Metal Additive Process Engineer – Automation & AI

Hadrian Automation; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 135,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision, and life

401k

Relocation support

Flexible vacation policy

Equity

Job summary

Hadrian is building autonomous factories that accelerate aerospace and defense manufacturing. This role focuses on process development for metal additive manufacturing, advancing in situ monitoring, and automating parameter development to enable faster, more reliable production.

You will work with materials, applications, systems, and welding engineers to translate new materials into validated processes and to push additive capabilities toward scalable, repeatable results.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in an engineering discipline.
• 3+ years of experience developing and optimizing parameters for additive manufacturing, with a strong focus on metal processes.
• Hands on experience with additive manufacturing equipment and software, including build processors or process simulation tools.
• Experience building or improving automated workflows, scripting, or tooling to speed up process or parameter development.
• Ability to work closely with materials engineering to translate new materials into validated, production ready processes.
• Comfort working in an undefined space, building new processes and tools rather than relying on established norms.
• U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident (required for ITAR compliance).

Responsibilities

• Lead process and parameter development for additive processes, focusing on metals. Execute DOEs to define and measure process windows and drive readiness of machine, material, and process.
• Drive adoption of in situ monitoring, SPC, and digital traceability records.
• Build software tools internally or evaluate existing tools to accelerate parameter development and process automation.
• Continuously research, evaluate, and bring in novel tools and technologies that support process development capability.
• Design and build automated workflows to efficiently validate and implement processes.
• Serve as the point of contact for parameter needs tied to unique part geometries or platform challenges.
• Collaborate with materials engineering to roll out, validate, and implement new parameters into production.
• Work cross-functionally with applications engineers, materials engineers, systems engineers, software engineers, and welding engineers.

Skills

DOE execution

In situ monitoring

Parameter development

Python scripting

Automation tooling

Education

Master's degree in engineering

Tools

Build processors

Process simulation tools

Automation software tools

Job description

Hadrian is building autonomous factories that accelerate aerospace and defense manufacturing. This role focuses on process development for metal additive manufacturing, advancing in situ monitoring, and automating parameter development to enable faster, more reliable production.

You will work with materials, applications, systems, and welding engineers to translate new materials into validated processes and to push additive capabilities toward scalable, repeatable results.