Staff Equipment Reliability Engineer (Additive Manufacturing)

Location: Onsite in Torrance, California, United States. Candidates must be able to lawfully access information and technology subject to US export controls and must be eligible to work in the United States.

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

Company

Divergent develops integrated engineering and manufacturing solutions for complex systems serving automotive, aerospace, and defense customers.

What you will do

• Lead intake, triage, prioritization, ownership, and tracking of complex reliability issues across the additive manufacturing machine fleet.
• Coordinate cross-functional root-cause and corrective-action investigations involving hardware, automation and controls, materials and processes, software, manufacturing, and supplier quality.
• Drive engineering issues from investigation through solution development, evidence generation, validation, and closure.
• Use fleet health, downtime, utilization, failure-rate, and maintenance data to prioritize engineering work and identify systemic problems.
• Translate reliability learnings into engineering requirements, standards, validation strategies, and future machine capabilities.
• Provide technical leadership, clarify ownership, communicate risks and tradeoffs, and improve reliability-management mechanisms and metrics.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, electrical, mechatronics, manufacturing, systems engineering, or a related technical field.
• 6+ years of experience in machine development, reliability engineering, manufacturing engineering, equipment engineering, or a related discipline.
• Experience leading root-cause investigations and corrective actions for electromechanical or automated equipment.
• Strong understanding of RCCA, 8D, fault-tree analysis, FMEA, DOE, or equivalent structured problem-solving methods.
• Experience working across mechanical, electrical, controls, software, manufacturing, or process engineering disciplines.
• Ability to interpret machine and production data, resolve technically ambiguous cross-functional problems, and communicate findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Nice to have

• 8+ years of experience with 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 fleet of machines and defining reliability requirements, validation criteria, or qualification strategies.
• Staff-level technical leadership and experience scaling reliability processes, issue-management systems, engineering standards, or technical-debt reduction mechanisms.

Culture & Benefits

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