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Hadrian

Training Specialist, Welding (FX)

Location

Los Angeles, CA

Wage

$27 – $45/hr

Employment Type

Full-time

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Posted on November 4, 2026

Job Description

Overview

Hadrian is building autonomous factories to reindustrialize America by combining AI, advanced software, robotics, and full-stack manufacturing. The Training Specialist - Welding will own welding training at their site, teaching technicians to weld to a written standard across various processes.

Responsibilities

  • Lead welding training at the site, delivering hands-on instruction.
  • Teach technicians to weld to written standards across TIG, MIG, and mechanized processes.
  • Own the evaluation process, including weld tests and practical assessments.
  • Record training, evaluations, and qualifications in training software.
  • Maintain version-controlled, audit-ready welding training documentation.
  • Develop and refine welding curriculum with the welding training lead.
  • Provide day-to-day direction to trainees and escalate performance concerns.

Requirements

  • Experience in multiple welding disciplines, including TIG, MIG, and mechanized welding.
  • 3+ years in a training, instructing, or teaching role focused on entry-level individual contributors.
  • At least 1 year welding in a production environment.
  • Proven ability to train people to weld to a written standard.
  • Openness to learning new processes and methods.
  • Comfort working with software to record training and evaluations.
  • Experience maintaining training documentation to an audit-ready standard.
  • Ability to recognize patterns in how people learn.
  • Self-starter who manages their own time and priorities with minimal oversight.
  • Willingness to travel around 25%, primarily to the Los Angeles facility.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401k
  • PTO

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
PTO
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How this job compares in Los Angeles, CA

Pay in context

At roughly $36/hr, this posting comes in about 18% below the $44/hr median for welding jobs in Los Angeles, CA, where the middle half runs $36–$67/hr across 51 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 20% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. That gap is worth raising directly — in a market this size there is normally room to negotiate toward the median, particularly if you already hold the certifications the posting asks for.

The local market in Los Angeles, CA

We're tracking 87 other active welding openings in Los Angeles, CA right now, from 50 different employers. 18 of them were added in the last week. Across California as a whole we're tracking 486 other active welding openings from 234 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Los Angeles, or widen the search to California.

Hadrian currently has 10 other openings live in California, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in California at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are SpaceX (35), Welding Shop in Los Angeles, CA (17), and Relativity Space (14). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within California, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Long Beach at $49/hr, El Segundo at $48/hr, and Los Angeles at $44/hr. Los Angeles is among them.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for MIG and TIG work. MIG (GMAW) feeds a continuous wire electrode through a shielding-gas nozzle. It lays down metal fast and is forgiving on clean material, which is why it dominates production and light fabrication work. TIG (GTAW) uses a non-consumable tungsten electrode with filler added by hand, giving the operator the most control of any process. It is slow, demanding, and the standard for stainless, aluminum, and anything where the bead has to look as good as it holds.

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Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Training Specialist, Welding (FX) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.