Materials Engineering Intern (Summer 2027)

The role

You will help establish and refine materials testing infrastructure and best practices for metal 3D printing systems. You will study material behavior, analyze material property data, and collaborate with various engineering teams to support process improvement.

What you will do

• Assist the Materials Engineering team in operating equipment to measure material properties such as tensile strength, surface roughness, and microstructure
• Support generation and tracking of quality metrics for printed customer parts
• Organize, analyze, and help interpret materials data
• Assist in developing and optimizing metallurgical sample preparation techniques
• Support the process development team in tying materials findings into upstream printing process improvements
• Help establish and refine procedures for measuring and quantifying material quality

Required qualifications

• Currently pursuing Bachelor's degree in materials science, materials engineering, metallurgy, mechanical engineering, or similar discipline
• Experience with experimental design and statistical data analysis
• Strong data analysis skills and ability to interpret important information from extremely large data sets

Nice to have

• Undergraduate research experience in materials science, metallurgy, or mechanical engineering
• Exposure to metallurgical sample preparation such as cutting, grinding, polishing, acid etching, and optical microscopy
• Experience with metal additive manufacturing or laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) processes
• Experience operating materials characterization equipment (SEM, Instron, etc.)
• Experience with statistical data analysis software such as R, JMP, or Minitab
• Passion for improving the state of metal 3D printing
• Comfortable working in fast-paced, ambiguous environments and iterating quickly
• Strong communicator who collaborates across disciplines and proactively seeks support when needed
• Willing to take ownership of tasks big and small, with a hands-on, problem-solving mindset
• Strong work ethic with a refuse-to-fail mindset

Benefits

• Relocation assistance provided
• Free daily catered lunch and dinner
• Fully stocked kitchenette
• Casual dress
• Flexible work hours
• 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. They treat manufacturing as a single integrated system to unlock innovation in complex hardware.