Quality Engineer

Telemetry Today LLC; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation support

Flexible vacation policy

Equity

401k

Job summary

Hadrian is building autonomous factories to reindustrialize America. This role focuses on quality engineering to ensure customer requirements are met and integrated into Hadrian’s automation systems.

You will lead audits, develop QMS, and drive continuous improvement across manufacturing processes. With a strong background in AS9100, lean principles, and project management, you will coordinate cross-functional teams to deliver compliant quality solutions and enable scalable production

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a quality engineering role, preferably in aerospace or defense manufacturing.
• Awareness of lean principles and continuous improvement methodology.
• Experience with complex quality specifications, including customer flowdowns.
• In-depth knowledge of AS9100 standards and experience managing customer audits and quality requirements.

Responsibilities

• Onboard new customers by mapping their quality requirements and performing gap assessments.
• Work with the automation team to integrate new customer quality processes into automation systems.
• Act as a project manager for customer and 3rd party audits, ensuring pre-audit tasks are completed and post-audit actions documented.
• Drive data-driven process improvements based on quality specifications and flow downs from customers.
• Develop and refine the Quality Management System to meet industry benchmarks and integrate with automation tools.
• Create quality plans and protocols with quality and manufacturing teams.
• Serve as product owner for quality-related automation tools to meet customer and production needs.

Skills

Quality engineering

Lean principles

AS9100

Customer audits

Project management

Cross-functional teams

Inspection processes

Job description

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:

This position will perform reviews of customer and program quality requirements and will ensure all requirements are identified, understood, and complied to by Hadrian’s current policies, procedures, and systems. If requirements are not currently met, the QE will own the development of new processes/systems that will lead to full support of customer requirements.

What You’ll Do

Onboard new customers by mapping their quality requirements and performing gap assessments to align with current capabilities.

Work closely with our automation team to integrate new customer quality processes into our automation systems

Act as a project manager for customer and 3rd party audits, ensuring all pre-audit tasks are accurately completed and post-audit action items are clearly documented

Drive and implement data-driven process improvements based on quality specifications and flow downs from customers.

Develop and refine our Quality Management System to meet industry benchmarks, while also ensuring seamless integration with our cutting-edge automation tools.

Create quality plans and protocols in collaboration with quality and manufacturing teams.

Act as a product owner for quality-related automation tools, ensuring they meet customer specific requirements, production system needs, and industry standards.

Develop standards for customer-specific quality documentation like process maps, control plans, and standard operating procedures.

What We’re Looking For

Minimum of 5 years of experience in a quality engineering role, preferably in aerospace or defense manufacturing.

Awareness of lean principals and continuous improvement methodology.

Experience working with complex quality specifications, including customer flowdowns

In-depth knowledge of AS9100 standards and experience managing customer audits and quality requirements is preferred.

Strong understanding of manufacturing processes, especially focused in quality related tasks (inspection processes, AS9102 FAIR, source inspections, etc.)

Strong project management skills and experience working with cross-functional teams on

What Will Set You Apart

Grasp of the fundamentals of Design for Manufacturability

Experiencing in successfully coordinating industry and customer audits

Compensation

For this role, the target salary range is $110 - $160k (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

To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen or national, lawful permanent resident, 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 .

Consideration of Criminal History

Hadrian will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of all applicable laws. We do not ask about criminal history on our application, and we do not consider criminal history before making a conditional offer of employment.

Hadrian Is An Equal Opportunity Employer

Hadrian does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, marital status, mental status, physical disability or any other legally protected status. 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.