# Manufacturing Engineer, Additive

**Company**: Astranis
**Location**: San Francisco
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $95,000-$165,000 USD
**Category**: Manufacturing
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96372482

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## Description

Astranis builds advanced satellites for high orbits, expanding humanity’s reach into the solar system. Today, Astranis satellites provide dedicated, secure networks to highly-sophisticated customers across the globe, large enterprises, sovereign governments, and the US military.

As a Manufacturing Engineer, Additive, you will be responsible for building Astranis's additive manufacturing capability from the ground up. You will own the entire lifecycle of our additive components , from working closely with the mechanical engineering team to ensure parts are designed for manufacturability to developing production processes, tooling, and inspection procedures on the factory floor.

Responsibilities:

- Own additive metal by developing Astranis's Laser Bed Powder Fusion process from the ground up.

- Own PEEK, ULTEM, and other engineered thermoplastic 3D printing processes.

- Work with design engineering to drive Design for Additive Manufacturing (DFAM), including participating in design reviews and assisting in tolerance stack up analysis.

- Develop standard operating procedures for printer calibration and maintenance.

- Develop process monitoring capability and print quality inspection criteria to ensure high print quality with minimal yield loss.

- Develop qualification tests and standard coupons for printed part quality and as-printed material properties.

- Write work instructions, work order templates, process specifications, and other build documents.

- Troubleshoot non-conformances on the floor to determine a disposition, root cause, and drive corrective actions.

- Assist in machining and programming operations as required for R&D and production.

- Assist in designing and creating fixturing for production.

- Work with supplier quality and contract manufacturers, to develop their manufacturing and quality processes and respond to questions and issues.

- Design and implement lean systems for continuous improvement.

- Own 5S activities throughout the additive manufacturing area.

Requirements:

- Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, manufacturing engineering, physics, or equivalent technical degree.

- 2+ years of direct professional experience in additive manufacturing, more specifically metal (Laser Bed Powder Fusion).

- Experience with explosive/combustible powder storage and handling best practices.

- Familiarity with additive software (nTop, 3DXpert, Materialise Magics, Netfabbm Ansys Additivem Altair Inspire Print 3D, or equivalents)

- 1+ years of experience in CNC machining, with exposure to complex machining centers (5-axis mills).

- Experience with 3D CAD software (Solidworks, Siemens NX, or similar).

- Highly competent in GD&T and drawing reviews.

- Experience in writing technical documents.

- Knowledge of different manufacturing process and their general quality capability.

- Mechanical design experience including creating solid models and prints.

- Must be onsite 5 days a week.

Benefits:

- Base pay is $95,000-$165,000 USD.

- Equity package via incentive stock options.

- High-quality company-subsidized healthcare, disability and life insurance.

- 401(k) retirement planning.

- Flexible PTO.

- Free on-site catered meals.

## Skills

### Required
- additive manufacturing
- metal 3D printing
- Laser Bed Powder Fusion
- PEEK
- ULTEM
- engineered thermoplastic 3D printing
- GD&T
- 5-axis CNC machining
- additive qualification processes
- CMM/optical inspection
- Design for Additive Manufacturing (DFAM)
- tolerance stack up analysis
- standard operating procedures
- process monitoring
- print quality inspection
- qualification tests
- standard coupons
- work instructions
- work order templates
- process specifications
- troubleshooting
- machining
- programming
- fixturing
- supplier quality
- contract manufacturers
- lean systems
- continuous improvement
- 5S activities

### Nice to have
- Master's degree in relevant STEM field
- applications in Additive Manufacturing
- advanced post processing techniques
- annealing
- Hot Isostatic Pressing
- CAM software
- Fusion 360
- Mastercam
- Siemens NX
- hands-on experience working as a Machinist
- complex machining centers
- mill/turns
- horizontals
- multi-channel machines
- automated systems
- MES/MRP systems
- precision hand tools

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