Staff Systems Reliability Engineer (Additive Manufacturing)

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

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

Company

Divergent designs, manufactures, and assembles advanced systems through an integrated engineering and manufacturing platform for 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 for recurring, systemic, and machine-level failures.
• Drive engineering solutions through evidence generation, validation, technical-debt reduction, and confirmed closure.
• Use fleet health, downtime, utilization, failure-rate, maintenance, and production data to guide engineering priorities.
• Translate reliability learnings into engineering standards, requirements, validation strategies, and future machine capabilities.
• Provide technical leadership across hardware, automation and controls, materials and processes, manufacturing, software, and supplier quality teams.

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 knowledge of RCCA, 8D, fault-tree analysis, FMEA, DOE, or equivalent structured problem-solving methods.
• Experience working across mechanical, electrical, controls, software, manufacturing, and process engineering disciplines.
• Ability to interpret machine and production data, distinguish correlation from root cause, and drive ambiguous technical problems through resolution.

Nice to have

• 8+ years of experience developing, sustaining, or improving complex industrial equipment or automated manufacturing systems.
• Experience with laser powder bed fusion, additive manufacturing, industrial automation, robotics, semiconductor equipment, aerospace manufacturing, or other high-complexity capital equipment.
• Experience managing reliability across a fleet of machines and using fleet performance 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, issue-management systems, or technical-debt reduction mechanisms.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, dynamic, and high-performing environment focused on advanced manufacturing and industrial innovation.
• Paid vacation, sick time, company holidays, and a year-end shutdown.
• Paid parental leave and comprehensive HMO or Premium PPO health coverage.
• Company-sponsored life insurance and short- and long-term disability coverage.
• Equity plan, discretionary results-based incentive opportunities, and learning and development reimbursement.