Manufacturing Engineer, Additive

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.