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Senior Materials Engineer (Metal 3D Printing)
$140K–$200K
Los Angeles, CA (On-site) +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Apr 7, 2026
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA (On-site)
El Segundo, California, United States - Experience
- 7+ years of professional materials engineering experience, with at least three years in metals; 10+ years is preferred.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in material science, materials engineering, metallurgy, or mechanical engineering; Master’s or PhD preferred.
About the job
Establish and lead materials testing infrastructure and strategy for metal 3D printing, analyzing material and part quality and using findings to improve manufacturing processes.
What you'll do
- Build materials testing practices and infrastructure; operate equipment to measure material properties and printed-part quality.
- Analyze and present materials data, and work with process development to improve printing processes, including training machine learning models.
- Optimize and automate measurement procedures and develop plans to improve system performance, reliability, and scalability.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in material science, materials engineering, metallurgy, or mechanical engineering.
- 7+ years of professional materials engineering experience, including at least three years in metals.
- Experience developing and optimizing metallurgical sample preparation techniques, including cutting, grinding, polishing, acid etching, and optical microscopy.
Nice to have
- Master’s or PhD in a listed engineering or materials discipline; 10+ years of materials engineering experience.
- Metal additive manufacturing, LPBF, process development, complex materials equipment, or statistical data analysis experience.
Pay
$140,000-$200,000 USD base salary
Tools
laser powder bed fusion (LPBF), R, JMP, Minitab
AI focus
Work with the process development team to incorporate materials findings into improvements to upstream printing processes, including training advanced machine learning models.
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