Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Freeform

$140-250k

+ Stock options

SQL
MongoDB
Python
Cassandra
C++
C
MatLab
Hive
Senior level
Los Angeles

Relocation assistance provided

Office located in Hawthorne, CA

Freeform

Metal 3D printing factories

Open for applications

Freeform

Metal 3D printing factories

21-100 employees

B2BManufacturingPrinting

Open for applications

$140-250k

+ Stock options

SQL
MongoDB
Python
Cassandra
C++
C
MatLab
Hive
Senior level
Los Angeles

Relocation assistance provided

Office located in Hawthorne, CA

21-100 employees

B2BManufacturingPrinting

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!
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, applied mathematics, machine learning, data science, or similar technical discipline
  • 5+ years of experience in advanced machine learning
  • Proficient with Python, C/C++ or similar object oriented language
  • Proficient in advanced pattern recognition, predictive modeling and deep learning techniques
  • Experience with machine learning or data science as it relates to physics or the physical world
  • Creative thinker able to apply first-principles reasoning to solve complex problems

Desirable

  • Master's or PhD in computer science, applied mathematics, machine learning, data science highly preferred
  • Experience with computational geometry
  • Proficient in data mining and statistical analysis
  • Experience with both supervised and unsupervised learning techniques
  • Experience with image processing
  • Proficient with NoSQL databases, such as MongoDB or Cassandra
  • Experience using query languages such as SQL or Hive
  • Knowledge of MATLAB
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

What the job involves

  • As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Freeform, you'll need extensive experience in advanced pattern recognition, predictive modeling techniques, and deep learning algorithms, and should have experience with machine learning as it relates to physics or the physical world
  • You will play a key role in designing, developing, and integrating critical data science infrastructure and developing custom machine learning algorithms from scratch
  • Ultimately your solutions with enable us to scale the first production-scale, high-quality, and fully-automated metal 3D printing factory architecture
  • 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
  • Design and develop data models used for model predictive control in an advanced production-scale metal 3D printing system
  • Integrate data models and physics-based models into a unified simulation framework
  • Develop a deep learning framework for modeling the complex physics associated with laser melting printing technology
  • Develop unsupervised learning algorithms to correlate data with printed part quality
  • Develop methods to correlate process data with geometric features
  • Work closely with simulations engineers to create data models to be used to predict the thermo-mechanical response of printed parts
  • Develop learning modules for machine health monitoring
  • Work with software engineers to deploy data science algorithms in production software
  • Guide software engineers to develop the big data infrastructure required to collect and process large amounts of production printing data
  • Develop data models used for the end-to-end automation of an advanced metal 3D printing platform

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

Top investors

Many candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

57% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (1 round)

Feb 2023

$45m

EARLY VC

Total funding: $45m

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

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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