The board
- Where
- Los Angeles, CA (On-site)
- Posted
- Aug 18
ADDITIVE ENGINEER (NEW GRAD SUMMER 2027)
Freeform builds AI-native manufacturing systems that unify software, hardware, and physics to produce industrial-scale parts at the speed of human ideation. By treating manufacturing as a single integrated system, we unlock a new era of innovation where complex hardware is designed, built, and scaled without limits.
As an Additive Engineer at Freeform, you will play a critical role in advancing our metal 3D printing technology, including machine functionality, part quality analysis, print file preparation and generation, and DFAM recommendations for some of the world's largest manufacturers. You will own projects from cradle to grave as a responsible engineer, taking customer designs from concept through printing, testing, and delivery.
What you'd do
- Understand printing system capabilities and roadmap, and work with internal engineering teams (mechanical, electrical, software) to implement solutions that further automate the printing process for high volume production
- Drive all stages of print production development, including design for additive manufacturing (DFAM) feedback, file preparation, printing, post processing, and quality control
- Analyze in situ data and post print part quality to drive continuous improvement
- Use first principles thinking to understand problems, define test methods, evaluate solutions, iterate, and provide technical recommendations to internal and external stakeholders
- Document application requirements and objectives, statements of work, standard operating procedures, next steps, and action items to align all internal and external team members
- Interface with external customers to communicate Freeform's technical capabilities; work with customers on improving Design for Additive Manufacturing (DFAM)
- Contribute to Freeform's internal technology development with feedback from internal and external stakeholders via detailed design and systems level improvements
What they want
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical or aerospace engineering from an ABET accredited university or college
- Hands on design experience from internships or engineering clubs such as FSAE, Baja SAE, solar car, rocket club, robotics club, or similar
- Full life cycle hardware design experience from hand calcs to CAD to fabrication and testing
- Well versed in mechanical engineering fundamentals and comfortable taking a first principles approach to solving problems