Staff Materials & Process Engineer

What you'll do

• Encode materials and process expertise into design rules, models, process windows, and manufacturability checks for hybrid additive and machining workflows.
• Develop and validate process guidance and datasets through hands-on testing, characterization, and qualification of hardware.
• Collaborate with software, design, production, quality, and supplier teams to evaluate agent-generated designs and make shop-floor knowledge explicit in the tools.

What they ask for

• Bachelor’s degree in Materials Science, Metallurgy, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of materials and process engineering experience on aerospace or other high-reliability metal hardware.
• Expertise in physical metallurgy across nickel superalloys, copper alloys, aluminum, and titanium.
• Hands-on experience developing or qualifying directed energy deposition processes and integrating them with CNC machining; experience running test programs and generating statistically based design allowables; proficiency in Python or a similar language.

Nice to have

• PhD in Materials Science, Metallurgy, or a related field.
• Experience with sintered-powder routes or laser powder bed fusion; ICME, CALPHAD, process simulation, CAM, flight qualification, or machine learning.

Pay

$150,000 — $226,000 USD (base salary)

Tools

Python, WAAM, DED, CNC, NAVSEA, MMPDS, NASA-STD-6030, CALPHAD

AI focus

Builds agentic design-for-manufacturing tools that reason about geometry, materials, and manufacturing processes; encodes metallurgy and process knowledge into rules, models, and checks.