Additive Manufacturing Manager - Data Center Cooling

Xpertise Recruitment; Baltimore (MD); Hybrid; USD 175,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Signing bonus

Job summary

Xpertise Recruitment in the Baltimore area is seeking an Additive Manufacturing Manager to stand up and run an in-house metal L-PBF lab. You will commission a large-format printer, develop SOPs, and lead a lab technician while collaborating with thermal engineers on DfAM for high‑value heat exchangers for data centers.

You will own the relationship with overseas manufacturers, approve print parameters, and manage post-processing including depowdering, heat treatment, CT scanning, and leak

Qualifications

• 3+ years in additive manufacturing (5+ years preferred)
• Hands-on metal laser powder bed fusion on large-format machines (400 mm+)
• DfAM experience to improve yield, weight, cycle time

Responsibilities

• Stand up and run an in-house metal L-PBF lab; buy equipment, commission printer, write procedures, manage lab technician
• Act as the DfAM expert with thermal engineers to print large heat exchangers
• Own relationship with overseas manufacturer: approve parameters and build packages; reject nonconforming builds
• Oversee post-processing and quality: depowdering, support removal, heat treatment, CT scanning, leak/pressure testing
• Drive root-cause analysis for nonconformances and reduce time, cost, and yield loss
• Join international factory visits 1–2 times per year and help shape future production facility

Skills

Additive manufacturing

Metal L-PBF

Large-format printer

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Materials or Manufacturing Engineering

Tools

CT scanning

Job description

Additive Manufacturing Manager - Data Center Cooling

Baltimore, MD area (Hybrid; lab near BWI, 2-3 days per week)

$175,000-$225,000 base + equity

We're hiring an Additive Manufacturing Manager (metal L-PBF, DfAM) to set up and run in-house printing of AI-designed heat exchangers for hyperscale data centers. As Additive Manufacturing Manager you'll commission a large-format metal printer, build the lab from scratch and own quality across the print and post-processing chain.

About the Company

Our client is a seed-funded hardware start-up (c.5 people, $7.5M raised, founded 2022) working on US Eastern hours, with a lab near Baltimore. It uses AI and multiphysics simulation to design thermal hardware, starting with heat exchangers for data centers, defence and heavy industry.

Why We're Hiring

The company is bringing metal printing in house. It needs a builder who has stood up a metal printing cell before and can hold its overseas manufacturing partner to spec.

Key Responsibilities

• Stand up and run an in-house metal L-PBF lab: buy equipment, commission a large-format printer, write operating procedures and manage a lab technician
• .Act as the DfAM expert alongside the thermal engineers, making large (200-300 lb), thin-walled, internal-channel heat exchangers printable
• .Own the technical relationship with an overseas manufacturing partner: approve parameters and build packages, and reject builds that miss spec
• .Oversee post-processing and quality: depowdering, support removal, heat treatment, CT scanning, and leak and pressure testing
• .Take nonconformances to root cause and drive down print time, cost and yield loss
• .Join international factory visits once or twice a year and help shape a future production facility

Required Skills & Experien

• ce
  3+ years in additive manufacturing (5+ years preferred), with hands-on metal laser powder bed fusion on large-format, multi-laser machines (400 mm+ build envelope
• s).Practical DfAM experience changing designs to improve yield, weight, cycle time or co
• st.Post-print processing and quality testing: stress relief, heat treatment, internal depowdering, CT scanning, leak testing and NC
• Rs.Experience holding outside manufacturers or service bureaus to sp
• ec.Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Materials or Manufacturing Engineering, or simil
• ar.On site near BWI 2-3 days a week (commuting range from Philadelphia to Arlington, VA, or willing to relocate), with availability for early or late calls and 1-2 international trips a ye

Nice to

• Have
  Commissioned a metal AM cell or set up a printer fleet (installation, powder handling, inert gas, saf
• ety).Managed additive manufacturing technic
• ians.Hard-tech start-up or high-consequence metal manufacturing experience (energy, aerospace, defence, comput
• ing).
  

Summary Be

• nefits
  $175k-$225k base (top of range for exceptional candidates) plus competitive
• equityPossible signing bonus to cover rel
• ocationHybrid, 2-3 days a week at the lab n
• ear BWIBuild and run a new lab from

day one
Candidates must be authorised to work in the US. Visa transfers can be considered for exceptional can

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