Staff Machine Reliability Engineer (Additive Manufacturing)

Location: Onsite in Torrance, California, United States. The role requires lawful access to information and technology subject to US export controls.

Salary: $148,430–$204,090 USD per year, plus equity and discretionary incentive bonus opportunities.

Company

Divergent develops integrated engineering and manufacturing solutions for demanding automotive, aerospace, and defense applications.

What you will do

• Own intake, triage, prioritization, ownership, and status tracking for machine reliability escalations across the additive manufacturing fleet.
• Coordinate complex, cross-functional root-cause investigations and corrective actions for recurring, systemic, and machine-level failures.
• Guide engineering solutions through evidence-based validation, technical-debt reduction, and confirmed issue closure.
• Use fleet health, downtime, utilization, failure-rate, maintenance, and production data to prioritize reliability work.
• Translate reliability learnings into engineering requirements, standards, validation strategies, and future machine capabilities.
• Provide technical leadership across hardware, automation and controls, materials and processes, software, manufacturing, and supplier quality teams.

Requirements

• Onsite work in Torrance, California, United States.
• Ability to lawfully access US export-controlled information and technology.
• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, electrical, mechatronics, manufacturing, systems engineering, or a related technical field.
• At least 6 years of experience in machine development, reliability, manufacturing, equipment engineering, or a related discipline.
• Experience leading root-cause investigations and corrective actions for electromechanical or automated equipment.
• Experience with structured problem-solving methods such as RCCA, 8D, fault-tree analysis, FMEA, or DOE, plus strong cross-functional communication skills.

Nice to have

• 8+ years improving complex industrial equipment or automated manufacturing systems.
• Experience with laser powder bed fusion, additive manufacturing, industrial automation, robotics, semiconductor equipment, aerospace manufacturing, or similar systems.
• Experience owning reliability across a machine fleet and using fleet health or maintenance data to prioritize engineering work.
• Experience defining reliability requirements, validation criteria, qualification strategies, or engineering standards.
• Staff-level technical leadership and experience scaling reliability processes or issue-management systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Paid vacation, sick time, company holidays, and a year-end shutdown.
• Paid parental leave and comprehensive health coverage with HMO and Premium PPO options.
• Company-sponsored life insurance and short- and long-term disability coverage.
• Learning and development reimbursement opportunities.
• Collaborative, high-performing, mission-driven environment focused on advancing manufacturing technology and reducing environmental footprint.