Staff Opto-Mechanical Engineer

Divergent is building the new industrial age. Every day, our teams design, manufacture, and assemble advanced systems for some of the world’s most demanding industries. Our integrated engineering and manufacturing platform transforms complex designs into production-ready solutions, helping customers move faster, build smarter, and deliver critical systems when they matter most. Divergent is a qualified Tier 1 supplier to global automotive OEMs and supports leading U.S. aerospace and defense companies.

Join us and help push the boundaries of what can be built.

Purpose

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 ownership across optics, mechanical engineering, controls, software, additive process development, manufacturing, quality, and service.

• 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.

• Partner with software, controls, service, and process teams to improve calibration, diagnostics, compensation, and print consistency.

• Work with manufacturing, service, quality, and suppliers to improve robustness, serviceability, component performance, and fleet consistency.

• Identify limitations in the