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Senior Materials Engineer (Metal 3D Printing)

Freeform· Process Engineering
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Hawthorne, CA$140k - $200kfull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Senior Materials Engineer at Freeform responsible for establishing M&P infrastructure, strategy, and best practices for metal 3D printing; leads materials testing, data analysis, and process improvements from cradle to grave.

Responsibilities

  • Establish Freeform’s M&P best practices, and 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 such as dimensional accuracy, defect distribution, and surface roughness
  • Organize, analyze and interpret data and present key findings
  • Work with process development team to tie key materials findings into improvement of upstream printing processes, including training our advanced machine learning models
  • Establish and optimize processes and procedures for measuring and quantifying material quality
  • Create automation for M&P procedures to take human out of the loop
  • Strategize continuous improvement plans to enhance system performance, reliability, and scalability

Qualifications

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

Skills

Required:Material properties testingData analysis and interpretationMetallurgical sample preparationProcess improvement
Nice to have:Automation

Benefits

  • Significant stock option packages
  • 100% employer-paid Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance (premium PPO and HMO options)
  • Life insurance
  • Traditional and Roth 401(k)
  • Relocation assistance provided
  • 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
Last updated Oct 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Creative manufacturing company specializing in AI-native manufacturing systems with origins linked to SpaceX engineers.

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