Additive Manufacturing Specialist
Long Beach · 5+ years experience · Full-time · Onsite · Posted Oct 19, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 5+ years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Onsite
- Location
- Long Beach
About the role
- Vast is looking for an Additive Manufacturing Specialist, reporting to the Supervisor, Manufacturing, to support the development of systems required for human-rated space stations.
- The role involves operation and maintenance of additive manufacturing equipment, design of fixturing, improvement of additive workflows, and part post-processing and quality control.
Responsibilities
- Plan and set up print jobs, verify machine parameters, build layouts, and material settings against qualified processes, monitor builds and make recovery decisions.
- Diagnose build failures and process deviations, identify root causes, and recommend corrective actions.
- Design, build, validate, and release fixtures and tooling for builds, post-processing, and inspection, and document them with drawings and revision control.
- Map and improve workflows from build prep through post-processing, inspection, and release, and track metrics such as cycle time, throughput, first-pass yield, and machine utilization.
- Safely handle and track metal powder, including sieving, loading, de-powdering, storage, and lifecycle control.
- Perform and schedule preventive maintenance and troubleshoot equipment.
- Operate post-processing equipment such as drills, grinders, CNC, and EDM as required.
- Perform verifications and keep complete build, test, fixture, and maintenance records.
- Write and refine work instructions, SOPs, and safety practices.
- Support rapid iteration and development testing with engineering and train cross-functional partners and technicians on equipment, procedures, and safe powder handling.
Requirements
- High school degree or equivalency certificate.
- 5+ years of hands-on metal additive experience (LPBF) and powder handling or similar environment.
- CAD proficiency (e.g., Siemens NX or equivalent).
- Comfortable with hand tools and measurement equipment, and able to follow detailed procedures exactly and safely.
Preferred qualifications
- 9+ years experience of hands-on metal additive experience and powder handling or similar environment.
- Ability to read engineering drawings, including GD&T, and work from controlled documentation.
- Experience working in aerospace or defense manufacturing environments.
- Experience with CNC machining, EDM, or work-holding setup and programming.
- Experience with lean or continuous-improvement methods, root-cause analysis, and corrective action.
- Experience writing or revising SOPs and work instructions.
- Experience with powder quality testing and control.
- Experience training or mentoring others.
Benefits
- Company equity
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents
- Generous paid time off, including up to 10+ days of vacation for non-exempt staff with ability to cash-out unused vacation annually
- Paid parental leave
- Short and long-term disability insurance
- Life insurance
- 401(k) retirement plan
- ClassPass credits
- Personalized mental healthcare through Spring Health
- Food perks including snacks, drip coffee and onsite barista, cold drinks, free dinner meals, and subsidized lunch
Skills
- Siemens NX
- CAD
- LPBF
- GD&T
- CNC Machining
- EDM
