Summary
About this role
We are looking for a Senior Electrical Engineer with 3+ years of experience to join our team. We are seeking a highly motivated, first-principles hardware builder who thrives in a fast-paced, technically intense environment and can deliver top-notch results even when the path is ambiguous. This individual will be a core contributor on our next-generation, autonomous metal 3D printing factory platform, designing and shipping the custom electronics and sensor-driven control systems that enable real-time, ML-guided manufacturing at scale.
What will you be doing?
- Designing, integrating, and deploying custom electronics that power high-speed sensing, data acquisition, and real-time control across our next-generation printing factory platform.
- Owning full lifecycle hardware development end to end: electrical architecture, requirements definition, component selection, schematic capture, PCB design support, prototyping, bring-up, debugging, validation, performance checkout, and productionization.
- Building for compute-heavy systems, including the electrical backbone for high-performance computing stacks and interfaces involving FPGAs and GPUs, where timing, throughput, and reliability matter.
- Developing and using lab test setups and instrumentation to debug the unexpected, troubleshoot complex system-level issues, and take designs from bench to field with high confidence.
- Expanding the team’s design bandwidth by taking ownership of major subsystems and driving bring-up through validation and deployment, not just supporting or testing someone else’s design.
- Collaborating tightly with mechanical, software, controls, and manufacturing teams in a low-ego environment to “build the plane while flying it” and deliver a system that has never existed before.
Other facts
About Freeform
Freeform builds AI-native manufacturing systems that unify software, hardware, and physics to produce industrial-scale parts at the speed of human ideation. By treating manufacturing as a single integrated system, we unlock a new era of innovation where complex hardware is designed, built, and scaled without limits.
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. Freeform has raised $115 million from industry-leading investors including Founders Fund, Threshold Ventures, Apandion, Two Sigma Ventures, and NVIDIA's NVentures. We are actively looking for mission-driven individuals who thrive in a technically challenging, dynamic environment. As a team we believe in close collaboration, mutual respect, first-principles thinking, and having a sense of humor. If you are highly motivated and excited about building a world-changing technology, we’d love to hear from you!
Employee benefits
What you'll do
- Designing, integrating, and deploying custom electronics that power high-speed sensing, data acquisition, and real-time control across our next-generation printing factory platform.
- Owning full lifecycle hardware development end to end: electrical architecture, requirements definition, component selection, schematic capture, PCB design support, prototyping, bring-up, debugging, validation, performance checkout, and productionization.
- Building for compute-heavy systems, including the electrical backbone for high-performance computing stacks and interfaces involving FPGAs and GPUs, where timing, throughput, and reliability matter.
- Developing and using lab test setups and instrumentation to debug the unexpected, troubleshoot complex system-level issues, and take designs from bench to field with high confidence.
- Expanding the team’s design bandwidth by taking ownership of major subsystems and driving bring-up through validation and deployment, not just supporting or testing someone else’s design.
- Collaborating tightly with mechanical, software, controls, and manufacturing teams in a low-ego environment to “build the plane while flying it” and deliver a system that has never existed before.
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