Senior Additive Manufacturing Process Engineer

<div class="content-intro"><p>Divergent is a technology company that has architected, invented, built, and commercialized an end-to-end factory system called the Divergent Adaptive Production System (DAPS) that comprehensively uses machine learning to optimally engineer, additively manufacture, and flexibly assemble complex integrated vehicle structures and subsystems. Products created using DAPS are superior in performance, lower in cost, rapidly customizable to meet mission and customer-specific requirements, faster to market, and scalable on demand to high volume production. Divergent is a qualified Tier 1 supplier to global automotive OEMs, and Divergent is now expanding to support mission critical needs in the Aerospace and Defense sector. Join us to be a part of this transformative journey, where your impact will shape the future of technology and production.</p></div><h2>Purpose</h2> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Drive novel improvements across the L-PBF Additive Manufacturing (AM) process. Achieve best in class printed material performance and cost of goods sold (COGS). Improve in-house printers, develop AM workflow software stack, implement novel print parameters, qualify printed material, and support development of aerospace applications.&nbsp;</span></p> <h2>The Role</h2> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Act as a subject matter expert in Laser Powder Bed Fusion to drive high priority improvements to printed material capability, consistency, and total manufacturing cost.&nbsp;</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Independently define project scope, collaboratively align stakeholders, prioritize resources, organize technical data, and effectively communicate status of development activities.&nbsp;</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Characterize, control, and qualify improvements to in-house designed L-PBF equipment to produce high quality material in a repeatable fashion.&nbsp;</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Develop novel print file toolpath generation techniques and process parameters to meet cost and performance needs using internally developed software tools.&nbsp;</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Utilize and improve material qualification framework to fully characterize AM material properties and geometric capability. &nbsp;</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Collaborate closely with design, manufacturing, and quality teams to advise on feasibili