Hadrian Automation is building advanced systems that automate technical data understanding and help accelerate precision manufacturing planning and execution. As a Machine Learning Engineer, you will design and scale agentic document understanding systems that turn engineering drawings and CAD models into structured data used to generate processes and plan factories.
What you’ll do
- Design, build, and deploy agentic systems that read multi-page engineering drawing sets, including page classification and extraction of parts lists, notes, tables, dimensions, GD&T, and weld symbols.
- Build the supporting tools for agents, including image processing, geometry, and CAD registration, and determine what belongs in code versus the model.
- Own system evaluation end-to-end, using gold datasets, accuracy metrics, LLM-as-judge rubrics, and online checks to flag failures on documents without ground truth.
- Work across the full agent lifecycle, including prompt and exemplar design, orchestration, tracing, cost and latency, and production pipelines that move outputs into databases and applications.
- Combine frontier models, open-source tools, and classical computer vision to deliver document understanding systems for manufacturing use cases.
What you bring
- Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering (or similar discipline), or an equivalent amount of industry experience.
- 5+ years of experience in Machine Learning and/or Computer Vision, with ownership from prototype through production.
- Hands-on experience building LLM or VLM-based agents, including tool use, structured outputs, and graph orchestration.
- Experience designing evaluations for non-deterministic systems and using results to determine what ships.
- An AI-native builder profile with strong business and product sense.
Tools and technologies
OpenCV, scikit-image, AWS, Bedrock, GovCloud, OpenTelemetry, MLflow, Langfuse, LLM, VLM, OCR
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
What sets this role apart
- Experience with classical computer vision (OpenCV, scikit-image) and training or fine-tuning detection, segmentation, or OCR models.
- Visual document understanding and layout analysis experience, especially for technical, dense, high-variance documents.
- Experience in aerospace, defense, or manufacturing, including work with 3D/CAD/CAM data for manufacturing applications.
- AWS experience, including Bedrock or GovCloud environments.
- Tracing and observability for LLM applications (OpenTelemetry, MLflow, Langfuse, etc.).
- Strong software engineering skills and prior web development experience.
- A passion for manufacturing and belief in better software for the industry.
Location: San Francisco Bay Area, CA (onsite)
Compensation Range: USD 215,000 - 359,000 per year
ITAR requirements
To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), you must be a U.S. citizen or national, lawful permanent resident, 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.
Use of AI in hiring
- Hadrian uses AI-assisted tools in recruiting to help the team work more efficiently, including an AI-powered notetaker that records and transcribes interviews and helps coordinate feedback.
- These tools support the 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 Hadrian’s Privacy Policy.
Consideration of criminal history
Hadrian will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable laws. The company does not ask about criminal history on the application and does not consider criminal history before making a conditional offer.
Equal opportunity employer
Hadrian does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, marital status, mental status, physical disability or any other legally protected status. The company makes reasonable accommodations for disabled candidates and employees, including for candidates or employees disabled by pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions.
