Materials Engineer (New Grad December 2026)
Core
Develop and optimize materials testing infrastructure and best practices for advanced metal 3D printing, including operating equipment to measure material properties and analyzing data to improve upstream printing processes.
Role type
New Grad Materials Engineer (Additive Manufacturing)
Builds
M&P (Materials & Process) infrastructure, strategy, and best practices for metal 3D printing
Domain
Advanced manufacturing / Metal additive manufacturing
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
metals characterization, sample preparation (cutting, grinding, polishing, acid etching), optical microscopy, materials engineering fundamentals, statistical data analysis, data interpretation
Preferred skills
metal additive manufacturing, laser powder bed fusion (LPBF), complex materials equipment operation (SEM, Instron), large dataset processing
Technologies
R, JMP, Minitab
Responsibilities
Operate equipment to measure material properties such as tensile strength, surface roughness, and microstructure; Generate and track quality metrics of printed customer parts; Organize, analyze, and interpret data to present key findings; Work with process development team to tie materials findings into improvement of upstream printing processes; Assist in optimizing processes and procedures for measuring and quantifying material quality; Support automation efforts for M&P procedures
Seniority
New Grad, entry-level IC