Senior Product Engineer, Post Processing - Aerospace & Defense
Listed on 2026-08-18
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Manufacturing / Production
Manufacturing Engineer, Quality Engineering, Manufacturing & Industrial Operations
About Us
Founded in 2015 to develop the world’s first industrially scalable laser metal additive manufacturing solution, Vulcan Forms is reshaping how the world manufactures critical products. We build and operate advanced digital infrastructure that enables innovation, accelerates growth, and supports sustainability across aerospace, defense, medical, and other essential industries. Through our vertically integrated capabilities, including scalable additive manufacturing and precision machining, we deliver true end-to-end production at scale by combining cutting-edge technology with a foundation of proven industrial craftsmanship.
Our team brings deep expertise in manufacturing, materials science, software, automation, and operations, united by a shared commitment to quality, curiosity, and accountability. We foster an inclusive culture where people take ownership, solve meaningful problems, and continuously learn, because we believe diverse perspectives lead to better outcomes.
Founded in 2015 to develop the world’s first industrially scalable laser metal additive manufacturing solution, Vulcan Forms is reshaping how the world manufactures critical products. We build and operate advanced digital infrastructure that enables innovation, accelerates growth, and supports sustainability across aerospace, defense, medical, and other essential industries. Through our vertically integrated capabilities, including scalable additive manufacturing and precision machining, we deliver true end-to-end production at scale by combining cutting-edge technology with a foundation of proven industrial craftsmanship.
Our team brings deep expertise in manufacturing, materials science, software, automation, and operations, united by a shared commitment to quality, curiosity, and accountability. We foster an inclusive culture where people take ownership, solve meaningful problems, and continuously learn, because we believe diverse perspectives lead to better outcomes.
As a Senior Product Engineer, Post-Processing at Vulcan Forms, you will design and direct the manufacturing processes that take our printed parts from the build plate to a finished, inspected product. You will work on new product introduction and on continuous improvement of parts already in production, using advanced manufacturing techniques, automation, and lean manufacturing methods to develop an optimized production part.
You will define the processes, procedures, work instructions, and systems that produce our components and sub-assemblies to customer specification, drawing on product design, fabrication, assembly, work-holding, cutting tools, and materials expertise. You will support a wide range of aerospace and defense products.
- Evaluate customer designs and provide Design for Additive Manufacturing (DFAM) feedback.
- Partner with the rest of the product team to make sure processing intent is optimized for customer requirements.
- Own process development for every operation after printing, including part movement, depowdering, plate removal, heat treatment and subcontracted operations.
- Work with quality resources to ensure appropriate inspection techniques are employed, and are meeting customer needs in both a development, and production context.
- Encode internal and external customer requirements into the factory's manufacturing steps by building part-specific methods of manufacture in our ERP system.
- Design, develop, and implement fixtures and work-holding for process and part-handling steps such as depowdering, EDM, heat treatment, support removal, machining, assembly, cleaning, marking, and finishing
-including prototype fixtures, whose manufacture you will oversee. - Write and maintain work instructions and process-related quality documentation, adapting existing processes for new products and keeping files, programs, and revisions under proper configuration control.
- Keep parts moving through the factory by reviewing and dispositioning non-conforming material.
- Support operations with troubleshooting and problem-solving across every process step between printing and final delivery.
- 5+ years of…
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