Arcturus
Lead Additive Manufacturing Engineer
Los Angeles · Exec
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 91 days ago
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About the role
- This role reports directly to the CEO
Responsibilities
- Own Arcturus' additive manufacturing roadmap across LPBF and DED workflows for infused metal parts and wire
- Define and optimize print processes for copper and aluminum, including parameter development, thermal management, build strategy, and system-level tradeoffs
- Lead design-for-additive-manufacturing decisions, including build orientation, support strategy, scan strategy, and geometry tradeoffs that affect printability and final part performance
- Build qualification plans, process documentation, and acceptance criteria for repeatable development and future scale-up
- Use DOE, data analysis, and structured root-cause methods to optimize process windows and improve yield, repeatability, throughput, and cost
- Partner closely with nanomaterials, characterization, mechanical, and product engineering to connect print process to final conductor performance
- Our technology is designed to significantly improve the performance of electric motors for drones and robotics, heat sinks, and ultimately the entire energy grid.
- This is a ground-floor opportunity to help build something that has never been done before.
- You will work directly with the Founder and CEO to shape the technical direction of our manufacturing platform and help build a category-defining materials company from scratch.
- Relocation support for employees moving from outside the Los Angeles area
Requirements
- 8+ years of hands-on experience in metal additive manufacturing, advanced process development, or closely related manufacturing systems
- Deep expertise in metal AM processes, especially LPBF and ideally DED or laser-based directed energy systems
- Strong understanding of lasers, optics, melt pool physics, heat transfer, solidification, residual stress, and metallurgical process-structure-property relationships
Nice to have
- Experience printing aluminum and/or copper alloys
- Experience with machine-level AM development, including motion systems, powder handling, feedstock delivery, sensing, or controls
- Experience qualifying and scaling AM hardware in a high-performance manufacturing environment
- Familiarity with metal matrix composites or other non-standard AM material systems
- Direct technical ownership over a core manufacturing platform
- The chance to define the playbook for nanomaterial-enhanced metal additive manufacturing
- Visa sponsorship for qualified candidates (H-1B transfers, F-1, or STEM OTP)
Compensation
- Competitive cash compensation and meaningful equity
Benefits
- Competitive cash compensation and meaningful equity
Company info
- We are seeking a Lead Additive Manufacturing Engineer who can own the development of Arcturus' metal printing platform across LPBF and DED-based approaches, starting with aluminum and copper systems infused with carbon nanomaterials like graphene and carbon nanotubes.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Visa sponsorship for qualified candidates (H-1B transfers, F-1, or STEM OTP)
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