R&D Welding Technician

The role

You will build and qualify weld processes, hardware, qualification test articles, and large structural assemblies. This work involves hand welding, orbital tube welding, and robotic welding cells in an R&D environment.

What you will do

• Fabricate and weld qualification test articles and large structural assemblies.
• Perform hand welding using laser and arc processes on first-of-a-kind hardware.
• Set up and execute orbital tube welding operations to spec.
• Operate and support robotic welding cells, including setup and troubleshooting.
• Read and build to engineering drawings, weld symbols, and GD&T.
• Maintain build documentation to support qualification and traceability.

Required qualifications

• Hands-on experience with hand welding, both laser and arc processes.
• Experience with orbital tube welding.
• Experience operating robotic welding equipment.
• Ability to read engineering drawings, weld symbols, and GD&T.
• Comfort operating in an ambiguous, first-of-a-kind R&D environment.

Nice to have

• Prior aerospace or defense welding experience.
• AWS D17.1 or NADCAP welding exposure.
• Experience supporting weld procedure or process qualification (WPS/PQR).
• Robotic weld cell programming or teach-pendant experience.
• Prior experience on qualification-article or first-article builds.

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.