Advanced Manufacturing Technician

Boom Supersonic•Centennial, CO

9d•$29 - $43

About The Position

Boom is building Superpower, a first-of-its-kind industrial gas turbine, and Overture, a supersonic airliner - machines that demand some of the most complicated manufacturing processes that can’t be easily outsourced. Our Advanced Process team is vertically integrating those challenging processes: metal and ceramic additive, investment casting, heat treatment, materials testing, and everything in between. We need a generalist technician who can work hand-in-hand with our engineers to turn ideas into real parts, fast. This is not a single-process operator job. As an Advanced Manufacturing Technician you'll work across the AM lab, The Pit (our Overture landing-gear test site turned AM/Casting R&D lab), heat treatment, casting, the M&P lab, coatings and more - wherever the team needs hands to turn a concept into data, hardware, and insights. One week you're running a ceramic build; the next you're pouring a casting, prepping a sample, or setting up a heat-treat cycle. The processes often don't exist yet - you'll help invent them, break them, fix them, and write them down. Finding yet another way not to make the lightbulb is part of the job; getting the real part in hand is the reward.

Requirements

Hands-on fabrication or lab experience across more than one domain - machining/finishing, welding/brazing, additive, casting, composites, heat treat, assembly, or materials-lab work.
A track record of teaching yourself new machines and processes.
The ability to read engineering drawings and CAD, and connect design intent to how a part gets built.
Solid documentation habits and the ability to communicate clearly with engineers about what you tried and saw.
Comfort in a fast-paced, ambiguous R&D environment where the procedure is still being written - and resilience when things fail.
U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

Nice To Haves

Experience in aerospace, defense, medical, or another high-performance environment.
Additive manufacturing experience (metal LPBF, SLA, ceramic, or polymer).
Investment casting, wax/ceramic, or foundry experience.
Heat treatment, furnace operation, or metallography / materials-lab experience.
Experience helping stand up or organize a new lab or shop area.

Responsibilities

Fabricate, build, and finish real parts across many processes - additive (metal, ceramic, polymer), investment casting, heat treatment, and general shop and lab work.
Work directly with Advanced Process engineers to take rough concepts and get hardware in hand fast - then iterate.
Set up and run development trials, capture what happened, and feed results back so the process gets better.
Handle the materials safely and cleanly - powder, wax, ceramic, hot metal, chemicals - with a relentless focus on safety.
Perform routine cleaning, first-line maintenance, and troubleshooting on the equipment you run.
Help build out and organize the labs and shop areas: tooling, consumables, workflow, and the work instructions the team will run on.