Automation Controls Engineer
Hadrian Automation, San Francisco Bay Area, CA
The role
Factory automation is key to Hadrian’s operations. Our team owns the responsibility of designing and delivering elegant equipment solutions that bridge the gap between our core manufacturing processes and the rest of factory operations. We're looking for someone who thrives at the intersection of mechanical systems, real-time control, and software architecture. You'll own the design and optimization of control systems that power our factory automation platform—working alongside mechanical engineers, software architects, and manufacturing teams to ship robust, scalable solutions.
You won't just write PLC code. You'll architect the entire control strategy for equipment that moves parts between processes, orchestrates multi-step manufacturing workflows, validates product quality, and feeds data back to our operations teams. Your designs will span motion control, pneumatics, multi-axis robotics, integrated safety systems, industrial networking, and modern software architectures. You'll make tradeoffs between performance and reliability, simplicity and capability, local control and centralized coordination. And you'll do it in a fast-paced environment where requirements evolve just as fast as we do.