Mechanical Engineer II (Additive Manufacturing)

Location: On-site in Torrance, California, United States, across office, laboratory, prototype-build, and manufacturing-floor environments. Occasional travel and schedule flexibility may be required during critical design, integration, testing, or commissioning activities.

Salary: $111,300–$204,090 USD annually. Compensation may be evaluated across Engineer II, Senior Engineer, and Staff Engineer levels.

Company

Divergent develops integrated engineering and manufacturing systems for demanding automotive, aerospace, and defense applications, including its internally developed Monolith One laser powder bed fusion platform.

What you will do

• Own mechanical components and subsystems from concept and detailed design through prototyping, validation, release, and integration.
• Create CAD models, engineering drawings, GD&T, tolerance analyses, engineering calculations, component selections, and bills of material.
• Apply mechanical engineering principles across structures, mechanisms, precision motion, fluids, thermal systems, sealing, enclosures, and machine integration.
• Evaluate tradeoffs involving performance, reliability, safety, manufacturability, serviceability, cost, and schedule.
• Perform engineering analysis, prototyping, assembly, testing, troubleshooting, root-cause investigations, and design iteration.
• Collaborate with engineering, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, suppliers, and other stakeholders while maintaining documentation and executing engineering changes.

Requirements

• Ability to lawfully access information and technology subject to US export controls and eligibility to work in the United States.
• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related engineering discipline.
• Experience designing mechanical components or subsystems through detailed design, build, testing, and release.
• Proficiency in 3D CAD, engineering drawings, GD&T, tolerance analysis, component selection, and design for manufacturability and assembly.
• Strong mechanical engineering fundamentals and the ability to apply them to practical design problems.
• Ability to independently solve defined engineering problems, evaluate alternatives, and exercise sound technical judgment within established requirements and constraints.
• Hands-on experience developing prototypes and assembling, testing, or troubleshooting mechanical equipment.
• Ability to collaborate cross-functionally, communicate technical reasoning, own deliverables, manage multiple technical tasks, identify risks, and seek guidance on unfamiliar or complex problems.
• Ability to work hands-on around industrial equipment and occasionally lift or carry up to 25 lb.

Nice to have

• Experience with Siemens NX and Teamcenter.
• Experience with laser powder bed fusion, additive manufacturing, industrial automation, robotics, or other complex capital equipment.
• Experience designing precision mechanisms, motion systems, fluid systems, thermal systems, vacuum systems, structural assemblies, or machine enclosures.
• Experience supporting subsystem development through prototype, verification, productionization, or commissioning.
• Familiarity with engineering change control, configuration management, supplier collaboration, contract manufacturing, or production hardware release.

Culture & Benefits

• Regular full-time employment with salary, equity plan, 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.
• Learning and development reimbursement opportunities.
• Collaborative, high-performing, mission-driven environment focused on innovation and reducing manufacturing’s footprint.
• Work includes moving machinery, elevated noise, metal powders, inert gas systems, lasers, and high-power electrical equipment; required PPE and EHS controls apply.