Materials & Manufacturing Process Engineer — Day One Ownership

Boom Technology; Centennial (CO); On-site; USD 87,000 - 117,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

On-site meals

Gym access

Job summary

Boom Technology seeks a Materials & Manufacturing Process Engineer at its Centennial, CO site. Early career engineers own defined material qualification, heat-treat protocols, joining techniques, or coatings with real accountability from day one.

You will characterize extreme-environment materials, perform rapid failure analysis using SEM, plan test campaigns, and help scope, procure, install, and commission new equipment. On-site responsibilities and ownership are emphasized.

Qualifications

• A degree in Materials Science & Engineering, Metallurgy, Mechanical, Aerospace, or Chemical Engineering – or equivalent hands-on hardware experience.
• At least one internship or co-op where you worked with real-world engineering materials, testing, or process characterization.
• Hands-on lab or shop experience – time operating mechanical test frames, metallographic sample prep equipment, heat-treat furnaces, or additive manufacturing machines. This is required, not a nice-to-have.
• A fundamental understanding of materials behavior – from microstructural strengthening and fatigue failure mechanisms to corrosion resistance and high-temperature oxidation.
• A track record of finishing hard things, inside school and outside of it.

Responsibilities

• Own a defined piece of the Materials Process domain – material qualification, investment casing, advanced joining methods, surface coatings, or non-destructive testing – with real accountability for the outcome.
• Interact not only across disciplines (design, propulsion and manufacturing) but also span our physical spaces from office to lab to shop floor – move from clean sheet to high-performance hardware in hand.
• Characterize and validate extreme-environment materials designed to withstand the brutal mechanical and thermal stresses of gas turbines and high-Mach flight programs – up to and including allowable programs.
• Perform rapid failure analysis of testing anomalies using state-of-the-art internal labs, including SEM, to find root-cause and iterate solutions fast via disciplined and documented methodologies.
• Plan and execute test campaigns; everything from mechanical testing of superalloys for LCF/HCF and creep to DOEs for metallic additive to development testing of novel investment casting technologies.
• Help scope, procure, install, and commission new equipment - then use it and train others on it

Skills

Materials science

Metallurgy

Hands-on hardware experience

Lab testing experience

Problem solving

Education

Materials Science & Engineering

Metallurgy

Mechanical Engineering

Aerospace Engineering

Chemical Engineering

Tools

SEM

Metallographic sample prep equipment

Heat-treat furnaces

Additive manufacturing machines

Job description

Boom Technology seeks a Materials & Manufacturing Process Engineer at its Centennial, CO site. Early career engineers own defined material qualification, heat-treat protocols, joining techniques, or coatings with real accountability from day one.

You will characterize extreme-environment materials, perform rapid failure analysis using SEM, plan test campaigns, and help scope, procure, install, and commission new equipment. On-site responsibilities and ownership are emphasized.