Instructional Designer

Description

Hadrian - Manufacturing the Future

Hadrian is building autonomous factories to reindustrialize America. By combining AI, advanced software, robotics, and full-stack manufacturing, we help aerospace and defense companies build rockets, satellites, aircraft, ships, and other mission-critical systems up to 10x faster and at significantly lower cost.

Following our $1.37B Series D at a $7.87B valuation, Hadrian is rapidly expanding our manufacturing footprint, launching new capabilities across welding, casting, forging, electronics, additive manufacturing, and more, while scaling our Factory-as-a-Service platform to transform how critical products are built.

Backed by leading investors including JPMorgan Chase, Valor Equity Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund, 137 Ventures, Lux Capital, T. Rowe Price, and Morgan Stanley, we’re building the future of American manufacturing—and looking for exceptional people to help make it happen.

If you’re ready to take on the most challenging and rewarding work of your career while helping create American manufacturing jobs for generations to come, you’re exactly who we’re looking for.

Responsibilities

• Hadrian is building the most advanced manufacturing platform in the world, and Workforce Development is the team responsible for ensuring our people can keep pace with it. At the center of that work is a system of documentation, skills tracking, and compliance content that the entire training program depends on. Without it, technicians cannot be trained, certified, or production-ready at the pace Hadrian requires.
• Workforce Systems is the central function within Workforce Development responsible for unlocking new capabilities and enabling scale across Hadrian's factories. As the pace and complexity of that work grows, we are looking for an Instructional Designer to own the execution that keeps it all running. We need someone who takes pride in accuracy and consistency, can translate raw capability knowledge into structured content across multiple systems, and understands that the work they produce has a direct impact on what happens on the factory floor.
• Capability Knowledge Coding: Take raw capability information and structure it into the systems the workforce depends on, including skills matrix entries, standard documentation, written evaluations, and compliance course assignments.
• Content Revisioning: Manage the revision process for existing documentation and system content as processes change, ensuring updates follow WFD revision control standards and are published accurately across all relevant systems.
• New Process Documentation: Collaborate with Training Specialists and SMEs to understand new processes and develop accompanying documentation once a process has been cleared for technician handoff.
• Trainee Handbooks: Collaborate with Training Specialists and SMEs to identify foundational knowledge requirements for each role and develop trainee handbooks that introduce key concepts.
• Documentation Maintenance: Audit, reformat, and maintain training documentation across all active stations to ensure content meets current WFD standards. Publish approved documentation and manage access requests to maintain audit compliance.
• Skills Matrix Administration: Enter, maintain, and update skills data and organizational requirements within the skills matrix platform based on defined processes and structures.
• LMS Administration: Maintain existing compliance courses, enter and edit data as needed, and build e-learning content for compliance-related topics.
• System Hygiene: Ensure documentation spaces, skills data, and certification records are consistently accurate, well-organized, and ready for internal and external audits.

Requirements

• Attention to detail: you catch errors, inconsistencies, and gaps before they become problems. You understand that accuracy in documentation and systems data directly affects training quality and audit outcomes.
• Knowledge translation: you can take raw or unstructured information from an SME, engineer, or governance team and convert it into clear, structured content across multiple systems.
• Revision control: you treat documentation as a controlled asset. You manage updates through the proper process, ensure nothing is published outside of approved standards, and keep content accurate as things change.
• Systems literacy: you pick up new tools quickly and work within multiple platforms with discipline, regardless of the specific system.
• Organization: you can manage a queue of documentation requests, content builds, and administrative tasks without dropping items or losing track of status.
• Communication: you can work with SMEs, Training Leads, and other partners to gather information, clarify requirements, and close open loops without needing heavy direction.
• What Will Set You Apart
• Background in technical writing, instructional design, or LMS administration in a manufacturing, engineering, or regulated environment
• Experience working with raw process data or engineering documentation as source material for training content
• Familiarity with skills matrix platforms or structured competency frameworks
• Experience in a role where documentation accuracy and version control were non-negotiable
• A manufacturing or engineering background with a genuine interest in how knowledge gets structured and transferred
• Familiarity with AS9100 or ISO documentation standards

Conditions

For this role, the target salary range is $70,000 - $95,000 (actual range may vary based on experience).

This is the lowest to highest salary we reasonably and in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the range may be modified in the future. An employee's pay position within the salary range will be based on several factors, including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.

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
• 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. Learn more about the ITAR here.
• Use of AI in hiring
• Consideration of Criminal History
• Hadrian will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of all applicable laws. We do not ask about criminal history on our application, and we do not consider criminal history before making a conditional offer of employment.
• Hadrian Is An 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. 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.