R&D M&P Lab Technician - Build a World-Class Lab

Boom Technology, Inc.; Centennial (CO); On-site; USD 91,693,000 - 131,809,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO

Equity options

Merit-based culture

Job summary

Boom Technology, Inc. is seeking a hands-on M&P lab technician to help establish a world-class materials lab for aerospace alloys. You will develop prep routes, calibration, templates, and data tracking in collaboration with lab engineers.

You will perform sectioning, mounting, polishing, etching, hardness testing, and microstructure analysis, driving the lab's first set of standard procedures and reporting from day one.

Qualifications

• 2+ years hands-on experience in a metallurgical or materials testing laboratory.
• Strong metallographic prep skills and microstructure evaluation experience - ideally on aerospace alloys (nickel superalloys, titanium, stainless).
• Hardness and microhardness testing proficiency.
• Experience reading engineering drawings, AMS/ASTM specs, and supplier certifications.
• Disciplined documentation habits from an AS9100/NADCAP-type environment.
• The ability to work independently and communicate findings directly to engineers.

Responsibilities

• Prepare metallurgical samples - sectioning, mounting, polishing, etching - across stainless steels, titanium, and nickel-based superalloys.
• Perform microstructural analysis on engine components: machined, brazed, welded, heat-treated, and thermally sprayed hardware.
• Run hardness and microhardness testing, furnace uniformity surveys, and chemical/cleaning solution analysis.
• Support mechanical test operations - tensile, fatigue, creep, elevated temperature - alongside the lab engineer: specimen handling, setup, and data recording.
• Support failure and damage investigations on hardware from Boom's engine test cell, alongside M&P engineers.
• Evaluate supplier material and process certifications against engineering specs and drawings.
• Write the reports: traceable, complete, and defensible - your documentation is the permanent engineering record.
• Help stand up the lab itself: procedures, calibration systems, equipment selection input, consumables management.
• Support allowables and material characterization test programs as they spin up.

Skills

Metallography

Microstructure evaluation

Hardness testing

Reading drawings

AS9100/NADCAP experience

Education

Metallurgy or Materials Science degree

Tools

SEM/EDS

Metallurgical lab equipment

Job description

Boom Technology, Inc. is seeking a hands-on M&P lab technician to help establish a world-class materials lab for aerospace alloys. You will develop prep routes, calibration, templates, and data tracking in collaboration with lab engineers.

You will perform sectioning, mounting, polishing, etching, hardness testing, and microstructure analysis, driving the lab's first set of standard procedures and reporting from day one.