Additive Manufacturing Process Engineer

Divergent is building the new industrial age. Every day, our teams design, manufacture, and assemble advanced systems for some of the world’s most demanding industries. Our integrated engineering and manufacturing platform transforms complex designs into production-ready solutions, helping customers move faster, build smarter, and deliver critical systems when they matter most. Divergent is a qualified Tier 1 supplier to global automotive OEMs and supports leading U.S. aerospace and defense companies. 

Join us and help push the boundaries of what can be built.

Purpose

Drive novel improvements across the L-PBF Additive Manufacturing (AM) process. Achieve best in class printed material performance and cost of goods sold (COGS). Improve in-house printers, develop AM workflow software stack, implement novel print parameters, qualify printed material, and support development of aerospace applications. 

The Role

• Act as a subject matter expert in Laser Powder Bed Fusion to drive high priority improvements to printed material capability, consistency, and total manufacturing cost. 
• Independently define project scope, collaboratively align stakeholders, prioritize resources, organize technical data, and effectively communicate status of development activities. 
• Characterize, control, and qualify improvements to in-house designed L-PBF equipment to produce high quality material in a repeatable fashion. 
• Develop novel print file toolpath generation techniques and process parameters to meet cost and performance needs using internally developed software tools. 
• Utilize and improve material qualification framework to fully characterize AM material properties and geometric capability.  
• Collaborate closely with design, manufacturing, and quality teams to advise on feasibility and risk assessments for new AM products or features. 
• Author and maintain engineering specifications to drive printed material consistency with effective technical writing. 
• Support technical disposition of AM quality non-conformances, and drive root cause corrective action for material or equipment issues. 

Basic Qualifications

• Ability to lawfully access information and technology that is subject to US export controls 
• B.S. or M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Material Science and Engineering, or related engineering field 
• 5+ Years of professional hands-on fabrication, assembly, testing, and/or technical project management experience 
• 5+ years - Developing L-PBF equipment, process parameters, and/or print file programming 
• Ability to lawfully access information and technology that is subject to US export controls (ITAR)