Materials & Process Engineer

Los Angeles, CAfull timeOn Site

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$140k–$190k

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Generalmatter Materials & Process Engineer responsible for selecting, characterizing, and qualifying metallic materials across hardware. Acts as a bridge between chemistry, materials science, and hardware engineering teams to solve materials and process challenges.

Responsibilities

As our Materials & Process Engineer, you'll be the materials generalist those teams rely on: the person who owns how metals are selected, characterized, and qualified across our hardware, and who bridges our chemistry and materials-science work with the engineers designing, building, and testing real components.
This is an engineering role. You care about how a material behaves in service, under load, temperature, and demanding environments, and how to get it reliably into production, not about formulation for its own sake. You'll sit squarely at the interface of chemistry and hardware development, working shoulder-to-shoulder with design, manufacturing, and test engineering every day.
If you seek high impact and are excited by fast-paced, intense, Skunkworks-style projects, we encourage you to apply to join our team.
Materials & Process Development
Own the selection, characterization, and qualification of metallic materials across General Matter's hardware
Develop physical, mechanical, and thermal property data and design allowables to support hardware design decisions
Define and improve manufacturing and special processes for metals (e.g., heat treatment, welding).
Drive material and process choices that increase reliability and reduce cost as we move from development into production
Cross-Functional Interface
Serve as the connective tissue between chemistry / materials-science and hardware development, translating materials constraints into engineering decisions and back again
Partner daily with design, manufacturing, and test engineering to solve complex materials and process challenges on current and next-generation hardware
Provide technical review of drawings, specifications, and material requirements

Qualification

Master's degree or PhFamiliarity with material qualificationExperience in a fast-pacedEqual Opportunity Employer

Required

Bachelor's degree in materials engineering, metallurgical engineering, mechanical engineering, or a related engineering discipline
Evidence of exceptional ability (prior projects, portfolio of work, completed products, etc.)
5+ years of professional materials and/or process engineering experience
Hands-on experience taking materials and processes from selection through characterization, qualification, and into production
Working breadth across metallic material
Ability to obtain and maintain any required security clearance and access authorization

Preferred

Master's degree or Ph.D. in materials engineering or a related field
Genuine generalist depth across metals (heat treatment, welding, forming, casting/forging, coatings).
Experience with failure analysis and characterization techniques, including fractography, metallography, SEM, FTIR, and mechanical testing
Experience serving as the interface between a chemistry or materials-science function and mechanical / hardware design and manufacturing teams
Familiarity with material qualification, design allowables, and relevant industry specifications (ASTM, ASME, AWS, NACE, etc.)
Experience in a fast-paced, resource-constrained startup or Skunkworks-style environment
Equal Opportunity Employer
General Matter is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with General Matter is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.

Benefits

Dental
Vision
401(k)
Equity/RSU

Company

Generalmatter

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10000+ employees

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Founded 1892

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