Forward Deployed Engineer

Join Hadrian, a cutting-edge aerospace and defense startup, as a Forward Deployed Engineer. In this role, you will embed on enterprise customer programs and drive the full loop from discovery to deployment. You will communicate across the full stakeholder range, partner with teams building Opus, and build net-new software to make programs succeed. This is a fast-paced, high-impact role that requires strong product instincts, experience working directly with customers, and a passion for AI.

• Concevoir, configurer et intégrer des logiciels et des plateformes robotiques pour répondre aux besoins spécifiques des programmes clients.
• Travailler sur un programme de bout en bout, de la première conversation ambiguë à la découverte, à la construction, au déploiement et à l'itération.
• Construire des logiciels entièrement nouveaux pour garantir le succès des programmes, y compris des applications autonomes, des flux de travail personnalisés et des intégrations.
• You'll periodically travel to spend time on-site with customers and operators — enough to understand their reality firsthand — but this is not a travel-heavy or long-deployment role
• Comfortable across the whole stack — everything from UI/UX work to designing backend systems, reaching for whatever technology best fits the problem rather than defaulting to what you know
• Driven by the mission and the tempo. You get energized by the impact you're having on the programs you work on, and you care deeply about delivering at the pace our customers need
• Communication range. You can engage operators and program managers on the factory floor and senior program stakeholders in the same week, and translate complex technical constraints into terms that drive non-technical decisions
• Strong product instincts. You think about what to build, not just how to build it
• Experience working directly with customers or end users, translating ambiguous needs into concrete, shipped solutions
• AI-native, and relentless about it. We're looking for ridiculously high-pace, high-agency engineers who use AI to compress everything — discovery, prototyping, execution. You can show us concretely how AI already makes you multiples faster, and you're hungry to push it further
• Strong builder with high ownership — comfortable going 0 to 1 and shipping in ambiguous environments where no one hands you the spec
• A visible body of work — a strong GitHub presence or a portfolio of projects you've shipped outside of work
• Founder or founding-engineer experience — you've taken a new product zero to one
• Domain background in aerospace, defense, or manufacturing — or anywhere hardware and software have to meet
• Prior forward-deployed, solutions engineering, or technical consulting experience — you've built directly against messy customer reality before