS or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field preferred; equivalent industry experience valued equally

Bonus Points

• You have a passion for manufacturing and believe that the industry needs better software
• Previously worked in aerospace, defense, or manufacturing, and have experience working with manufacturing data
• Published research, achieved state‑of‑the‑art results on relevant benchmarks, or contributed to open‑source frameworks
• Prior experience working in a high‑ownership startup environment

Compensation

For this role, the target salary range is $160,000 - $250,000 (actual range may vary based on experience). This is the lowest to highest salary we reasonably and in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the range may be modified in the future. An employee’s pay position within the salary range will be based on several factors, including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.

Benefits For Full‑time Employees

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans for employees
• 401k
• Relocation support may be provided for certain situations, based on business need
• Flexible vacation policy
• Equity

ITAR Requirements

To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.

Hadrian Is An Equal Opportunity Employer

It is the Company’s policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. The Company does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race inclusive of traits historically associated with race (including, but not limited to, hair texture and protective hairstyles, such as braids, locks and twists), color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, national origin (including, in California, possession of a drivers license), ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, height or weight, medical condition, family care status, military or veteran status, marital status, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, exercise of reproductive rights, any other basis protected by local, state, or federal laws, or any combination of the above characteristics. When necessary, the Company also makes reasonable accommodations for disabled candidates and employees, including for candidates or employees who are disabled by pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions.