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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.\nPurpose\nAs Staff Quality & Reliability Engineer, you will lead the resolution of Divergent’s complex and systemic machine reliability challenges across the additive manufacturing fleet. You will drive issues from escalation through root cause, engineering solution, and validated closure, while ensuring recurring failures are translated into durable technical improvements. \nThis role operates across Machine Development, Product Support Engineering, Service, Production, and engineering SMEs to convert fleet experience into stronger design requirements, engineering standards, validation strategies, and future machine capabilities. The Staff, Quality & Reliability Engineer combines deep technical problem solving with systems thinking, cross-functional leadership, and the ability to drive reliability improvements throughout the product lifecycle. \nThe Role\nOwn Reliability Issue Intake, Triage, & Prioritization \nScreen, triage, group, organize, and support prioritization of engineering escalations based on fleet impact, recurrence, severity, and business need. \nDetermine the appropriate engineering ownership and engage the required SMEs across Hardware, Automation & Controls, Materials & Processes, MDE, Software, and Supplier Quality. \nDrive clarity in clear ownership, priority, status, and next actions for open reliability issues. \nEnsure engineering escalations move quickly from identification to actionable investigation. \nCoordinate & Support Root Cause & Corrective Action \nDrive and support coordination of complex and cross-functional RCCAs for recurring, systemic, and machine-level failures. \nCultivate a problem-solving culture that looks beyond symptoms to identify and understand true root cause. \nChallenge assumptions, identify gaps in evidence, and ensure technical conclusions are supported by data. \nDrive Engineering Issues Through Validated Closure \nCoordinate with SMEs to develop engineering solutions and drive actions through completion. \nProvide guidance and support evidence generation to demonstrate that a corrective action sufficiently resolves the issue. \nEnsure technical debt is closed by ensuring the identification of root cause, the development of engineering solutions, and the validation that solutions correct the issue. \nTrack aging and closure of engineering actions. \nInform Future Product Design \nSupport the generation of engineering standards and requirements generation throughout the product lifecycle informed by reliability learnings \nTechnical Leadership & Engineering Excellence \nServe as a technical leader for reliability problems that span multiple engineering disciplines and organizational boundaries. \nCreate alignment when ownership or technical direction is unclear and drive teams toward decisions based on evidence. \nCommunicate reliability risks, technical findings, tradeoffs, and recommended actions clearly to engineering and business leadership. \nImprove the mechanisms, metrics, and processes used to manage engineering reliability issues and create a sustainable reliability function. \nBasic Qualifications\nAbility to lawfully access information and technology that is subject to US export controls \nBachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, Manufacturing Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related technical field. \n6+ years of experience in machine development, reliability engineering, manufacturing engineering, equipment engineering, or a related discipline. \nDemonstrated experience leading complex root cause investigations and corrective actions on electromechanical or automated equipment. \nStrong understanding of structured problem-solving methodologies such as RCCA, 8D, fault-tree analysis, FMEA, DOE, or equivalent methods. \nExperience working across mechanical, electrical, controls, software, manufacturing, and/or process engineering disciplines. \nAbility to interpret machine and production data, distinguish correlation from root cause, and translate findings into engineering action. \nDemonstrated ability to independently drive technically ambiguous, cross-functional problems through resolution. \nStrong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate technical problems and risk to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. \nPreferred Qualifications\n8+ years of experience developing, sustaining, or improving complex industrial equipment or automated manufacturing systems. \nExperience with high-complexity capital equipment, laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing, industrial automation, robotics, additive manufacturing, semiconductor equipment, aerospace manufacturing, or similar systems. \nExperience owning reliability across a fleet of machines rather than resolving issues on a single piece of equipment. \nExperience using fleet health, downtime, utilization, failure-rate, or maintenance data to prioritize engineering work. \nExperience defining reliability requirements, validation criteria, or qualification strategies for new machine designs and engineering changes. \nDemonstrated technical leadership at the Staff level, including influencing teams and driving decisions without direct authority. \nExperience establishing or scaling reliability engineering processes, issue-management systems, engineering standards, or technical-debt reduction mechanisms. \nWork Environment\nOnsite\nPay Range\n$148,430—$204,090 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. 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