Freeform
Design Engineer (Aerospace and Defense Hardware)
About this role
Freeform seeks a Design Engineer to reimagine aerospace and defense hardware through additive manufacturing and advanced part design. You'll work at the intersection of complex systems engineering and innovative manufacturing, redesigning components from first principles to unlock new performance capabilities and architectures previously constrained by traditional manufacturing limits.
What you'll do
- Design and redesign aerospace/defense parts including propulsion systems, thermal management, valves, turbomachinery, and structural components
- Develop deep understanding of component requirements, performance drivers, and system constraints in aerospace/defense programs
- Identify opportunities where additive manufacturing enables new geometries, consolidated assemblies, improved performance, or cost/lead time reduction
- Evaluate design concepts with expertise in materials, tolerances, thermal/structural behavior, and manufacturability
- Answer advanced technical questions on design tradeoffs and process capabilities independently
- Engage directly with frontier aerospace and defense industry partners
What they're looking for
- Mechanical or aerospace engineering expertise
- Part design and first-principles thinking
- Additive manufacturing knowledge and constraints
- Materials science and thermal/structural analysis
- Manufacturability and production reasoning
- Systems-level component understanding
- CAD and design software proficiency
- Technical problem-solving and design tradeoff analysis
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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 complex aerospace or defense component you've designed or redesigned. What were the key performance drivers, and how did you approach the design tradeoffs?
- How would you approach redesigning a traditionally manufactured part for additive manufacturing? What constraints would you reconsider, and what new capabilities might you unlock?