Senior Engineer, Additive Manufacturing

Beehive Industries is dedicated to Powering American Defense by revolutionizing the design, development, and delivery of jet propulsion systems to support the warfighter. Through the integration of additive manufacturing, the company aims to meet the growing and urgent needs for unmanned aerial defense by dramatically improving a jet engine’s speed to market, fuel efficiency, and cost.  

Founded in 2020, the company is headquartered in Englewood, Colorado, with additional facilities in Knoxville, Tennessee, Loveland Ohio, and Mount Vernon, Ohio. Beehive is committed to grow and advance the defense industrial base while manufacturing exclusively in the USA. This role will be located at our Englewood, Colorado facility.

Job Description

Beehive Industries is dedicated to Powering American Defense by revolutionizing the design, development, and delivery of jet propulsion systems to support the warfighter. Through the integration of additive manufacturing, the company aims to meet the growing and urgent needs for unmanned aerial defense by dramatically improving a jet engine’s speed to market, fuel efficiency, and cost.  

Founded in 2020, the company is headquartered in Englewood, Colorado, with additional facilities in Knoxville, Tennessee, Loveland Ohio, and Mount Vernon, Ohio. Beehive is committed to grow and advance the defense industrial base while manufacturing exclusively in the USA. This role will be located at our Knoxville, TN facility.

Role Overview:

The Senior Additive Manufacturing Engineer is a key part of a team involved in the development and optimization of additive parts and components for the Aerospace and Defense industries. This role specifically focuses on leading process development from build preparation and printing through post-processing, including heat treatment, machining, and quality assurance for new additive applications.

Responsibilities:

• Act as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on process development for metal AM technologies, industry best practices, and best process solutions to support our AM requirements. 
• Develop and optimize the entire suite of AM process for metal printer recipes, post machining, heat treatments, surface finishes and NDT. 
• Enjoy working in a fast-paced environment and be comfortable working through complex and collaborative problem solving.
• Work with design engineers on DFAM for the adoption and transition of printing modalities. 
• Support and drive learning from CAD data through simulation, design compensation, optimization, support generation, build prep, and production guidelines and documentation. 
• Provide feedback to design engineers and production floor to continuously improve the AM part production process.
• Perform analysis, characterization, simulation, test, and verification of AM hardware as well as AM materials properties and analyze results from downstream fabrication and testing operations to inform process improvements. 
• Generate and release additive process specifications to control product quality and establish build qualification and product acceptance criteria. 
• Work closely with stakeholders in achieving and maintaining aerospace and defense driven AM process and facility qualifications and certifications. 
• Advise on materials, machines, and process parameters to build parts that meet specifications. 
• Actively and closely work with quality engineers to identify and qualify vendors and suppliers for materials and post process services.  
• Travel approximately 10% across Beehive’s manufacturing sites to manage the technology development programs.  

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Materials Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related technical discipline with typically a minimum of 5 years of related experience or a master’s with 3 years of related experience. 
• Demonstrated expertise in additive manufacturing processes development with the focus on L-PBF process. 
• Hands-on in operation of