Staff Manufacturing 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 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

Advanced engineering and manufacturing organization developing integrated production solutions for demanding automotive, aerospace, and defense applications.

What you will do

• Lead intake, triage, prioritization, ownership, and tracking of reliability escalations across an additive manufacturing machine fleet.
• Coordinate complex root cause and corrective action investigations across hardware, automation and controls, materials and processes, software, manufacturing, and supplier quality teams.
• Drive engineering issues from investigation through corrective action, evidence generation, validation, and closure.
• Use fleet health, downtime, utilization, failure-rate, maintenance, machine, and production data to prioritize reliability work.
• Translate reliability learnings into engineering requirements, standards, validation strategies, and future machine capabilities.
• Improve reliability metrics, issue-management mechanisms, engineering processes, and technical-debt reduction practices.

Requirements

• US export-control eligibility and lawful access to controlled information and technology.
• 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.
• Ability to interpret machine and production data, work across engineering disciplines, and independently resolve technically ambiguous problems.

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 machine fleet 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 or issue-management systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Paid vacation, sick time, company holidays, and a year-end shutdown.
• Paid parental leave.
• HMO and Premium PPO health plans, company-sponsored life insurance, and short- and long-term disability coverage.
• Learning and development reimbursement opportunities.
• Equity plan and discretionary results-based incentive bonus opportunities.
• Collaborative, high-performing, mission-driven environment focused on modernizing manufacturing and reducing environmental impact.