Staff Machine Reliability Engineer

Join Divergent, a leader in additive manufacturing, as a Staff Machine Reliability Engineer. In this role, you will lead the resolution of complex machine reliability challenges, drive issues from escalation through root cause and engineering solution, and ensure recurring failures are translated into durable technical improvements. You will work across multiple engineering disciplines and organizational boundaries, communicate reliability risks and technical findings to leadership, and improve the mechanisms and processes used to manage engineering reliability issues.

• Lead the resolution of complex and systemic machine reliability challenges across the additive manufacturing fleet, driving issues from escalation through root cause, engineering solution, and validated closure.
• Coordinate and support the investigation of recurring, systemic, and machine-level failures, driving and supporting the coordination of complex and cross-functional root cause analyses (RCCAs).
• Serve as a technical leader for reliability problems that span multiple engineering disciplines and organizational boundaries, creating alignment when ownership or technical direction is unclear.

• Experience working across mechanical, electrical, controls, software, manufacturing, and/or process engineering disciplines
• Demonstrated ability to independently drive technically ambiguous, cross-functional problems through resolution
• Strong understanding of structured problem-solving methodologies such as RCCA, 8D, fault-tree analysis, FMEA, DOE, or equivalent methods
• Demonstrated experience leading complex root cause investigations and corrective actions on electromechanical or automated equipment
• Ability to interpret machine and production data, distinguish correlation from root cause, and translate findings into engineering action
• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, Manufacturing Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related technical field
• 6+ years of experience in machine development, reliability engineering, manufacturing engineering, equipment engineering, or a related discipline
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate technical problems and risk to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Ability to lawfully access information and technology that is subject to US export controls
• 8+ years of experience developing, sustaining, or improving complex industrial equipment or automated manufacturing systems
• Experience with high-complexity capital equipment, laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing, industrial automation, robotics, additive manufacturing, semiconductor equipment, aerospace manufacturing, or similar systems
• Experience owning reliability across a fleet of machines rather than resolving issues on a single piece of equipment
• Experience using fleet health, downtime, utilization, failure-rate, or maintenance data to prioritize engineering work
• Experience defining reliability requirements, validation criteria, or qualification strategies for new machine designs and engineering changes
• Demonstrated technical leadership at the Staff level, including influencing teams and driving decisions without direct authority
• Experience establishing or scaling reliability engineering processes, issue-management systems, engineering standards, or technical-debt reduction mechanisms