Senior Materials Engineer (Metal 3D Printing)

The role

You will establish M&P infrastructure, strategy, and best practices for advanced metal 3D printing technology. You will own materials engineering efforts including sample testing, data analysis, and strategic process improvements.

What you will do

• Establish M&P best practices, materials testing infrastructure and strategy
• Operate equipment to measure material properties such as tensile strength, surface roughness, and microstructure
• Generate and track quality metrics of printed customer parts
• Organize, analyze and interpret data and present key findings
• Work with process development team to tie materials findings into improvement of upstream printing processes
• Establish and optimize processes and procedures for measuring and quantifying material quality
• Create automation for M&P procedures
• Strategize continuous improvement plans to enhance system performance, reliability, and scalability

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in material science, materials engineering, metallurgy, or mechanical engineering
• 7+ years of professional materials engineering experience
• At least three years in metals
• Experience developing and optimizing metallurgical sample preparation techniques such as cutting, grinding, polishing, acid etching, and optical microscopy

Nice to have

• Master’s or PhD in in material science, materials engineering, metallurgy, or mechanical engineering
• 10+ years of materials engineering experience
• Experience with metal additive manufacturing
• Experience with laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) processes
• Experience in process development
• Experience operating complex materials equipment
• Familiarity with processing large datasets and statistical data analysis software such as R, JMP, or Minitab
• Passion for improving the state of metal 3D printing

Benefits

• Significant stock option packages
• 100% employer-paid Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance
• Life insurance
• Traditional and Roth 401(k)
• Relocation assistance
• Paid vacation, sick leave, and company holidays
• Generous Paid Parental Leave and extended transition back to work for the birthing parent
• Free daily catered lunch and dinner, and fully stocked kitchenette
• Casual dress, flexible work hours, and regular catered team building events

About the company

Freeform builds AI-native manufacturing systems that unify software, hardware, and physics to produce industrial-scale parts. Their vertically integrated facility in Hawthorne brings technology development, R&D, and production together.