About us

Alloy Enterprises is transforming how aluminum parts are made. Aluminum will be part of the electrification journey of everything that moves, and flexible, on-demand, and cost-competitive fabrication will be essential to this transition. Automotive, aerospace, and industrial equipment need to be lighter, and fabrication methods need to keep pace with the speed of innovative new designs. Our novel, scalable, full-stack additive manufacturing process disrupts the multi-year lead time, process limitations, and high up-front cost of aluminum casting.

“Alloy Enterprises is fundamentally transforming aluminum manufacturing for transportation, much like Carnegie Steel did for the railroad 100 years ago. Now is the time for us to bring scalable additive aluminum manufacturing to mass production and accelerate our society’s ability to electrify everything that moves.” - Alison Forsyth, CEO

Founded in early 2020, the company has raised $38M and is generating revenue with our pilot manufacturing facility. For the first time, on-demand fabrication meets the cost and scale of casting in an exploding $102B market – largely driven by electrification. We are now building out our team and production fab facilities to meet customer demand. If you are a sleeve-rolling builder who sets their bar high and enjoys thinking out loud in a collaborative and inclusive working environment, we’d love to hear from you.

About the Role

This Senior Process Engineer will work within the Process team by advancing our novel manufacturing technology. The role will report to the Head of Process and Materials.

If you’re right for this role, you are a creative problem solver that is eager to take on new challenges. You will contribute to multiple steps in our process that include laser cutting, metal-metal bonding, surface characterization/preparation, complex part geometry design, data and computational analysis, and material property optimization. You’ll be expected to lead projects from initial concept and ideation through data collection/analysis, all the way to handoff to production machines (and into parts that go directly to customers).

Responsibilities:

• Optimizing and developing the Alloy manufacturing process at all stages
• Identifying issues within the process, brainstorming fixes and testing their effectiveness, and implementing solutions
• Work cross-functionally with other teams (mechanical, software, product) to problem solve to ensure all design constraints are considered
• Gather and analyze data collected from pilot and production machines
• Carry out root cause analysis
• Develop support removal strategies for novel part geometries

Requirements:

• Ability to iterate and improve process methods to improve throughput and reliability
• Experience with at least one of the following: process optimization, additive manufacturing geometry design, in-line inspection, hardware/instrumentation, machine bring-up and validation
• A statistically driven mindset for interpreting and communicating data; ability to effectively present data
• Proficiency with Python software coding in a data analysis context.
• Experience leading projects with teams and/or companies that blend hardware, software, and manufacturing
• Readiness to work in an environment that has: changing requirements, rapid iteration with hardware, heavy communication demands, and process development that involves critical, high-risk trade-offs.
• Dynamic and flexible mindset, easily balancing the needs of the day-to-day with long-term strategic thinking.
• Technical degree with 5+ years experience in industry or PhD with 2+ years of industry experience

Benefits:

• Flexible paid time off and nine company holidays
• Medical, dental, and vision, including dependency coverage
• 401k with 3% employer contribution, options for pre or post-tax
• Stock options
• All employees are eligible for paid parental leave regardless of gender identity or expression
• Career advancement opportunities in a high-growth environment
• Good coffee, regular happy hours, and weekly team lunches

Additional requirements

This position will require access to information subject to control under U.S. export control laws and regulations, including the Export Administration Regulations (“EAR”) and International Traffic in Arms Regulations (“ITAR”). Please note that any offer for employment will be conditioned on authorization to receive controlled items without sponsorship for an export license.

Regarding Sponsorship

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa, including H-1B, H-1C, H-2A, H-2B, H-3, F-1 or OPT at this time.

Equal employment opportunity

We are committed to creating an equitable and inclusive environment for all our employees and seek to build a team that reflects the diversity of the people we hope to serve with our products. We are proud to be an equal-opportunity employer.