Machine Controls & Data Integration System Engineer, Additive Manufacturing

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.

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• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Controls Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, Mechatronics, or related field.

• 5+ years connecting production manufacturing equipment to higher-level software systems — MES, SCADA, historian, or equipment and data platforms — with direct hands-on ownership of the integration rather than oversight of an integrator.

• Hands-on fluency with industrial machine communication: OPC-UA and MQTT, plus at least one PLC platform at the tag and program level. Siemens S7 and TIA Portal strongly preferred; PROFINET, EtherNet/IP, or Modbus equivalents considered. Working familiarity with MTConnect and REST APIs.

• Demonstrated ability to integrate proprietary or undocumented OEM interfaces — working out log formats, file drops, and vendor data access where no standard protocol is available.

• Strong database engineering: relational schema design and SQL fluency, plus practical experience with time-series or historian storage for high-rate machine data. Schema migration and versioning experience required.

• Experience designing and operating data pipelines in production — message transport, stream or batch processing, and monitoring of the pipeline itself.

• Working proficiency in Python or equivalent for integration, parsing, and data tooling, with version control and code review discipline.

• Experience implementing or validating safety interlock systems in a production manufacturing environment.

• Demonstrated ability to define technical interface and data requirements, flow them down to equipment vendors and internal engineering teams, verify delivered systems against them, and keep change-controlled interface documentation current as those systems evolve.

• Ability to work on site full time in Torrance, California, and to travel to Hadrian deployment sites and OEM facilities — up to 25% [CONFIRM].

• Must be a U.S. person for ITAR purposes — a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or otherwise eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
  

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• Experience with metal additive manufacturing equipment — LPBF controller architecture, laser and scanner control, or in-process monitoring.

• Experience integrating equipment into MES or factory data platforms in aerospace or defense production.

• Experience with AM process data: in-situ monitoring, melt pool sensing, layer imaging, or scanner and galvanometer telemetry.

• Experience with OT network architecture and security in a regulated or defense manufacturing environment, including NIST SP 800-171 or CMMC.

• Exposure to polymer AM platforms alongside metal.

• Familiarity with aerospace and defense AM qualification data requirements — AMS7032, US Navy, or NIAR/NCAMP.

• Experience supporting installation and operational qualification from a controls and data integrity perspective.

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