Staff Quality & Reliability Engineer (Additive Manufacturing)

Location: Onsite in Torrance, California, United States

Salary: $148,430–$204,090 USD annually

Company

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

What you will do

• Own intake, triage, prioritization, and assignment 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, evidence generation, validation, and closure of technical debt and aging engineering actions.
• Use fleet health, production, downtime, utilization, failure-rate, and maintenance data to guide reliability improvements.
• Translate reliability learnings into engineering standards, product 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

• Ability to lawfully access information and technology subject to US export controls.
• 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, distinguish correlation from root cause, and independently drive ambiguous cross-functional problems to resolution.

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 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 reliability engineering processes.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive compensation package with equity and discretionary results-based incentive opportunities.
• Paid vacation, sick time, company holidays, year-end shutdown, and paid parental leave.
• HMO and Premium PPO health plans, company-sponsored life insurance, and short- and long-term disability coverage.
• Reimbursement for learning and development initiatives.
• Collaborative, high-performing, mission-driven environment focused on innovation and reducing manufacturing’s environmental footprint.