Manufacturing Engineer, Forging

Multicoin; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Flexible vacation policy

Relocation support

Job summary

Multicoin is looking for a key contributor in their Factories as a Service team, focused on automating manufacturing processes. You will analyze customer production needs to design effective manufacturing plans, ensuring high-quality output. The role requires strong knowledge in metal-forming production and excellent communication skills. This position contributes to core manufacturing products and supports the revitalization of American industries.

With rapid expansion, we seek someone who can connect tooling, process, and automation capabilities to enhance production efficiency. Must be willing to travel and embrace complex challenges in a collaborative setting.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in metal-forming production and automation.
• Experience in establishing new forming/forging capabilities.
• Ability to analyze DFM and design production lines.

Responsibilities

• Oversee CapEx planning and factory workflow.
• Analyze customer drawings for production design.
• Connect tooling and automation groups for manufacturing.

Skills

Metal-forming production

Automation

Material handling systems

Manufacturing feasibility analysis

Communication skills

Education

Expertise in engineering or production systems

Tools

Machine vision techniques

Simulation software

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.

We’re accelerating our mission with the launch of Factory 3 in Mesa, Arizona, a 290,000‑square‑foot facility creating 350 new jobs. We are expanding rapidly to support thousands of future hires, launching Hadrian Maritime to expand into naval production, and introducing a Factory‑as‑a‑Service model that delivers complete systems instead of individual parts.

Hadrian is backed by leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Lux Capital, Founders Fund, and Andreessen Horowitz. Our fast‑growing team is united around reindustrializing American manufacturing for the 21st century and beyond.

The factories‑as‑a‑service team analyzes our current customers’ production and supply chain challenges, builds data‑driven presentations, designs and scopes factories of the future, and assists the Federal and Strategic sales team in forming long‑term partnerships with the DOD, primes, and other manufacturers.

This specific team is responsible for scoping, design, cost, schedule, and technology analysis, as well as proposals for major programs and manufacturing transformations across all manufacturing methods and domains.

With several major programs in flight, we are hiring rapidly for this team that will effectively analyze, design, scope, plan, and handover (or join) execution of large‑scale manufacturing efforts.

The Role

• Restoring forging to a core American industry.
• Overseeing CapEx and factory planning, workflow and automation planning, and material handling for forging as part of the Factories as a Service team.
• Leading CapEx planning activities at a process level and coordinating the Tooling, Process, and Automation teams for development of part‑level SIPOC.
• Rapidly reviewing product drawings for manufacturability, selecting the right CapEx for manufacturing, process, handling, and inspection processes, and advising on forging best practices.
• Assisting in building new factories for existing products and new programs, and contributing to manufacturing processes of core products where forging is a designed‑in function.
• Analyzing machine drawings and specifications at a technical level to determine manufacturing feasibility and efficiencies, planning, selecting, laying out, and simulating new process and factory flows, and owning the plant forging layout.

What You’ll Do

• Analyze customer drawings and current state of production to design, build, and guide automation of forging DFM, production, and inspection lines.
• Connect Tooling, Process, and Automation groups to determine manufacturing and inspection requirements to build a manufacturing plan and specify appropriate CapEx.
• Contribute as a key player in the Factories as a Service effort to build, edit, and scale forging capability through maturation.
• Deliver cost/schedule/solutions in partnership with our suppliers, internal and external customers, the federal team, and the executive office.
• Own CapEx planning, vendor selection, costing, delivery, and implementation schedules.

What We’re Looking For

• SME with deep expertise in metal‑forming production, automation, and material handling systems.
• Able to travel ~25% to DOD and prime facilities.
• Able to analyze DFM and design/plan production and inspection lines for forming/forging production.
• Prior experience standing up new forming/forging capabilities in defense, aerospace, automotive, energy, or other critical infrastructure domains.
• Ability to move quickly, make risk‑adjusted decisions, and own the outcome of your work.
• Self‑directed IC comfortable working within ambiguity and without guardrails.
• Reliance on first‑principles engineering to develop solutions in a structured yet accelerated pace.
• Forward‑thinking, high‑character individual with excellent communication skills and empathy for upward and downward collaboration and reporting.

What Will Set You Apart

• Working knowledge of forging technology and metal processing.
• Mechanical and hydraulic machine design, thermal processing equipment, and part handling systems.
• Thermal and vibration monitoring and dampening methods.
• Machine vision and visual inspection techniques.
• Software programming, simulation, or automation experience is not required but helpful.
• Demonstrated success in designing, planning, and executing metal‑forming production in a forging, mill, or foundry factory.
• Knowledge of factory infrastructure such as utilities, machine foundations, dust & waste collection and removal, rigging & lifting systems.
• Creative process in design & problem solving grounded in continuous improvement methodologies.
• Practice the 5 C’s—Character, Charisma, Candor, Creativity, and Collaboration—in daily work.

Benefits for Full‑time Employees

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans.
• 401(k).
• 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.

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 driver’s 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.