Applications Engineer, Additive Manufacturing

We are seeking a highly skilled Applications Engineer with deep expertise in additive manufacturing to join our growing team. In this customer-facing role, you will serve as a technical authority for our LPBF solutions — guiding customers through design, process development, and workflow automation while managing programs independently from early engagement through qualification and production.

Beyond customer work, you will play a key internal role in building and refining automation tools that improve the efficiency, consistency, and scalability of our additive manufacturing workflows..

- Serve as the primary technical point of contact for customers; capturing requirements, assessing feasibility, and translating program needs into actionable AM manufacturing plans.

- Lead DfAM efforts including build orientation, support strategy, topology optimization, lattice design, distortion risk, and post-processing-aware design decisions.

- Perform AM CAM work: build file development, support generation, nesting, process parameter selection, and print plan optimization for PBF-LB systems.

- Design and develop internal automation tools that streamline DfAM and CAM workflows; reducing manual effort, enforcing best practices, and scaling repeatability across programs; additionally deploy these tools in direct support of customer programs.

- Apply AM simulation tools; thermal, distortion, residual stress, and structural validation; to inform design decisions and de-risk builds.

- Support process development including parameter selection, DOE, process control, and PBF-LB technology maturation with internal teams.

- Coordinate across post-processing (heat treat, HIP, machining, support removal, finishing) to ensure end-to-end manufacturability.

- Assist with qualification planning, validation builds, acceptance criteria, and data packages for customer and aerospace program release.

- Manage assigned projects independently; defining scope, setting milestones, and delivering results with minimal oversight.

- Collaborate cross-functionally with sales, engineering, quality, and operations to translate customer requirements into effective AM solutions.

- Document processes, build records, lessons learned, and best practices to support continuous improvement and knowledge sharing.

- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Materials, Aerospace, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience).

- 8+ years of experience in metal additive manufacturing applications engineering, process engineering, or manufacturing engineering, including experience in customer-facing technical roles.

- 2+ years of people leadership experience, including managing or leading technical teams.

- Demonstrated hands-on experience with metal additive manufacturing processes (e.g., laser powder bed fusion), including parameter development, build planning, powder handling, post-processing integration, and production ramp.

- Experience supporting parts and processes from prototype through qualification and full-rate production, including documentation, inspection strategy, process control, and readiness criteria.

- Experience working within aerospace, defense, or other regulated manufacturing environments with structured qualification and customer approval processes.

- Experience developing standardized application playbooks, parameter libraries, or design guidelines that scale across programs or sites.

- Demonstrated experience presenting technical strategies and performance outcomes to customer engineering teams and executive stakeholders.

For this role, the target salary range is $150,000 - $220,000 (actual range may vary based on experience).