Materials & Manufacturing Process Engineer (Early Career, Exceptional Talent)
About The Position
This job is demanding and rewarding. This job isn't for everyone. You're the right person if you've done something extraordinary early – built and characterized real hardware, led a competition team (Formula SAE, Baja, Rocketry) focusing on advanced materials, or done M&P lab work in an internship that most engineers don't see for years. You love building and want to work long, smart, and hard to create things that have real impact. You want ownership, not guidance. You get more energized when a problem gets harder, not less. You're uncomfortable waiting for someone else to find the answer. The metallurgy lab, the cleanroom, and the shop floor sound more interesting to you than a conference room. Engineers who want to spend their first year doing work that actually matters should apply.
Requirements
- A degree in Materials Science & Engineering, Metallurgy, Mechanical, Aerospace, or Chemical Engineering – or equivalent hands-on hardware experience.
- At least one internship or co-op where you worked with real-world engineering materials, testing, or process characterization.
- Hands-on lab or shop experience – time operating mechanical test frames, metallographic sample prep equipment, heat-treat furnaces, or additive manufacturing machines. This is required, not a nice-to-have.
- A fundamental understanding of materials behavior – from microstructural strengthening and fatigue failure mechanisms to corrosion resistance and high-temperature oxidation.
- A track record of finishing hard things, inside school and outside of it.
- 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.
- Eligible to access export-controlled information and technology as required by applicable U.S. export control laws.
Responsibilities
- Own a defined piece of the Materials Process domain – material qualification, investment casing, advanced joining methods, surface coatings, or non-destructive testing – with real accountability for the outcome.
- Interact not only across disciplines (design, propulsion and manufacturing) but also span our physical spaces from office to lab to shop floor – move from clean sheet to high-performance hardware in hand.
- Characterize and validate extreme-environment materials designed to withstand the brutal mechanical and thermal stresses of gas turbines and high-Mach flight programs – up to and including allowable programs.
- Perform rapid failure analysis of testing anomalies using state-of-the-art internal labs, including SEM, to find root-cause and iterate solutions fast via disciplined and documented methodologies.
- Plan and execute test campaigns; everything from mechanical testing of superalloys for LCF/HCF and creep to DOEs for metallic additive to development testing of novel investment casting technologies.
- Help scope, procure, install, and commission new equipment - then use it and train others on it.
Benefits
- long-term incentives/equity
- flexible PTO policy
- on-site meals
- gym access
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
