Qualification Engineer (Additive Manufacturing)

Location: On-site in Los Angeles, California, with the role based in Torrance and travel to deployment sites including Red River Army Depot in Texas

Salary: $150,000–$220,000 per year, plus equity

Company

hirify.global builds autonomous factories combining AI, advanced software, robotics, and full-stack manufacturing for aerospace and defense production.

What you will do

• Author, execute, and close IQ and OQ protocols for metal powder bed fusion, polymer platforms, and supporting equipment.
• Commission additive manufacturing equipment and execute factory and site acceptance testing with OEM field engineers.
• Qualify software, firmware, data-management, and machine-control toolchains, maintaining version and configuration control.
• Design capability, equivalence, repeatability, Cpk, metrology, gauge R&R, and measurement system studies.
• Build qualification data packages for Army, Navy, aerospace, DLA, NIAR/NCAMP, Nadcap, and prime customer audits.
• Lead corrective action for qualification failures and coordinate qualification activities across engineering, quality, software, materials, and operations.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience qualifying additive manufacturing equipment and supporting production release.
• Experience with metal and polymer additive manufacturing platforms, software and firmware qualification, and engineering change impact assessment.
• Experience with as-built additive surface measurement, scan-to-CAD comparison, CMMs, structured light or laser scanning, dimensional CT, or surface texture measurement.
• Knowledge of qualification, audit, and quality standards including AMS7032, ISO/ASTM 52920, ISO/ASTM 52930, ISO 10360, Nadcap AC7110/14, or AS9100.
• Experience with capability studies, statistical analysis, calibration traceability, gauge R&R, MSA, and structured problem-solving methods such as 8D and 5 Whys.
• Must meet U.S. Government export-control eligibility requirements under ITAR, including U.S. citizenship or nationality, lawful permanent residence, protected-individual status, or eligibility to obtain the required authorizations.

Nice to have

• Experience with defense depots, government-owned facilities, or aerospace and defense production environments.
• Familiarity with Army/TACOM or DLA source approval, first article testing, and TDP development under MIL-STD-31000.
• Experience establishing additive manufacturing qualification systems at new sites.
• Experience supporting performance qualification alongside materials, process, or application engineering teams.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans.
• 401(k) and equity participation.
• Flexible vacation policy.
• Relocation support may be provided in certain situations based on business need.
• Work supporting American manufacturing, aerospace, and defense production.

Hiring process

• Recruiting processes may use AI-assisted tools for organizing data, interview note-taking, transcription, and feedback coordination.
• Human reviewers perform all candidate evaluations and hiring decisions; candidates are notified before any interview recording and may opt out.