Senior Software Engineer, Freeform
Factory Edge Services
$150-250k
+ Stock Options
Relocation assistance provided
Office located in Hawthorne, CA
Metal 3D printing factories
Be an early applicant
Metal 3D printing factories
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$150-250k
+ Stock Options
Relocation assistance provided
Office located in Hawthorne, CA
21-100 employees
Company mission
To make the transformative power of 3D printing available to all industries at scale and unlock the future of innovation.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of professional experience in software development
- Proficiency writing, deploying, and maintaining performance oriented backend services (preferably Rust, Go, C++, Java or Python)
- Experience developing robust data pipeline software
Desirable
- Degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or related field
- Experience with Arrow, Parquet, Iceberg, Spark, Kafka
- Experience with time series databases, big data warehousing solutions and cloud computing
- Experience with containerized applications and deployment via Kubernetes
- Experience deploying to and working with physical hardware
- Experience working with high-speed high-volume data processing pipelines
- Familiarity with 3D data and graphics
- Creative thinker able to apply first principles reasoning to solve complex problems
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
What the job involves
- Freeform is deploying software-defined, autonomous metal 3D printing factories around the world, bringing the scalability of software to physical production
- Our proprietary technology stack leverages advanced sensing, real-time controls, and data-driven learning to produce digitally verified, flawless parts at unprecedented speed and cost
- Our mission is to make the transformative power of 3D printing available to all industries at scale and unlock the future of innovation
- In this role, you will be responsible for architecting and implementing factory edge services, backend data pipeline infrastructure and advanced telemetry capabilities of our metal 3D printing systems
- You will work with petabyte-scale data feeds, enabling Freeform engineers to rapidly access critical data across the factory ecosystem
- You will work with our machine learning team to provide data pipelines that feed the printing industry’s first GPU-based ML platform
- Ultimately, your code will enable the first production scale, high quality, and fully automated metal 3D printing factory
- 3D printing experience is not required to be successful here - rather we look for smart, motivated, collaborative engineers who love solving hard problems and creating amazing technology!
- Architect state-of-the art backend software and factory edge services for an advanced production-scale metal 3D printing factory
- Develop software to collect, transform, and query petabytes worth of sensor data
- Perform calibrations, log quality data, and keep track of the health of the printing system over its lifetime
- Create data pipelines to feed the machine learning team with critical print data
- Develop, unit test, and deploy functional, scalable, robust, and maintainable software
Our take
There is a huge amount of demand for precision metal fabrication in future-focused industries such as rocketry and vehicle manufacturing, but legacy production techniques are too slow and inflexible to meet the requirements of rapidly changing designs in the most innovative firms. Enter Freeform Future, a company which builds metal 3D printing factories to allow manufacturers to swiftly and efficiently go from idea to mass production.
Founded by engineers with extensive experience at SpaceX, Freeform seeks to replace existing metal fabrication works - typified with heavy reliance on manual labour and legacy processes - with 3D printers and automated software technologies. Rather than needing to train a large workforce on production techniques, Freeform will be able to print almost any metal item at production scale on demand, with a turnaround time of days rather than weeks.
Though having only emerged from stealth in 2023, Freeform has some large-scale customers including autonomous trucking firm Embark and rocket part manufacturer, Ursa Major. After raising significant funding in early 2023, the company is moving from prototype to production, scaling up its operations to meet the growing demand for rapidly produced, high-quality metal components.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
57% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Oct 2024
$14m
EARLY VC
Feb 2023
$45m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $59m
Company benefits
- Significant stock option packages
- 100% employer-paid Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance (premium PPO and HMO options)
- Life insurance
- Traditional and Roth 401(k)
- Relocation assistance provided
- Paid vacation, sick leave, and company holidays
- Generous Paid Parental Leave and extended transition back to work for the birthing parent
- Free daily catered lunch and dinner, and fully stocked kitchenette
- Casual dress, flexible work hours, and regular catered team building events
Company HQ
Hawthorne, CA
Leadership
Erik Palitsch
(CEO)Previously was Propulsion Development Manager at SpaceX. Before that was a Solid Propulsion Systems Engineer for NASA.
Thomas Ronacher
(President)Before co-founding Freeform, was VP Hardware Engineering at Hyperloop One and Thermal System Lead for Virgin Galactic. Prior to that was Principal Design Engineer with Seal Science and Senior Propulsion Analyst at SpaceX.
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