Site Reliability Engineer, Robotics

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.

Responsibilities

Own the reliability of robotics systems, from PLCs through ROS2/middleware to Kubernetes; Build interfaces to observability system to ingest telemetry from controls and robotics systems, leveraging solutions such as Prometheus, Telegraf, OpenTelemetry, and Datadog; Write code frameworks and tools to support controls and robotics systems, including diagnostic tools, shared libraries for telemetry data, and automated remediation; Partner with controls, robotics, and platform engineering teams to bake reliability in early, review designs, develop SLOs and SLIs, introduce reliability release gates, and push for telemetry contracts

Requirements

Ownership of a production system where downtime had physical or operational consequences; Systems Thinker focused on understanding relationships among systems to design sustainable solutions; Problem Solver excited by complex puzzles; Comfortable with bare metal Kubernetes, networking, GitOps workflows, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC); Skilled in programming in TypeScript, Python, Golang, or C++; Strong communication - run a war room, write a post-mortem, and explain reliability tradeoffs to a stakeholder; Must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State

Nice to have

Built automated or self-healing remediation at scale; Background in edge/on-prem infrastructure, including Kubernetes at the edge (k3s, k0s, k0smotron), on-prem clusters, time-series at the edge, or air-gapped deployments; Deep understanding of Linux operating system fundamentals such as cgroups, sockets, and system tuning; Deep understanding of shipping and storing telemetry data at scale; Experience with Kafka/MQTT/RabbitMQ; Direct robotics experience with ROS/ROS2, OPC UA, EtherCAT, motion controllers, or fleet management for autonomous systems; Self-directed and able to deliver with high velocity

Benefits

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