General Matter
Materials & Process Engineer
$140K–$190K
Los Angeles, CA +1 · Full-time · Posted Aug 26, 2026
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles, California, United States - Experience
- 5+ years of professional materials and/or process engineering experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in materials engineering, metallurgical engineering, mechanical engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
About the job
Owns metallic material selection, characterization, qualification, and process development for hardware, bridging materials science with design, manufacturing, and testing.
What you'll do
- Develop material property data and design allowables, and define or improve metal manufacturing processes.
- Partner with design, manufacturing, and test teams; review drawings, specifications, and material requirements.
- Lead failure investigations and establish characterization, inspection, documentation, and quality methods.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in materials engineering, metallurgical engineering, mechanical engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
- Evidence of exceptional ability, such as prior projects, a portfolio, or completed products.
- Hands-on experience taking materials and processes from selection through characterization, qualification, and into production.
- Working breadth across metallic material; ability to obtain and maintain any required security clearance and access authorization.
Nice to have
- Master’s degree or Ph.D. in materials engineering or a related field.
- Experience with failure analysis and characterization techniques, or material qualification, design allowables, and industry specifications.
Pay
$140,000-$190,000 USD annually, base salary
Tools
heat treatment, welding, fractography, metallography, mechanical testing, non-destructive evaluation, SEM, FTIR
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