Materials Eng Intern: Metal 3D Printing & Data-Driven R&D

Freeform; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 41,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Free daily catered meals

Casual dress

Flexible work hours

Job summary

Freeform, based in Hawthorne, is building AI-native manufacturing systems that unify software, hardware, and physics to produce metal 3D printed parts. As a Materials Engineering Intern at Freeform, you will help establish materials testing infrastructure and best practices for our advanced metal printing systems.

You will collaborate with process development, mechanical and simulation engineers to analyze material property data and contribute to rapid iteration and continuous improvement of the

Qualifications

• Experience with experimental design and statistical data analysis.
• Ability to interpret important information from extremely large data sets.

Responsibilities

• Assist the Materials Engineering team in operating equipment to measure material properties such as tensile strength, surface roughness, and microstructure.
• Support generation and tracking of quality metrics for printed customer parts such as dimensional accuracy, defect distribution, and surface roughness.
• Organize, analyze, and help interpret materials data, and assist in presenting key findings.
• Assist in developing and optimizing metallurgical sample preparation techniques such as cutting, grinding, polishing, acid etching, and optical microscopy.
• Support the process development team in tying materials findings into upstream printing process improvements.
• Help establish and refine procedures for measuring and quantifying material quality.

Skills

Experimental design

Statistical data analysis

Data interpretation from large data

Strong communicator

Education

Bachelor's degree in materials science/engineering/metallurgy/mechanical engineering

Tools

R

JMP

Minitab

SEM

Instron

Job description

Freeform, based in Hawthorne, is building AI-native manufacturing systems that unify software, hardware, and physics to produce metal 3D printed parts. As a Materials Engineering Intern at Freeform, you will help establish materials testing infrastructure and best practices for our advanced metal printing systems.

You will collaborate with process development, mechanical and simulation engineers to analyze material property data and contribute to rapid iteration and continuous improvement of the