{"id":1207772,"url":"https://alion.io/job/rangeview-rd-process-development-engineer","title":"R&D Process Development Engineer","company":{"id":688097,"name":"Rangeview","domain":"rangeview.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/rangeview","size_band":"11-50","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":null},"role":"Industrial Engineering","role_family":"Industrial Engineering","seniority":"middle","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["El Segundo, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":108000,"max":154000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":154000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":3,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-24T22:22:05Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-25","last_verified_at":"2026-09-29T00:42:32Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":4,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":4},"description":"Process Development Engineer (R&D)\nCompensation: $108,000-$154,000 annually\nEquity: Included\nLocation: El Segundo, CA\nWork Policy: Onsite\nLevel: L1-L2 and L3\nHiring Count: 2 - one L1-L2 and one L3\nCore KPIs: Process repeatability, yield, capability, cycle time, commercial practicality, and successful transfer to Production.\nWho we are\nRangeview is on a mission to build the foundry system that reindustrializes America. We exist to break the legacy manufacturing trap by reinventing critical production for the twenty-first century. Through advanced software, deep automation, breakthroughs in materials science, and modern financing strategies, Rangeview rewrites both the cost curve and the power structure of making metal parts.\nWhat’s in it for you\nYou will work within Rangeview’s R&D team as new technologies move from successful technical demonstrations toward manufacturing readiness. You will influence technologies while they are still evolving, own the maturation of assigned manufacturing processes, and help transfer those processes into the broader production environment.\nWhat you’ll do\nAs a Process Development Engineer, you will turn promising technologies into robust, repeatable, and transferable manufacturing processes.\nWorking closely with the team’s technical leader, R&D specialists, equipment engineers, and the Production organization, you will help establish how processes behave, identify and control sources of variation, develop operating windows and process controls, and build the evidence required to demonstrate manufacturing readiness.\nThis is an R&D process development role, not a sustaining production engineering role. \nOwn the manufacturing and process development maturity of assigned R&D processes from early technical demonstration through successful transfer to production.\nPartner with the technical leader to develop process development plans, identify manufacturing risks and knowledge gaps, and establish clear readiness criteria.\nWork with the team to design effective experiments, including experimental structure, sampling plans, measurement methods, and statistical analysis.\nAnalyze experimental and process data to understand sources of variation, determine meaningful relationships between process inputs and outputs, and translate results into actionable engineering decisions.\nEstablish process operating windows, critical process parameters, acceptance criteria, measurement methods, control plans, and appropriate response strategies.\nQualify the inspection and measurement methods used to judge conformance, including measurement system capability for features that cannot be measured directly.\nDevelop the manufacturing evidence required to demonstrate repeatability, yield, cycle time, capability, and commercial practicality.\nConduct process risk assessments, FMEAs, and drive mitigation of significant manufacturing risks.\nTranslate technical knowledge into robust process documentation, including specifications, work instructions, SOPs, process controls, troubleshooting guidance, and training materials.\nWork closely with equipment engineers to define process requirements for equipment, instrumentation, automation, and controls while equipment engineers retain ownership of equipment design and implementation.\nSeparate process, equipment, and measurement variation before attributing a result to the process, and work with the mechatronics engineer to close the equipment and measurement contributions.\nWork alongside R&D specialists during hands-on experimentation, troubleshooting, characterization, and process development.\nSupport the transition of new processes into production, including process validation, operator training, initial production runs, and resolution of development related gaps.\nEnsure receiving production teams can execute the process independently and achieve agreed quality, repeatability, throughput, and cost expectations.\nUse lessons from manufacturing development and production transfer to improve subsequent technology development efforts.\nWhat you’ll need\nBachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, manufacturing engineering, materials science, chemical engineering, industrial engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.\n3+ years of experience in manufacturing engineering, process engineering, process development, applied R&D, or a related technical field.\nDemonstrated experience developing, characterizing, or improving physical manufacturing processes.\nStrong applied statistical skills, including experimental design, data analysis, process variation, measurement system analysis, and statistical process control.\nExperience translating experimental results into engineering specifications, operating limits, process controls, or manufacturing procedures.\nStrong hands-on engineering judgment and ability to troubleshoot complex interactions among materials, equipment, process parameters, and measured outcomes.\nAbility to structure ambiguous technical problems, identify the evidence required to resolve them, and drive work toward practical decisions.\nStrong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to document technical work clearly enough for others to reproduce it.\nPreferred qualifications\nExperience taking a new technology or manufacturing process from laboratory or prototype development through pilot production or production introduction.\nExperience with DOE, ANOVA, regression, measurement-system analysis, capability analysis, Cp/Cpk, control charts, and other applied statistical methods.\nExperience developing process FMEAs, control plans, SOPs, qualification plans, or manufacturing-readiness documentation.\nExperience establishing yield, scrap, cycle time, throughput, and cost baselines for new processes.\nExperience with advanced manufacturing, additive manufacturing, ceramics, photopolymer processing, investment casting, metals processing, or related technologies.\nExperience working in an R&D or startup environment where equipment, process definitions, and technical requirements are changing rapidly.\nFamiliarity with manufacturing readiness or technology readiness frameworks and the transition from prototype capability to repeatable production.\nAdditional requirements\nMust be able to work onsite in El Segundo, CA.\nMust be able to work extended hours and/or weekends as needed.\nCompensation\nPlease note that the salary information shown below is a general guideline. Salaries are based on demonstrated candidate experience and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.\n L1-L2 and L3: $108,000-$154,000 annually, depending on level and qualifications, plus equity.\nBenefits\nRangeview offers a competitive benefits package, including equity, unlimited PTO, medical, dental, and vision insurance.\nCompliance\nRangeview is a DDTC-registered, ITAR-compliant business. To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. 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