Process Qualification Engineer, Additive Manufacturing Hardware

Front Door Defense; Los Angeles, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 108,000 - 132,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision, and life保险

401k

Relocation support

Flexible vacation

Equity

Job summary

Hadrian is building autonomous factories to reindustrialize America and is seeking a Process Qualification Engineer for Additive Manufacturing in Los Angeles. You will own quality and qualification, leading first article inspections and qualification packages for additive hardware, while defining control plans for powders, builds, and post-processing steps.

You will drive root cause analysis, act as the primary NDE owner, and collaborate with quality and supply chain to ensure robust inspection

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 5+ years of experience in a quality, qualification, or NDE focused role within manufacturing, with additive manufacturing experience strongly preferred.
• Hands on experience developing and executing first article inspection plans and qualification packages.
• Working knowledge of NDE methods such as CT, X-ray, penetrant, and ultrasonic inspection, including how to validate and apply them to additive hardware.
• Experience writing process control documentation and working cross functionally.

Responsibilities

• Own and execute all first article inspection plans for additive hardware, along with qualification validation and implementation.
• Define control plans and ensure specification compliance across powder, build, and post processing steps.
• Support root cause analysis and corrective action for additive builds and hardware issues as they arise.
• Act as the primary NDE owner for all additive processes, leading development of new inspection methods and techniques as our capabilities grow.
• Partner with quality and NDE to define inspection plans, acceptance criteria, and sampling strategies, driving measurement system analysis and validation of inspection methods as needed.
• Oversee quality for the team, including writing process control documents, and work with company quality executives to help integrate additive manufacturing into a broader, successful quality system.
• Serve as the team's point of contact for quality and supply chain, including working with external vendors on special process control, qualification, and continuous improvement across powder supply, post processing, coatings, and inspection services.

Skills

Quality assurance

NDE knowledge

First article inspection

Documentation writing

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Materials/Mechanical/Manufacturing/Industrial Engineering

Tools

CT/NDE methods

X-ray inspection

Ultrasonic testing

Statistical analysis (MSA)

Job description

Process Qualification Engineer, Additive Manufacturing

Lead qualification and inspection program for additive manufacturing processes and hardware

Location: Los Angeles, California

Compensation: $135,000 - 200,000 USD / year

About The Role

Hadrian - Manufacturing the Future

Hadrian is building autonomous factories to reindustrialize America. By combining AI, advanced software, robotics, and full-stack manufacturing, we help aerospace and defense companies build rockets, satellites, aircraft, ships, and other mission-critical systems up to 10x faster and at significantly lower cost.

Following our $1.37B Series D at a $7.87B valuation, Hadrian is rapidly expanding our manufacturing footprint, launching new capabilities across welding, casting, forging, electronics, additive manufacturing, and more, while scaling our Factory-as-a-Service platform to transform how critical products are built.

Backed by leading investors including JPMorgan Chase, Valor Equity Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund, 137 Ventures, Lux Capital, T. Rowe Price, and Morgan Stanley, we're building the future of American manufacturing—and looking for exceptional people to help make it happen.

If you're ready to take on the most challenging and rewarding work of your career while helping create American manufacturing jobs for generations to come, you're exactly who we're looking for.

The Role

Within Additive Manufacturing, you'll be the owner for quality and qualification. Qualification has long been one of the biggest hurdles standing in the way of additive being used at scale, and this role is full of opportunities to rethink how it's done and change the way qualification works for this industry going forward. This role is for someone ready to take on highly technical, independent work and be the backbone of how we prove out our processes and hardware.

• Own and execute all first article inspection plans for additive hardware, along with qualification validation and implementation.
• Define control plans and ensure specification compliance across powder, build, and post processing steps.
• Support root cause analysis and corrective action for additive builds and hardware issues as they arise.
• Act as the primary NDE owner for all additive processes, leading development of new inspection methods and techniques as our capabilities grow.
• Partner with quality and NDE to define inspection plans, acceptance criteria, and sampling strategies, driving measurement system analysis and validation of inspection methods as needed.
• Oversee quality for the team, including writing process control documents, and work with company quality executives to help integrate additive manufacturing into a broader, successful quality system.
• Serve as the team's point of contact for quality and supply chain, including working with external vendors on special process control, qualification, and continuous improvement across powder supply, post processing, coatings, and inspection services.

What We’re Looking For

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 5+ years of experience in a quality, qualification, or NDE focused role within manufacturing, with additive manufacturing experience strongly preferred.
• Hands on experience developing and executing first article inspection plans and qualification packages.
• Working knowledge of NDE methods such as CT, X-ray, penetrant, and ultrasonic inspection, including how to validate and apply them to additive hardware.
• Experience writing process control documentation and working cross functionally.

What Will Set You Apart

• Background managing supplier or vendor quality relationships, particularly for powder, post processing, or coatings.
• Familiarity with statistical sampling and measurement system analysis methodology.
• Experience supporting production scale up or new process introduction in a high rate manufacturing environment.
• Background in aerospace, aviation, defense, energy, or similar industries with high specification requirements.
• Familiarity with industry specialized material standards, certification requirements, or quality systems such as NADCAP, AMS7000 series, AS9100, and relevant ASTM/AMS additive manufacturing specifications.
• Familiarity with fracture control classification of components and associated qualification requirements.

Compensation:

For this role, the target salary range is $135,000 - $200,000 (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.

Use of AI in Hiring

Hadrian uses AI-assisted tools in our recruiting and hiring processes to help our team work more efficiently. This may include tools that help organize and analyze recruiting data, as well as an AI-powered notetaker that can record and transcribe interviews and help coordinate feedback. These tools support our team and are not used to make hiring decisions. All candidate evaluations and hiring decisions are performed by humans. If an interview will be recorded, you will be notified in advance and may opt out at any time with no impact on your candidacy. Candidate data processed through these tools is subject to the same protections described in our Privacy Policy.

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.