Freeform
Design Engineer (Advanced Energy Hardware)
About this role
Freeform seeks a Design Engineer to reimagine advanced energy hardware components for additive manufacturing. You'll work at the intersection of part design and AI-native manufacturing, redesigning turbines, heat exchangers, valves, and other critical energy systems from first principles to unlock new performance capabilities and manufacturing possibilities.
What you'll do
- Design and redesign energy hardware across turbines, heat exchangers, valves, manifolds, pressure vessels, and fuel systems
- Develop deep understanding of component requirements, performance drivers, and system constraints in energy generation and storage
- Identify opportunities where additive manufacturing enables new geometries, consolidated assemblies, and improved performance
- Evaluate design concepts considering materials, tolerances, thermal/structural behavior, and manufacturing feasibility
- Answer technical questions on design tradeoffs, process capabilities, and production scalability
- Collaborate with internal teams and customer engineering to refine concepts and align execution
What they're looking for
- Mechanical or energy systems engineering
- Advanced part design and CAD
- Additive manufacturing knowledge
- Thermal and structural analysis
- Materials science and selection
- Systems-level thinking for energy applications
- Manufacturing process understanding
- Technical communication
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Freeform
Freeform builds autonomous metal 3D printing factories powered by AI-native manufacturing systems, creating integrated platforms that handle production-scale operations with advanced controls and physics-based optimization. The company is hiring embedded software engineers, full-stack software engineers, simulation engineers, and process engineers to develop the core software, hardware systems, and manufacturing processes enabling automated metal additive manufacturing at scale.
View all jobs at FreeformLikely interview questions
- Walk us through a time you redesigned an existing part or component. What design constraints were you working within, and how did you identify opportunities to improve performance or manufacturability?
- Describe your experience with additive manufacturing processes. How do you think about the tradeoffs between traditional manufacturing and AM when designing components, and have you leveraged AM-specific geometries in past projects?