Location
Onsite in Torrance, California, United States. The role requires lawful access to information and technology subject to US export controls.
Salary
$148,430–$204,090 USD per year, plus equity and discretionary incentive bonus opportunities.
Company
Divergent develops integrated engineering and manufacturing solutions for demanding automotive, aerospace, and defense applications.
What you will do
•Own intake, triage, prioritization, ownership, and status tracking for machine reliability escalations across the additive manufacturing fleet.
•Coordinate complex, cross-functional root-cause investigations and corrective actions for recurring, systemic, and machine-level failures.
•Guide engineering solutions through evidence-based validation, technical-debt reduction, and confirmed issue closure.
•Use fleet health, downtime, utilization, failure-rate, maintenance, and production data to prioritize reliability work.
•Translate reliability learnings into engineering requirements, standards, validation strategies, and future machine capabilities.
•Provide technical leadership across hardware, automation and controls, materials and processes, software, manufacturing, and supplier quality teams.
Requirements
•Onsite work in Torrance, California, United States.
•Ability to lawfully access US export-controlled information and technology.
•Bachelor's degree in mechanical, electrical, mechatronics, manufacturing, systems engineering, or a related technical field.
•At least 6 years of experience in machine development, reliability, manufacturing, equipment engineering, or a related discipline.
•Experience leading root-cause investigations and corrective actions for electromechanical or automated equipment.
•Experience with structured problem-solving methods such as RCCA, 8D, fault-tree analysis, FMEA, or DOE, plus strong cross-functional communication skills.
Nice to have
•8+ years improving complex industrial equipment or automated manufacturing systems.
•Experience with laser powder bed fusion, additive manufacturing, industrial automation, robotics, semiconductor equipment, aerospace manufacturing, or similar systems.
•Experience owning reliability across a machine fleet and using fleet health or maintenance data to prioritize engineering work.
•Experience defining reliability requirements, validation criteria, qualification strategies, or engineering standards.
•Staff-level technical leadership and experience scaling reliability processes or issue-management systems.
Culture & Benefits
•Paid vacation, sick time, company holidays, and a year-end shutdown.
•Paid parental leave and comprehensive health coverage with HMO and Premium PPO options.
•Company-sponsored life insurance and short- and long-term disability coverage.
•Learning and development reimbursement opportunities.
•Collaborative, high-performing, mission-driven environment focused on advancing manufacturing technology and reducing environmental footprint.
