Vice President, Test Engineering

Hadrian - Manufacturing the Future

Hadrian is building autonomous factories that help aerospace and defense companies manufacture rockets, satellites, jets, and ships up to 10x faster and up to 2x cheaper. By combining advanced software, robotics, and full-stack manufacturing, we are reinventing how America produces its most critical parts.

We recently raised a $260 million Series C to accelerate this mission. We are excited to be launching a new factory in Mesa, Arizona—a 270,000-square-foot facility that will create 350 new jobs immediately. We are opening a new headquarters to support thousands of future hires, launching Hadrian Maritime to serve naval production, and introducing a Factory-as-a-Service model that delivers complete systems instead of individual parts.

Hadrian works with startups, Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers, and major defense contractors across space, shipbuilding, and aviation to scale production, reduce costs, and accelerate delivery on mission-critical programs. We are backed by leading investors including Lux Capital, Founders Fund, and Andreessen Horowitz. Our fast-growing team is united by a shared mission to reindustrialize American manufacturing for the 21st century and beyond!

As Vice President of Test Engineering, you will define and lead the organization’s end-to-end test engineering strategy across development, qualification, and production. This senior leadership role is responsible for building and scaling test organizations, infrastructure, and processes that support rapid iteration while maintaining high standards of quality, safety, and reliability. You will partner closely with executive leadership and cross-functional teams to ensure testing is a strategic enabler of scalability, operational excellence, and business objectives.

• Define and execute the vision, strategy, and roadmap for test engineering across the full product and manufacturing lifecycle
• Build, lead, and scale multidisciplinary test engineering teams supporting development, integration, qualification, and production
• Establish and continuously improve standardized test methodologies, infrastructure, and best practices
• Oversee the design, deployment, and operation of test systems, facilities, automation, and data pipelines
• Collaborate with engineering, manufacturing, quality, and operations leadership to align test strategy with program and business needs

• Extensive experience in test engineering, integration and test, manufacturing test, or related technical leadership roles
• Demonstrated success leading and scaling test organizations in complex, hardware-focused environments
• Experience with development, qualification, environmental, acceptance, and production testing of complex systems
• Proven ability to build scalable, data-driven test processes and infrastructure
• Strong leadership, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills

• Experience supporting high-growth or rapidly scaling organizations
• Background partnering closely with manufacturing and operations teams
• Demonstrated ability to use test data to drive design, quality, and process improvements
• Experience mentoring senior technical leaders and developing organizational capability

For this role, the target salary range is $300,000 – $350,000 (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.

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans for employees
• 401(k)
• Relocation stipend if you’re moving from outside of the area
• Flexible vacation policy

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