# Director, Non-Destructive Evaluation at Divergent 3D

- Company: Divergent 3D
- Company website: https://www.divergent.us
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Torrance, California, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-11
- Apply by: 2026-10-26
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/divergent/jobs/5421128008
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/divergent-3d-director-non-destructive-evaluation/

## About the role

The Director, Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE) owns the strategy, roadmap, engineering maturity, and operational excellence of Divergent’s NDE capabilities. This leader will build and lead the NDE organization across both method development and production inspection, ensuring Divergent meets customer and industry requirements while advancing the state of the art in automated, digitally integrated inspection.

## What they're looking for

- Ability to lawfully access information and technology that is subject to US export controls
- 10+ years of NDE, manufacturing, materials, or related engineering experience, preferably in aerospace, defense, or space
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Materials Science, Physics, or a related technical field
- Demonstrated experience leading both NDE engineering and production inspection operations
- Active level III certification in at least one of the following RT, CT, UT/PAUT, or PT
- Experience developing and qualifying NDE procedures and deploying them into production

Tags: AM Materials Engineering