Materials Process Engineer — Hands-On, High-Impact Hardware

Socket.dev; Centennial (CO); On-site; USD 87,000 - 117,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

On-site meals

Gym access

Job summary

Boom is seeking a materials engineer to own a defined portion of the Materials Process domain, from qualification to validation, including advanced joining, coatings, and non-destructive testing. You will work across design, propulsion, and manufacturing, moving from concept to high-performance hardware across office, lab, and shop floor environments.

The role involves characterizing extreme-environment materials for gas turbines and high-Mach flight programs, performing rapid failure analyses

Qualifications

• Degree in Materials Science & Engineering or equivalent hands-on hardware experience.
• At least one internship or co-op 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.
• Fundamental understanding of materials behavior – from microstructural strengthening and fatigue failure mechanisms to corrosion resistance and high-temperature oxidation.
• 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

Hands-on lab

Metallurgy

Problem solving

Education

Materials Science & Engineering degree

Internship/co-op in engineering materials

Tools

SEM

Heat-treat furnaces

Additive manufacturing

Metallography

Job description

Boom is seeking a materials engineer to own a defined portion of the Materials Process domain, from qualification to validation, including advanced joining, coatings, and non-destructive testing. You will work across design, propulsion, and manufacturing, moving from concept to high-performance hardware across office, lab, and shop floor environments.

The role involves characterizing extreme-environment materials for gas turbines and high-Mach flight programs, performing rapid failure analyses