Lead Additive Process Engineer (Metals) & Automation

Socket.dev; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 135,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401k

Relocation assistance

Flexible vacation

Equity

Job summary

Hadrian is transforming manufacturing with autonomous factories and advanced additive processes. The role centers on leading metal AM parameter development, DOEs, and implementing in situ monitoring and digital traceability to speed up production-readiness.

You will build or evaluate tools to accelerate development, collaborate across materials, software, and welding engineering teams, and explore novel technologies to enhance process capability. ITAR rules apply, so U.S.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in an engineering discipline.
• 3+ years of experience in additive manufacturing parameter development, with a strong focus on metal processes.
• Hands on experience with additive manufacturing equipment and software, including build processors or process simulation tools.
• Experience building or improving automated workflows, scripting, or tooling to speed up process or parameter development.
• Ability to work closely with materials engineering to translate new materials into validated, production ready processes.
• Comfort working in an undefined space, building new processes and tools rather than relying on established norms.
• U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident (required for ITAR compliance).

Responsibilities

• Lead process and parameter development for additive processes, with a primary focus on metals.
• Executing DOEs to define and measure process windows and drive machine, material, and process readiness.
• Drive adoption of in situ monitoring, statistical process control, and digital traceability records.
• Build software tools internally, or evaluate and implement existing tools on the market, to accelerate parameter development and process automation.
• Continuously research, evaluate, and bring in novel tools and technologies that support and strengthen process development capability.
• Design and build automated workflows and creative methods to efficiently validate and implement.
• Serve as the point of contact for developing specific parameter needs tied to unique part geometries or to overcome platform specific challenges.
• Work closely with the materials engineering team to roll out, validate, and implement new parameters and processes into production.
• Work cross functionally with applications engineers, materials engineers, systems engineers, software engineering, and welding engineers.

Skills

DOE experiments

In situ monitoring

Automation tooling

Parameter development

Python scripting

Education

Master's degree in engineering

Tools

Process simulation tools

AM equipment

Job description

Hadrian is transforming manufacturing with autonomous factories and advanced additive processes. The role centers on leading metal AM parameter development, DOEs, and implementing in situ monitoring and digital traceability to speed up production-readiness.

You will build or evaluate tools to accelerate development, collaborate across materials, software, and welding engineering teams, and explore novel technologies to enhance process capability. ITAR rules apply, so U.S.