Senior AM Equipment Engineer
at Divergent · 251-500 employees
Series E · $290M · Sep 2025
- Seniority
- Senior
- Location
- Torrance, California, United States
- Posted
- 5d ago
at Divergent · 251-500 employees
Divergent Technologies builds advanced metal 3D‐printing manufacturing systems that produce specialized missile and other defense components for major U.S. primes.
<div class="content-intro"><p>Divergent is a technology company that has architected, invented, built, and commercialized an end-to-end factory system called the Divergent Adaptive Production System (DAPS) that comprehensively uses machine learning to optimally engineer, additively manufacture, and flexibly assemble complex integrated vehicle structures and subsystems. Products created using DAPS are superior in performance, lower in cost, rapidly customizable to meet mission and customer-specific requirements, faster to market, and scalable on demand to high volume production. Divergent is a qualified Tier 1 supplier to global automotive OEMs, and Divergent is now expanding to support mission critical needs in the Aerospace and Defense sector. Join us to be a part of this transformative journey, where your impact will shape the future of technology and production.</p></div><h2>Purpose</h2> <p><span data-contrast="auto">Join our mission to redefine aerospace and automotive manufacturing through advanced Additive Manufacturing. We are seeking a hands-on Additive Manufacturing Equipment Engineer to help transition next-generation Laser Powder Bed Fusion (L-PBF) production equipment from development into high-volume manufacturing.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":120}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">This role helps ensure our production equipment is stable, reliable, scalable, and capable of delivering world-class safety, quality, delivery, and cost performance. As our manufacturing footprint expands across multiple factories, you will solve equipment problems at the machine level and help transform those solutions into engineering standards deployed across the entire fleet.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":120}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">Success in this role requires strong troubleshooting skills, independent technical judgment, and the drive to grow into broader fleet-level ownership. You will work alongside senior equipment engineers to stabilize new machines, improve reliability, and build the standards that carry the fleet as it scales.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":120}"> </span></p> <h2>The Role</h2> <p><span class="TextRun SCXW98612920 BCX0" lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW98612920 BCX0">As </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW98612920 BCX0">an</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW98612920 BCX0"> Additive Manufacturing Equipment Engineer</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW98612920 BCX0"> II</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW98612920 BCX0">, you will </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW98612920 BCX0">take</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW98612920 BCX0"> technical </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW98612920 BCX0">responsibility for assigned</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW98612920 BCX0"> production equipment after engineering qualification. You will work at the intersection of equipment engineering, manufacturing, quality, reliability, and operations</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW98612920 BCX0">, applying independent judgment to solve complex problems and improving standard work with input from your manager and senior engineers</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW98612920 BCX0">.</span></span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW98612920 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335559739":120}"> </span></p> <p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">You will:</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":120}"> </span></strong></p> <ul> <li data-leveltext="•" data-font="" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"•","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Support the transition of newly developed production equipment from qualification into sustained manufacturing.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":60}"> </span></li> </ul> <ul> <li data-leveltext="•" data-font="" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"•","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Drive improvements in equipment reliability, throughput, yield, and overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) on assigned machines.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":60}"> </span></li> </ul> <ul> <li data-leveltext="•" data-font="" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"•","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Troubleshoot mechanical, electrical, controls, and process-related issues affecting production, adapting established methods to new problems.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":60}"> </span></li> </ul> <ul> <li data-leveltext="•" data-font="" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"•","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="4" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Apply and improve engineering standards that ensure consistency across production assets.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":60}"> </span></li> </ul> <ul> <li data-leveltext="•" data-font="" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"•","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="5" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Provide production feedback to design engineering on machine performance and reliability.</span><sp