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’re accelerating our mission with the launch of Factory 3 in Mesa, Arizona, a 290,000-square-foot facility creating 350 new jobs. We are expanding rapidly to support thousands of future hires, launching Hadrian Maritime to expand into naval production, and introducing a Factory-as-a-Service model that delivers complete systems instead of individual parts.
Hadrian is backed by leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Lux Capital, Founders Fund, and Andreessen Horowitz, our fast-growing team is united around reindustrializing American manufacturing for the 21st century and beyond.
About the Role
Hadrian is building a new precision manufacturing facility in Cherokee, Alabama. We're looking for an IT Site Lead to own day-to-day IT operations at F4 and serve as the face of IT for the entire site. This is a hands-on role with real ownership: you'll manage endpoints, support facility employees and production staff, maintain local infrastructure, serve as the point person for day-2 vendors, and help visiting employees from other sites resolve issues while they're on-site.
You'll report to the Director of IT and work closely with a central team covering infrastructure, cybersecurity, network, and systems functions across all Hadrian sites.
What You'll Do
Site Operations
Own all on-site IT support for facility employees and production staff
Manage device lifecycle using Hadrian's asset management and MDM tools
Manage your ticket queue in Jira Service Management and drive issues to resolution
Maintain local network and infrastructure health; escalate to central infrastructure teams as needed
Serve as the on-call escalation point for F4 on-site support needs; local team headcount is expected to grow as the facility scales
Construction Support
Support the IT buildout of the F4 facility in partnership with the Factory Deployment IT Lead and central IT teams
Coordinate with facilities and construction on-site during construction to confirm electrical and low-voltage vendors are placing infrastructure correctly, and provide regular status updates
Receive, stage, and deploy endpoint hardware, peripherals, and AV/conferencing equipment
Onboarding, Offboarding, and Staffing
Own IT onboarding and offboarding for all employees at the site: hardware setup/retrieval, account provisioning/deprovisioning, access grants, and Day 1 readiness
Serve as the on-site point of contact for IT questions and walkthroughs for new hires
Hire, train, and lead a local IT team as the facility scales
Security and Compliance
Enforce Hadrian's security tooling and policies on-site: EDR, MDM, and IAM
Support CMMC Level 2 compliance requirements for CUI handling at the facility
Coordinate with central IT and InfoSec on incidents, vulnerability remediation, and compliance reviews
Vendor and Asset Management
Manage local vendor relationships, hardware maintenance contracts, and ISP coordination
Maintain accurate asset inventory for all on-site IT equipment
Manage shipping and receiving of IT and infrastructure materials (switches, WAPs, and similar equipment)
What We're Looking For
High degree of independence and accountability - this role works without a local IT manager to lean on, and needs to be self-reliant, self-driven, and proactive rather than reactive
High degree of ownership - drives issues to resolution without waiting to be asked
Strong networking fundamentals: LAN/WAN, VLANs, firewall administration, Wi-Fi
Endpoint management experience with Intune, Mosyle, or FleetDM
Familiarity with Okta for identity and access management
Experience owning employee IT onboarding end to end
Comfortable operating as a remote extension of a distributed team
Manufacturing or industrial environment experience strongly preferred
CMMC, ITAR, and CUI handling experience a plus
Benefits for Full-time Employees
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
ITAR Requirements
To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you 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 the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.
Use of AI in hiring
Hadrian uses AI-assisted tools in our recruiting and hiring processes to help our team work more efficiently. This may include tools that help organize and analyze recruiting data, as well as an AI-powered notetaker that can record and transcribe interviews and help coordinate feedback. These tools support our team and are not used to make hiring decisions. All candidate evaluations and hiring decisions are performed by humans. If an interview will be recorded, you will be notified in advance and may opt out at any time with no impact on your candidacy. Candidate data processed through these tools is subject to the same protections described in our Privacy Policy.
Hadrian Is An Equal Opportunity Employer
It is the Company’s policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. The Company does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race inclusive of traits historically associated with race (including, but not limited to, hair texture and protective hairstyles, such as braids, locks and twists), color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, national origin (including, in California, possession of a drivers license), ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, height or weight, medical condition, family care status, military or veteran status, marital status, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, exercise of reproductive rights, any other basis protected by local, state, or federal laws, or any combination of the above characteristics. When necessary, the Company also makes reasonable accommodations for disabled candidates and employees, including for candidates or employees who are disabled by pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions.