Firestorm Labs - Democratize the fight with radically-affordable, mission-adaptable power for air, land, and sea. Backed by NEA.
About the role
A manufacturing system is only as good as the parts it actually produces. This role owns that promise. As an Application Engineer , Additive Manufacturing you're the bridge between what our customers need to make and what xCell can reliably deliver — turning a warfighter's "I need this part, here, now" into a validated, repeatable manufacturing process on a fielded system.
What they're looking for
- Application development — take customer part requirements and turn them into validated, repeatable manufacturing processes on xCell across additive (MJF, FDM, metal) and CNC, from DFM/DFAM through first article
- Process & materials engineering — develop and qualify process parameters, materials, and the part libraries and work instructions that let operators produce to spec without you in the room
- Field & deployment support — support xCell deployments, train and enable operators, and troubleshoot production issues on fielded systems in both CONUS and OCONUS environments
- Customer engagement — work directly with warfighters and program customers to understand the applications they care about and translate mission needs into what xCell can produce
- Sustaining & quality — own first-article inspection and part qualification, and when a fielded system fails to deliver as advertised, drive the process- and application-level fix
- Cross-functional feedback loop — feed real application and field data back to systems, mechanical, and manufacturing engineering to sharpen the next generation of xCell
More about this role
A manufacturing system is only as good as the parts it actually produces. This role owns that promise. As an Application Engineer , Additive Manufacturing you're the bridge between what our customers need to make and what xCell can reliably deliver — turning a warfighter's "I need this part, here, now" into a validated, repeatable manufacturing process on a fielded system.
You'll live at the intersection of additive and traditional manufacturing, process development, materials, and the customer. One day you're dialing in print or machining parameters and running a part to first article; the next you're on a deployment helping operators produce reliably under real conditions, then feeding what you learned back to engineering to make the next xCell better. If you want to own hard, hands-on problems that have near-term impact in the field — not spend your days moving PowerPoints — this is the right place.
What You'll Do
- Application development — take customer part requirements and turn them into validated, repeatable manufacturing processes on xCell across additive (MJF, FDM, metal) and CNC, from DFM/DFAM through first article
- Process & materials engineering — develop and qualify...
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