Senior Additive Manufacturing Development Engineer

About this role

SENIOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING DEVELOPMENT 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 Senior Additive Manufacturing Development Engineer at Freeform, you will play a critical role in the development of our advanced printing technology including machine functionality, part quality, automation projects, and complex print file preparation. You will own projects cradle to grave as a responsible engineer, taking customer designs from concept through printing, testing, and delivery. You will also contribute to the overall machine system architecture with a key focus on automation by developing a fundamental understanding of the printing factory and leveraging your technical insights to advance system capabilities.

Responsibilities:

• Understand printing system capabilities and roadmap, and work with internal engineering teams (mechanical, electrical, software) to implement solutions that further automate the printing process for high volume production

• Drive all stages of print production development including file preparation, printing, post processing, and quality control

• Analyze in-situ data and post-print part quality to drive continuous improvement

• Use first-principles thinking to understand problems, define test methods, evaluate solutions, iterate and provide technical recommendations to internal and external stakeholders

• Document application requirements and objectives, statements of work, standard operating procedures, next steps and action items to align all internal and external team members

• Interface with external customers to communicate Freeform’s technical capabilities; work with customers on improving Design for Additive Manufacturing (DFAM)

• Contribute to Freeform’s internal technology development with feedback from internal and external stakeholders via detailed design and systems level improvements

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or similar technical discipline

• 5+ years of professional experience with additive manufacturing

• 2+ years of professional experience with direct metal laser sintering (DMLS)

• Experience with print file preparation

• Experience with DFAM and CAD software

Nice to Have:

• Master’s degree in mechanical engineering, materials engineering, or similar technical discipline

• Process development experience for metal additive manufacturing

• Scripting experience in Matlab (or similar) for toolpath generation

• Experience working with internal and/or external customers

• Mechanical systems design experience

• Detail oriented with excellent verbal, graphical, and technical communication skills

• Demonstrated creative problem solving abilities and positive attitude

Location:

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Based in Hawthorne, our vertically integrated facility brings technology development, R&D, and production together under one roof. We operate at the center of LA’s deep tech ecosystem, surrounded by some of the most ambitious hardware innovation happening anywhere in the country.

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Our fast-paced, cross-functional environment is built on close collaboration, and as such, this role requires full-time onsite presence (five days a week), with very limited exceptions.

What We Offer:

• We have an inclusive and diverse culture that values collaboration, learning, and making deliberate data-driven decisions.

• We offer a unique opportunity to be an early and integral member of a rapidly…