Additive Manufacturing Technician; Metal LPBF

Additive Manufacturing Technician (Metal LPBF)

Boom is building Superpower, a first-of-its-kind industrial gas turbine for behind-the-grid energy generation, and Symphony, the engine that will return supersonic flight to passengers. These engines are at the forefront of design and manufacturing technology, and additive manufacturing is how we make and iterate on critical engine components faster than any supply chain could. We're standing up the metal AM lab right now - the most advanced LPBF machines in existence, printing some of the hardest alloys in aerospace - and we need the technician who will own its floor.

At an established AM shop, a technician runs qualified builds on qualified machines: load the plate, press start, depowder, repeat. The process is frozen and the interesting decisions were made before you arrived.

This is not that job.

You'll run the builds, but you'll also help decide where the equipment goes, what tools we buy, how powder moves through the room, and how we keep it all safe and clean. When a build misbehaves, you're the one who catches it, documents it, and works with engineering on the fix. When the part comes off the machine, you're the one who cuts it from the plate, removes the supports, runs the heat treat, and puts calipers on it.

Your hands and your eyes are the feedback loop that makes the whole process better.

• Operate metal LPBF machines end to end: powder loading, plate leveling, build setup, monitoring, machine flips, and depowdering
• Maintain a high standard for powder processing: sieving, recovery, reuse tracking, lot management, PPE, and environmental controls, with a relentless focus on safety
• Run the post-processing chain: cutting parts from build plates (wire EDM), support removal, heat treatment, hand finishing, and tumbling
• Measure and verify parts with metrology tools - calipers, micrometers, optical microscopes - against engineering drawings
• Perform routine cleaning, preventive maintenance, and first-line troubleshooting on the machines - and work issues directly with vendors when needed
• Be the eyes on every build: catch anomalies early, document what you see, and close the feedback loop with engineering
• Manage consumables and powder inventory with full traceability
• Run the wax, ceramic, and polymer printing and investment casting processes in The Pit (our Overture landing-gear test site turned AM/casting R&D lab)
• Help build out and organize the lab itself: layout, tooling, workflow, and the work instructions the team will run on

The process you need won't always exist yet - you'll help define it. Some alloys we’re targeting are notoriously difficult to print and the machines are at the frontier of what the industry has qualified. That means your safety discipline, cleanliness, and documentation have to be absolute. If a build looks off, we need to know what you see, what you think, and what to do more than we need it to look finished.

• Hands-on experience operating metal laser powder bed fusion machines (EOS, Nikon SLM, Aconity3D, Renishaw, Velo3D, 3D Systems, or similar). Large format a plus
• Direct experience with powder handling, sieving, depowdering, and the PPE and cleanliness discipline metal powder demands
• A mechanical instinct - you've troubleshot and maintained finicky industrial equipment, not just operated it
• Experience with part post-processing: build plate removal, support removal, hand finishing, or heat treatment
• Working proficiency with metrology tools and engineering drawings; GD&T familiarity a plus
• Solid documentation habits and the ability to communicate clearly with engineers about what you're seeing
• Comfort in a fast-paced, ambiguous R&D environment where…