Software Engineer, Freeform
C++
$100-145k
+ Stock Options
Office located in Hawthorne, CA
Metal 3D printing factories
Open for applications
Metal 3D printing factories
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$100-145k
+ Stock Options
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
- 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!
- 3+ years of professional experience in software development
- Proficiency in writing production code in C++
- Experience with modern continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) tools
- Experience working in a Linux environment
- Bachelor's or advanced degree in computer science or computer engineering
Desirable
- 5+ years of professional software development experience
- Experience interfacing with microcontrollers or FPGA computing hardware
- Experience developing embedded or real-time software systems
- Experience writing software for industrial automation systems, robotics, or related hardware
What the job involves
- As a Software Engineer at Freeform, you will be responsible for developing, maintaining, and contributing to the architecture of critical software systems for our autonomous 3D printing factories, which includes controls, data acquisition/storage systems, and input geometry processing pipelines
- Ultimately, your solutions will enable the first production scale, high quality, and fully automated metal 3D printing factory capabilities
- As a crucial member of the engineering team, you will be responsible for driving the pace of innovation, maximizing development speed, and maintaining a standard of excellence within the entire engineering team
- Architect and develop software for an advanced, production-scale metal 3D printing system
- Work with process, control, and mechanical engineers to integrate control algorithms into production software
- Improve and scale out high-rate data acquisition, storage, and retrieval systems
- Implement processes for converting customer part geometries into machine print instructions
- Expand testing, continuous integration, and continuous deployment (CI/CD) support throughout the software engineering team
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.
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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
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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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