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Sr Manager, Sustaining Process Engineering

Fremont, CA💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-15 → 2026-09-26

Core

Leads the team responsible for qualifying, monitoring, and continuously improving the fleet of novel laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) metal 3D printers in production.

Role type

Senior Manager, Sustaining Process Engineering

Builds

Metal additive manufacturing printer fleet qualification, health monitoring, and production support

Domain

Metal additive manufacturing / Laser powder bed fusion

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

Team leadership and hiring, Process engineering, Metrology management, Experimental design, Statistical analysis, Cross-functional collaboration, SOP development, Data-driven decision making

Preferred skills

Scaling sustaining engineering functions, JMP, Python, JSL, CAD (SolidWorks)

Technologies

Optical microscopy, 3D profilometers, X-ray inspection, EDM, JMP, Python, JSL, SolidWorks

Responsibilities

Lead, hire, mentor, and develop a team of Process Engineers & Technicians; Own planning and prioritization for sustaining process engineering; Set and enforce standards for experimental design and statistical rigor; Review and approve qualification reports and root-cause investigations; Manage the metrology lab and audit procedures; Establish and maintain SOPs and analysis guides; Monitor team and machine-level KPVs to pre-emptive flag hardware degradation; Drive continuous improvement initiatives to decrease requalification time.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with management responsibilities

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