- Robot type
- Industrial Automation
- Location
- TorranceCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Hardware
- Posted
- Aug 31, 2026
- Salary
- $148,430–$204,090 a year
Full-time
Staff Opto-Mechanical Engineer
Job description
Join us and help push the boundaries of what can be built.
As a Staff Opto-Mechanical Engineer , you will serve as a technical owner for the optical and opto-mechanical systems within Divergent’s laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF) platform.
You will work on a complex production machine already operating in the field, with responsibility for improving optical performance, reliability, repeatability, calibration, and long-term system capability. You will lead difficult technical investigations, drive design improvements, establish engineering methods and standards, and help define the evolution of future printer architectures.
This role requires both deep technical capability and broad system…
Job responsibilities
- Serve as a technical authority for printer optics and beam-delivery systems.
- Own system performance, reliability, calibration, and continued development of critical optical and opto-mechanical hardware.
- Lead root-cause investigations involving focus, spot size, scan-field behavior, alignment, thermal drift, vibration, contamination, calibration, and mechanical stability.
- Translate fleet and production issues into structured investigations, corrective actions, and durable design improvements.
- Develop and maintain optical error budgets, requirements, calibration strategies, acceptance criteria, and validation methods.
- Determine whether performance issues should be addressed through calibration, compensation, hardware changes, process changes, or architectural redesign.
- Plan and lead optical characterization, prototype testing, design-of-experiments, and system validation.
- When needed, work hands-on with printers to assemble, align, calibrate, characterize, and troubleshoot optical systems.
Job requirements
- Ability to lawfully access information and technology that is subject to US export controls.
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Physics, Applied Physics, or a related discipline.
- 7+ years of relevant engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated technical capability.
- Demonstrated experience owning or leading development of complex optical or opto-mechanical systems.
- Strong understanding of geometric optics and laser-system fundamentals.
- Experience designing precision mechanical hardware for optical alignment and stability.
- Strong capability in 3D CAD, engineering drawings, GD&T, and tolerance analysis.
- Experience with optical alignment, calibration, characterization, and system-level error budgeting. Including hands-on experience assembling, aligning, testing, and debugging sophisticated hardware.