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Materials Engineer (New Grad December 2026)

Los Angeles, CA (On-site)entryAdded 6 days ago

About this role

Freeform seeks a new graduate materials engineer to support the development of materials and processes infrastructure for advanced metal 3D printing systems. You'll conduct hands-on testing, analyze material properties, and collaborate with senior engineers to drive process improvements in an AI-native manufacturing environment.

What you'll do

  • Establish and maintain M&P best practices and materials testing infrastructure
  • Operate characterization equipment to measure tensile strength, surface roughness, and microstructure
  • Track quality metrics of printed parts including dimensional accuracy and defect distribution
  • Analyze data and present findings to inform process optimization
  • Partner with process development teams to integrate materials insights into printing process improvements
  • Support automation initiatives for materials and processes procedures

What they're looking for

  • Materials characterization techniques (cutting, grinding, polishing, etching, optical microscopy)
  • Metals processing and sample preparation
  • Materials engineering fundamentals and first-principles problem solving
  • Data analysis and interpretation
  • Technical communication and presentation
  • Lab equipment operation
  • Statistical analysis (R, JMP, Minitab preferred)
  • Metal additive manufacturing knowledge (preferred)
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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.

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Likely interview questions

  • Walk us through a lab project where you characterized a material's properties—what techniques did you use and what did you learn?
  • How would you approach troubleshooting unexpected results in a tensile test or microscopy analysis?
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