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Every day, our teams design, manufacture, and assemble advanced systems for some of the world’s most demanding industries. Our integrated engineering and manufacturing platform transforms complex designs into production-ready solutions, helping customers move faster, build smarter, and deliver critical systems when they matter most. Divergent is a qualified Tier 1 supplier to global automotive OEMs and supports leading U.S. aerospace and defense companies. \nJoin us and help push the boundaries of what can be built.\nThe Role\nAs Senior Equipment Engineer-Mechanical, you will be a subject matter expert on the mechanical systems of production L-PBF equipment, including motion, recoating, and build platform systems, inert gas flow and filtration, cooling and thermal management, and powder handling. You will own technical issues and projects on your assigned equipment, set the approach and standards for recurring technical challenges, and work across Equipment Engineering, Service, Operations, Quality, and Development Engineering. You will mentor technicians and peers. The Equipment Engineering team focuses on the three areas below, and you will contribute to all of them.\n Support Service and Operations\nImprove existing work instructions and write new ones where gaps exist, with the goal of Service team autonomy for most day-to-day issues.\nAct as a technical resource for operators and Service, including formally as part of the Service Level Agreement (SLA). This includes support for novel issues that existing procedures do not cover.\nSupport preventative maintenance improvements based on observed equipment performance.\nMentor technicians and operators so that knowledge from difficult investigations moves out of individuals and into the system.\n Own Equipment Reliability and Resolve Fleet Problems\nTake technical ownership of assigned equipment after qualification, and track performance against safety, quality, delivery, and cost baselines.\nTroubleshoot mechanical issues on L-PBF equipment, such as recoater and build platform performance, motion and alignment, wear and tolerance stack-up, gas flow and filtration, cooling, and powder handling, and work with electrical and controls engineers when a failure crosses those boundaries.\nMine existing datasets to discover issues, in particular machine process data and downstream printed part data (non-conformances, witness coupons), and connect the two to find causes that neither dataset shows alone.\nContribute to trend and reliability data across the fleet, and use it to prioritize your work.\nInitiate and complete RCCAs end to end: identify the issue, set short-term containment, and drive long-term corrective action. Own investigations on your equipment and in your domain, and support cross-functional investigations led by others.\nEngage with Development Engineering: provide regular input on machine reliability and recommend targeted fixes with input from Operations and Service. Prioritized requests to the Development organization are an output of the team, not of one person, and you will contribute your domain expertise to the team's priority list.\nDrive cost reduction through equipment optimization.\nChange and Configuration Management\nHelp determine when and where specific changes to assets are made, and apply the team's guidance on what does and does not need formal change control.\nSupport improvements to both the change approval process and the configuration control process.\nDocument lessons learned so they can be standardized across the fleet and future factories.\nAdditional Responsibilities\nSet the technical approach for assigned projects, and give clear, data-backed recommendations to management on tradeoffs.\nSupport installation, commissioning, FAT/SAT, qualification, and production readiness for new equipment and factory expansion.\nSupport quality compliance (AS9100, AMS, PPAP) and the analysis of equipment-related quality issues.\nProvide input on Design for Manufacturability (DFM) and Design for Reliability (DFR) for next-generation machines.\nBasic Qualifications\nAbility to lawfully access information and technology that is subject to US export controls.\nBachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Mechatronics, or a related discipline.\n6+ years of experience in manufacturing engineering, equipment engineering, reliability engineering, or advanced production environments.\nExperience owning the sustaining performance of production equipment and supporting it through launch or ramp.\nStrong mechanical troubleshooting skill on production equipment (for example motion, fluid, gas, or thermal systems), with working knowledge of electrical and controls systems sufficient to troubleshoot alongside electrical and controls engineers.\nDemonstrated ability to lead root cause investigations using structured methodologies (e.g., RCCA, 5 Whys, Fishbone, Fault Tree) on recurring or ambiguous problems, and to verify that corrective actions held.\nStrong analytical and data-driven decision-making skills, including finding problems in large datasets and not only responding to reported failures.\nAbility to work and influence across engineering, operations, quality, maintenance, and service teams without direct authority, and to communicate clearly with people at very different levels of technical depth.\nExperience mentoring or training other engineers or technicians.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience with Laser Powder Bed Fusion (L-PBF) or other metal additive manufacturing technologies.\nExperience with mechanical subsystems common to L-PBF and similar equipment, such as recoating or powder handling, precision motion and alignment, inert gas flow and filtration, chillers and thermal management, or vacuum and pressure systems.\nExperience with GD&T, tolerance analysis, and CAD (for example SolidWorks), and with reading mechanical drawings and P&IDs.\nExperience contributing to a fleet-level reliability, trending, or performance program (for example OEE, MTBF/MTTR, or failure-mode tracking) across multiple machines or sites.\nExperience writing or standardizing work instructions that enabled a Service or Operations team to work more independently.\nExperience with a configuration management or engineering change process.\nExperience working with machine sensor data or manufacturing analytics (for example SQL, Python, or similar tools).\nExperience with controls systems, PLCs, industrial automation, or machine integration.\nExperience supporting capital equipment installation, commissioning, or factory expansion.\nKnowledge of AS9100, AMS, PPAP, APQP, or equivalent quality systems.\nCompensation\nAt Divergent, our pay range is based on the level of the job. For this role, we will consider candidates at levels E04 - E05 as evaluated through our interview process. \nEngineer II / E04: $111,300 - $153,040\nSr. Engineer / E05: $128,520 - $176,720\nStaff Engineer / E06: 148,430 - 204,090\nPay Range\n$111,300—$176,720 USD\nWhat We Offer:\nHolistic Compensation Package: Enjoy a world-class compensation package that includes a competitive salary, equity plan, and discretionary results-based incentive bonus opportunities, ensuring you're truly valued for your contributions.\nWellness and Time Off: Embrace a healthy lifestyle with paid vacation, sick time, and company holidays, including a year-end shutdown to recharge. We support growing families with paid parental leave, recognizing the importance of bonding time.\nComprehensive Health and Wellness: Prioritize your well-being with our comprehensive health and wellness benefits, offering both HMO and Premium PPO options. Additionally, benefit from company-sponsored life insurance and short and long-term disability coverage for peace of mind.\nInvestment in Growth: We're committed to your professional development. Take advantage of reimbursement opportunities for learning and development initiatives, empowering you to continuously expand your skill set and reach peak performance.\nCollaborative and High-Performing Environment: Join our collaborative, dynamic, and high-performing team within a fast-paced, mission-driven company. Together, we're disrupting the traditional manufacturing industry, fostering innovation, and integrating people and technology to reduce our footprint. \nEqual Employment Opportunity\nDivergent is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or veteran status, or any other applicable state or federal protected characteristic. Divergent provides affirmative action in employment for qualified Individuals with Disabilities and Protected Veterans in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act.\nEEO Poster \nIn order to adjust to changes in our business, it may become necessary to add, remove or modify certain duties and responsibilities, or to reassign you to another job position. From time to time you may be asked to work on special projects or to assist with other work. Your cooperation and assistance in performing such additional work is expected. \n\nE-Verify: Right to Work\nOur company participates in E-Verify. E-Verify is a program that electronically confirms a candidate’s eligibility to work in the United States after completing the Employment Eligibility Verification (Form I-9). The information provided on the Form I-9 is compared to the records contained in the Social Security Administration and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) databases. 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