# Application Engineer, Additive Manufacturing at Firestorm

- Company: Firestorm
- What the company does: Firestorm Labs - Democratize the fight with radically-affordable, mission-adaptable power for air, land, and sea. Backed by NEA.
- Company website: https://www.launchfirestorm.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Diego, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $100K to $130K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-17
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.gem.com/firestorm/am9icG9zdDrCE21eLSjQ0HNQ8fUUbo8w
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/firestorm-application-engineer-additive-manufacturing/

## 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