Senior Materials Engineer of Metal 3D Printing

Profile

As a Senior Materials Engineer at Freeform, you will establish the company’s M&P infrastructure, strategy, and best practices for our advanced metal 3D printing technology. You will own materials engineering efforts from cradle to grave, including hands-on sample testing, analysis of findings, and strategic process improvements. Success here does not require prior 3D printing experience; we seek intelligent, motivated, and collaborative engineers who thrive on solving challenging problems.

Responsibilities

• Establish Freeform’s M&P best practices, 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 parts, including dimensional accuracy, defect distribution, and surface roughness
• Organize, analyze, and interpret data and present key findings
• Collaborate with the process development team to translate materials findings into upstream printing process improvements, including training advanced machine learning models
• Establish and optimize processes and procedures for measuring and quantifying material quality
• Create automation for M&P procedures to reduce human intervention
• Plan continuous improvement initiatives to enhance system performance, reliability, and scalability

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Materials Science, Materials Engineering, Metallurgy, or Mechanical Engineering
• 7+ years of professional materials engineering experience (at least 3 years in metals)
• Experience developing and optimizing metallurgical sample preparation techniques (cutting, grinding, polishing, acid etching, optical microscopy)