# Principal Additive Manufacturing Engineer

Principal Additive Manufacturing Engineer Los Angeles, CA (in-person) 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 an early principal technical hire and help define how Arcturus turns metal additive manufacturing into a core company capability. This is a high-ownership individual contributor role for someone who wants to solve hard manufacturing problems, mentor others, and help build a first-of-its-kind materials platform from the ground up. Purpose We are seeking a Principal Additive Manufacturing Engineer who can own major AM process development workstreams across LPBF, DED, and related metal processing methods. This person will help develop, troubleshoot, and scale additive manufacturing processes for carbon nanomaterial-infused

- **Id**: 560812
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/arcturus-principal-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**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: yes
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-08-10T00:33:40Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-08-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T13:52:37Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 91
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5207
- **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**: 91

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

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

## Liveness

- **Score**: 11
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.4
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 91
- **Expected fill days**: 31
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

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