Materials & Process Engineer: Nuclear Hardware Skunkworks

General Matter; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Medical, vision & dental

401(k)

Job summary

General Matter seeks a Materials & Process Engineer to own material selection, characterization, and qualification across hardware. You will bridge chemistry and hardware teams, ensuring materials meet design requirements for production and reliability.

The role emphasizes real-world production readiness, not purely formulation work. You will collaborate daily with design, manufacturing, and test engineering to tackle challenging materials and process questions, at pace typical of a fast-moving

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in materials engineering, metallurgical engineering, mechanical engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
• 5+ years of professional materials and/or process engineering experience.
• Hands-on experience taking materials and processes from selection through characterization, qualification, and into production.
• Working breadth across metallic material.
• Ability to obtain and maintain any required security clearance and access authorization.
• Masters or PhD in materials engineering or related field (preferred).
• Generalist depth across metals (heat treatment, welding, forming, casting/forging, coatings).
• Experience with failure analysis and characterization techniques (fractography, metallography, SEM, FTIR, mechanical testing).
• Experience serving as interface between chemistry/materials-science and mechanical/hardware teams.

Responsibilities

• Materials & Process Development: select, characterize, and qualify metallic materials across hardware.
• Develop physical, mechanical, and thermal property data and design allowables.
• Define and improve manufacturing and special processes for metals (heat treatment, welding).
• Drive material/process choices to increase reliability and reduce cost as development moves to production.
• Cross-Functional Interface between chemistry/materials-science and hardware development.

Skills

Materials engineering

Metallurgical knowledge

Mechanical aptitude

Security clearance feasibility

Education

Bachelor's degree in materials/metals/mechanical engineering

Master's or PhD in materials engineering

Tools

SEM

FTIR

Metallography

Fractography

Mechanical testing equipment

Job description

General Matter seeks a Materials & Process Engineer to own material selection, characterization, and qualification across hardware. You will bridge chemistry and hardware teams, ensuring materials meet design requirements for production and reliability.

The role emphasizes real-world production readiness, not purely formulation work. You will collaborate daily with design, manufacturing, and test engineering to tackle challenging materials and process questions, at pace typical of a fast-moving