ML Engineering Manager: Hands-On Leader for Production AI

Hadrian Automation; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 299,000 - 359,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401k

Relocation support

Flexible vacation

Equity

Job summary

Hadrian is building autonomous factories to reindustrialize America and scale its Factory-as-a-Service platform. We seek a technical data intelligence team leader to hire, grow, and mentor ML engineers and software engineers focused on making engineering data legible for automation.

You will guide cross‑functional teams, shape architecture, and stay hands-on as needed to move fast in ML and software development. Join a mission to transform manufacturing in the U.S.

Qualifications

• 2–5+ years of engineering management experience leading ML engineering teams in production.
• Strong judgment on organizational design and headcount allocation.
• Production deployment ownership for ML systems.

Responsibilities

• Own people leadership: hiring, onboarding, mentorship, growth, performance.
• Stay hands-on in design reviews and critical work when needed.
• Set technical direction and allocate headcount with leads.
• Build and maintain evaluation/annotation tooling: gold datasets, metrics, review loops.
• Coordinate ML and software eng work so models ship with the product.
• Ensure engineers are engaged and set up to excel.

Skills

Engineering mgmt

ML engineering

Computer vision

LLM systems

Data engineering

Job description

Hadrian is building autonomous factories to reindustrialize America and scale its Factory-as-a-Service platform. We seek a technical data intelligence team leader to hire, grow, and mentor ML engineers and software engineers focused on making engineering data legible for automation.

You will guide cross‑functional teams, shape architecture, and stay hands-on as needed to move fast in ML and software development. Join a mission to transform manufacturing in the U.S.