Manufacturing Engineer

About this role

MANUFACTURING ENGINEER

Freeform builds AI-native manufacturing systems that unify software, hardware, and physics to produce industrial-scale parts at the speed of human ideation. By treating manufacturing as a single integrated system, we unlock a new era of innovation where complex hardware is designed, built, and scaled without limits.

As a Manufacturing Engineer at Freeform, you will take on one of the defining engineering challenges in advanced manufacturing: scaling the post-processing of complex metal additive parts from early-stage operations to true production volume. The gap between "it works" and "it works at scale, repeatably, and economically" is where this role lives.

Freeform has built what others are still trying to figure out - a fully autonomous, software-defined metal parts factory - and post-processing is the critical path to getting there. You'll be architecting systems and processes capable of handling extraordinary part complexity, material diversity, and production throughput simultaneously, while maintaining the agility that lets our R&D engine keep pushing the frontier.

This is a greenfield engineering problem at massive scale, not an optimization exercise. You'll need to think in systems, move fast without creating brittleness, and make pragmatic tradeoffs that compound in the right direction over time. The work will touch every function in the company and your decisions will directly shape what Freeform can build, for whom, and how fast.

If you've thrived in high-velocity hardware environments where the processes didn't exist yet and the stakes were real, this role was built for you.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with engineers to design and implement scalable manufacturing processes for new hardware and printed parts

• Support part flow through the factory by improving fixturing, test procedures, and post-processing steps

• Develop lightweight documentation and process standards to support scaling production without slowing engineering iteration

• Build and iterate on tooling, jigs, and test setups to support reliable, high-throughput production

• Help identify bottlenecks and inefficiencies in how parts, materials, and data move through the factory, and work with cross-functional teams to improve them

• Support early production of high-performance printed parts, helping bridge the gap between R&D and high-rate…