Director, Forward Deployed Software Engineering

The role

You will lead the Forward Deployed team on programs and own technical outcomes. You will manage technical roadmaps, build and lead engineering teams, and maintain executive relationships with government and defense customers.

What you will do

• Own the technical roadmap and delivery
• Bring program learnings to platform teams to improve the product
• Own the executive relationship on the technical side
• Run technical reviews and manage scope and schedule conversations
• Hire and grow engineers, product managers, and designers
• Stay hands-on by building v0 or reviewing team shipments

Required qualifications

• Highly commercial technical leaders with excellent product judgement
• Demonstrated history leading engineering and product teams and scaling a product from zero to one
• Strong with external and internal executives
• Owned senior customer relationships and made commitments on behalf of a company
• Product taste
• Hands-on technical
• AI-native
• Experience hiring builders into ambiguous roles
• Driven by the mission and the tempo

Nice to have

• Founder or founding-team experience
• Background in aerospace, defense, manufacturing, or anywhere hardware, software, and operations meet
• Forward deployed or solutions leadership at a product company

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans
• 401k
• Relocation support may be provided for certain situations
• Flexible vacation policy
• Equity

Before you apply

• To conform to ITAR, you must be a U.S. citizen or national, lawful permanent resident, protected individual, or eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State

About the company

Hadrian is building autonomous factories to reindustrialize America by combining AI, advanced software, robotics, and full-stack manufacturing. They help aerospace and defense companies build mission-critical systems.