Senior NDE Engineer, UT/PAUT for Additive Titanium

Coronal Technologies; Long Beach (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Coronal Technologies is building its first dedicated NDE team to support high-criticality additively manufactured components. The role focuses on developing inspection processes, procedures, and documentation, while training and certifying the team for fracture-critical flight hardware.

The candidate will own method authority, drive UT and PAUT technique development on titanium, and align NDE practices with AMS-STD-2154, ASTM standards, NASA-STD-5009, and Nadcap expectations. A U.S.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in aerospace, pressure vessel, nuclear or similar regime where missed indication is critical.
• Hands-on phased array experience, not supervisory
• Familiar with calibration block design, DAC/TCG, encoded scanning and data interpretation with UT equipment
• Procedures written to AMS-STD-2154, ASTM E2700/E1417/E1742
• Familiarity with NASA-STD-5009 and MIL-HDBK-1823
• Ability to negotiate flaw size requirements with stress engineers
• U.S. person as defined at 22 CFR 120.62

Responsibilities

• Develop inspection processes and documentation, train the team, and certify inspection of fracture-critical flight hardware.
• Provide method authority: written practice, UT and PAUT procedures, audits of Level I/II personnel as the team grows.
• Develop technique on DED titanium, including focal laws, probe/wedge selection, calibration standards, and validation against samples.
• Establish NDE-derived initial flaw sizes with structures and M&P; ensure detectable flaw size is a design input.

Skills

Phased array UT

Ultrasonic testing (UT)

PAUT procedure development

NDT method authority

Education

ASNT NDT Level III certificate in UT

Tools

Evident

Zetec

M2M/Eddyfi

AOS

Job description

Coronal Technologies is building its first dedicated NDE team to support high-criticality additively manufactured components. The role focuses on developing inspection processes, procedures, and documentation, while training and certifying the team for fracture-critical flight hardware.

The candidate will own method authority, drive UT and PAUT technique development on titanium, and align NDE practices with AMS-STD-2154, ASTM standards, NASA-STD-5009, and Nadcap expectations. A U.S.