R&D Process Development Engineer

Compensation: $108,000–$154,000 annually
Equity: Included
Location: El Segundo, CA
Work Policy: Onsite
Level: L1–L2 and L3
Hiring Count: 2 — one L1–L2 and one L3
Core KPIs: Process repeatability, yield, capability, cycle time, commercial practicality, and successful transfer to Production.

Rangeview is on a mission to build the foundry system that reindustrializes America. We exist to break the legacy manufacturing trap by reinventing critical production for the twenty-first century. Through advanced software, deep automation, breakthroughs in materials science, and modern financing strategies, Rangeview rewrites both the cost curve and the power structure of making metal parts.

You will work within Rangeview’s R&D team as new technologies move from successful technical demonstrations toward manufacturing readiness. You will influence technologies while they are still evolving, own the maturation of assigned manufacturing processes, and help transfer those processes into the broader production environment.

As a Process Development Engineer, you will turn promising technologies into robust, repeatable, and transferable manufacturing processes.

Working closely with the team’s technical leader, R&D specialists, equipment engineers, and the Production organization, you will help establish how processes behave, identify and control sources of variation, develop operating windows and process controls, and build the evidence required to demonstrate manufacturing readiness.

This is an R&D process development role, not a sustaining production engineering role
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• Own the manufacturing and process development maturity of assigned R&D processes from early technical demonstration through successful transfer to production.
• Partner with the technical leader to develop process development plans, identify manufacturing risks and knowledge gaps, and establish clear readiness criteria.
• Work with the team to design effective experiments, including experimental structure, sampling plans, measurement methods, and statistical analysis.
• Analyze experimental and process data to understand sources of variation, determine meaningful relationships between process inputs and outputs, and translate results into actionable engineering decisions.
• Establish process operating windows, critical process parameters, acceptance criteria, measurement methods, control plans, and appropriate response strategies.
• Qualify the inspection and measurement methods used to judge conformance, including measurement system capability for features that cannot be measured directly.
• Develop the manufacturing evidence required to demonstrate repeatability, yield, cycle time, capability, and commercial practicality.
• Conduct process risk assessments, FMEAs, and drive mitigation of significant manufacturing risks.
• Translate technical knowledge into robust process documentation, including specifications, work instructions, SOPs, process controls, troubleshooting guidance, and training materials.
• Work closely with equipment engineers to define process requirements for equipment, instrumentation, automation, and controls while equipment engineers retain ownership of equipment design and implementation.
• Separate process, equipment, and measurement variation before attributing a result to the process, and work with the mechatronics engineer to close the equipment and measurement contributions.
• Work alongside R&D specialists during hands‑on experimentation, troubleshooting, characterization, and process development.
• Support the transition of new processes into production, including process validation, operator training, initial production runs, and resolution of development related gaps.
• Ensure receiving production teams can…