Systems Engineer, Systems Test

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 The Autonomous Factory Systems team builds the software that gives Hadrian's factories the ability to sense, decide, and act autonomously. This includes the core robotics stack — perception, behaviors, planning, collision avoidance, and high-level control — alongside orchestration between robots and manufacturing machines and the hardware abstraction layer that connects our software to the machines on the floor. You will lead the Systems Test division for Autonomous Factory Systems — building the team of test and simulation test engineers, owning full test plan coverage across development and release, and directing simulation test environments driven by those test plans. What You’ll Do - Build and lead the Systems Test division — hire and grow a team of test engineers and simulation test engineers, establishing technical standards, tools, and processes for the group - Drive full test plan coverage across all Autonomous Factory Systems programs, from early development through production release, ensuring systems are validated against real-world operating conditions - Direct simulation test development — build out simulation test that model the edge cases and off-nominal conditions identified in systems test plans, translating those test plans into simulation test coverage of manufacturing cell operation - Set technical direction across disciplines — design test approaches spanning hardware sub-components developed in-house and the integrated Autonomous Manufacturing Cells that combine machines, robotics, and orchestration software - Stay deeply technical — focus on test architecture, simulation test methodology, and engineering standards as a hands-on technical leader; this is not a people-management position - Partner cross-functionally with hardware, robotics, and software integration teams to embed testability and simulation test coverage into system design from the start - Define quality gates — establish the criteria and processes that determine when a system is ready to move from development to release What We’re Looking For - B.S. in Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline; formal systems engineering training (e.g. INCOSE CSEP or equivalent coursework in requirements management, V&V, and systems architecture) is a plus - 10+ years of systems engineering or test engineering experience for complex electromechanical or robotic systems, with a track record of technical leadership - Experience building and scaling test strategies for integrated hardware and software systems - Experience directing simulation test environments used to model system behavior, edge cases, and failure modes ahead of or alongside physical testing - Familiarity with robotics, industrial automation, or manufacturing cell environments (machines, robotic arms,…