Desktop Metal, based in Burlington, Massachusetts is reinventing the way engineering and manufacturing teams produce metal parts - from prototyping through mass production. Our mission is to advance product innovation with metal 3D printing. Founded in 2015 by leaders in advanced manufacturing, metallurgy, and robotics, the company is addressing the unmet challenges of speed, cost, and quality to make metal 3D printing an essential tool for engineers and manufacturers around the world. Desktop Metal has raised a total of $277 million in financing. Among the company’s investors include GV (formerly Google Ventures), GE Ventures, BMW, Lowe’s, Ford and Techtronic Industries (TTI).

In 2017, Desktop Metal was selected as one of the world’s 30 most promising Technology Pioneers by World Economic Forum; named to MIT Technology Review’s list of 50 Smartest Companies; named by the Boston Globe as one of the Best Places to Work in Boston and recognized among the most important innovations in engineering in Popular Science’s “2017 Best of What’s New.”

Desktop Metal is seeking a talented and self-motivated Materials Research Scientist. The ideal candidate will have experience developing novel materials from conceptualization to production. This position reports to the Lead Materials Scientist.

Responsibilities

• Developing materials that can be broadly applied to metal 3D printing
• Conducting material characterization and analysis
• Devising testing methods to evaluate specific material properties and performance
• Collaborating to develop printing processes and parameters
• Collaborating to develop sintering processes and parameters
• Studying and interpreting the elastic, plastic, and failure behaviors of metals in standard and non-standard mechanical tests
• Maintaining high level of communications with cross-functional team, and partners
• Working with an interdisciplinary team to define, write, and execute designs of experiments

Basic Qualifications

• Ability to resolve complex issues in creative, efficient, and effective ways
• Able to provide the customer and company-wide perspective to detailed technical decisions
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• PhD Materials Science, Metallurgy, Mechanical Engineering or equivalent

Preferred Experience

• Powder metallurgy and sintering process development
• Additive manufacturing
• Fractography
• High temperature experiments