Manufacturing Engineer — Advanced Capital Equipment

Divergent; Long Beach (CA); On-site; USD 111,000 - 204,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity plan

Bonuses

Paid time off

Parental leave

Health benefits

Job summary

Divergent is seeking a Manufacturing Engineering professional to scale and productionize advanced capital equipment. You will own readiness from development through production, improve processes, and mentor teams, ensuring reliability and manufacturability.

Join us to shape the manufacturing tools of the future, collaborate across teams, and deliver high-impact equipment for aerospace, automotive, and defense sectors.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related technical discipline.
• 1+ years (Engineer II), 5+ years (Senior) or 7+ years (Staff) of relevant experience.
• Demonstrated ownership of complex areas.
• Strong experience in technical troubleshooting, RCCA, high-quality technical documentation, and/or manufacturing.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary manufacturing development engineering owner for one or more critical factory modules, subsystems, and/ processes.
• Develop deep technical understanding of assigned systems, including architecture, operating modes, controls, interfaces, failure modes, and interactions.
• Own the manufacturing readiness of complex machine systems from development through build, commissioning, validation, qualification, and production handoff.
• Lead the development and continuous improvement of clear, accurate, executable work instructions, standard operating procedures, test procedures, and process documentation.
• Lead complex troubleshooting, RCCA, and corrective action implementation to improve machine reliability, uptime, quality, and repeatability.
• Partner with design engineering, automation, software, operations, quality, supply chain, and R&D to improve manufacturability and execution.
• Drive DFM, DFA, tolerance, process capability, tooling, fixture, and cycle time improvements.
• Support design changes through PLM, configuration management, change control, implementation planning, and production cut-in.
• Mentor engineers and technicians while raising standards for ownership, technical rigor, documentation quality, and follow-through

Skills

Technical ownership

Troubleshooting

Documentation

Manufacturing

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or related discipline

Tools

PLM

MES

Configuration management

Change control

Job description

Divergent is seeking a Manufacturing Engineering professional to scale and productionize advanced capital equipment. You will own readiness from development through production, improve processes, and mentor teams, ensuring reliability and manufacturability.

Join us to shape the manufacturing tools of the future, collaborate across teams, and deliver high-impact equipment for aerospace, automotive, and defense sectors.