Welding Tooling Engineer: Robotic Fixtures for Aerospace

Hadrian Automation; Torrance (CA); On-site; USD 115,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision, and life保险

401k

Relocation support

Flexible vacation policy

Equity

Job summary

Hadrian is building autonomous factories to advance American manufacturing. We’re seeking a Tooling Engineer to design fixtures and tooling for welding aerospace, defense, and naval parts at our Los Angeles weld development facility.

You will take tools from concept to fabrication, validate with FEA, and collaborate with welding engineers, welders, and the automation team to ensure robust, safe tooling for manual and robotic welding cells.

Qualifications

• 4+ years designing tooling in a manufacturing environment.
• Experience designing weld fixtures or tooling, or a combined background in welding and tooling design.
• Track record of taking tools from CAD into production and supporting them through prove-out.

Responsibilities

• Design weld fixtures and tooling, including locating and clamping fixtures, positioner tooling, and purge, backing, and chill tooling, from concept through detailed drawings.
• Validate tooling designs with FEA and hand calculations for load, stiffness, and thermal effects during welding.
• Manage tool fabrication with internal shops and outside vendors, then prove out, verify, and release each tool to production.
• Work with welding engineers and welders on the floor to control distortion, improve fit-up, and make tools easy and safe to use.
• Design and adapt tooling for robotic welding cells and positioners to support our move toward weld automation.

Skills

Tooling design

CAD (SolidWorks/NX/CATIA)

GD&T

FEA

Welding tooling

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical/ Manufacturing or Welding Engineering

Tools

SolidWorks

NX

CATIA

Job description

Hadrian is building autonomous factories to advance American manufacturing. We’re seeking a Tooling Engineer to design fixtures and tooling for welding aerospace, defense, and naval parts at our Los Angeles weld development facility.

You will take tools from concept to fabrication, validate with FEA, and collaborate with welding engineers, welders, and the automation team to ensure robust, safe tooling for manual and robotic welding cells.