Systems Engineer, Additive Manufacturing

Responsibilities

• Execute the end-to-end integration of metal AM machines, peripherals, and cell infrastructure into OPUS.
• Lead FAT and SAT for all incoming PBF-LB systems against Hadrian acceptance criteria — coordinating OEM field engineers, documenting results, and driving resolution of open items to production release.
• Define system requirements, interface control documents (ICDs), integration kits, and machine acceptance criteria that scale across multiple OEMs, configurations, and sites.
• Build and own factory acceptance test (FAT) and site acceptance test (SAT) playbooks, commissioning checklists, and validation plans. Partner with Quality and Process teams to ensure integrated systems support qualification and production release.
• Experience reliability engineering discipline for AM equipment (PM strategy, spares, calibration, MTBF and MTTR tracking, failure mode mitigation). Ability to structured root cause and corrective action with OEMs and internal teams.
• Lead efforts to implement hardware, firmware, and configuration improvements that increase build envelope utilization, process stability, and throughput (for example gas flow, recoater systems, calibration, and motion subsystems), while maintaining configuration control.
• Own standard work for machine operation and integration points, including equipment control procedures, safety interlocks, change control, and training. Ensure readiness for regulated environments and customer audits.
• Partner tightly with Additive Manufacturing, Materials and Process, Manufacturing Engineering, Software, Quality, Supply Chain, and Operations to industrialize solutions and deliver production commitments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or related field
• Master’s degree is a plus
• 5+ years of experience in metal additive manufacturing systems engineering, equipment engineering, automation, or factory-scale integration, with deep familiarity in metal LPBF
• Hands-on knowledge of metal LPBF machine architecture and key subsystems including powder handling, optics, motion, recoater, build plate handling, atmospheres and gas flow, sensing and monitoring, and post-build workflow
• Familiarity with reliability engineering fundamentals — PM program design, MTBF/MTTR analysis, and structured problem-solving
• Experience managing OEM relationships and coordinating commissioning across multiple machine platforms
• Experience deploying automation in production manufacturing environments, including safety, interlocks, commissioning, and sustaining engineering
• Strong problem-solving using structured methods (8D, 5 Whys, fishbone) and proven ability to drive corrective and preventive actions to closure
• Willing to travel up to 20%, including international supplier visits