# Lead Additive Manufacturing Engineer

About Arcturus Arcturus is creating a new wire technology stack that uses carbon nanomaterials to overcome the materials limitations of metals where performance breaks down, at real operating temperatures. Our technology is designed to significantly improve the performance of electric motors for drones and robotics, heat sinks, and ultimately the entire energy grid. Why you should join us This is a ground-floor opportunity to help build something that has never been done before. You would join as a founding engineer and become Arcturus’ first additive manufacturing engineer, with the chance to define the company’s metal printing strategy from the beginning. 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. Purpose 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. This person should be deeply fluent in how metal additive systems actually work

- **Id**: 560819
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/arcturus-lead-additive-manufacturing-engineer>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Los Angeles, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: yes
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-04-22T03:49:40Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-04-22
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T18:50:53Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 201
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4653
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: yes
- **Industries**: Advanced Materials, Materials Science & Nanotechnology

## Company

- **Id**: 456162
- **Name**: Arcturus
- **Domain**: arcturus.io
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/arcturus-3>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 75
- **Open postings**: 6
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 109000
- **Max usd**: 221000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 1961

## Trust

- **Level**: stale
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale
- **Days open**: 201

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-09T04:24:10Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 7
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.246
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 201
- **Expected fill days**: 31
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

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