The board
- Where
- Los Angeles, CA (On-site)
- Posted
- Aug 19
MATERIALS ENGINEER (NEW GRAD SUMMER 2027)
Freeform builds AI-native manufacturing systems that unify software, hardware, and physics to produce industrial-scale parts at the speed of human ideation. By treating manufacturing as a single integrated system, we unlock a new era of innovation where complex hardware is designed, built, and scaled without limits.
As a Materials Engineer at Freeform, you will support the company's M&P infrastructure, strategy, and best practices for our advanced metal 3D printing technology. You will work alongside senior engineers to conduct hands on sample testing, analyze findings, and contribute to strategic process improvements.
What you'd do
- Support the development of Freeform's M&P best practices and materials testing infrastructure
- Operate equipment to measure material properties such as tensile strength, surface roughness, and microstructure
- Generate and track quality metrics of printed customer parts such as dimensional accuracy, defect distribution, and surface roughness
- Organize, analyze, and interpret data and present key findings
- Work with the process development team to tie key materials findings into improvement of upstream printing processes, including training our advanced machine learning models
- Assist in optimizing processes and procedures for measuring and quantifying material quality
- Support automation efforts for M&P procedures to take human out of the loop
What they want
- Bachelor's degree in Materials Science, Materials Engineering, Metallurgy, or Mechanical Engineering from an ABET accredited university or college
- Hands on lab or coursework experience with metals characterization, processing, or sample preparation techniques such as cutting, grinding, polishing, acid etching, and optical microscopy
- Well versed in materials engineering fundamentals and comfortable taking a first principles approach to solving problems