Base Salary
$150k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and develop software for an advanced, production-scale metal 3D-printing system.
- Collaborate with mechanical engineers, electrical engineers, and physicists to integrate control algorithms into production software.
- Improve and scale petabyte-scale, high-rate telemetry, storage, and retrieval systems.
- Solve challenging algorithmic and optimization problems using computer science and engineering fundamentals.
- Develop high-performance computing solutions using GPU parallel processing.
- Collaborate across disciplines, deploy software rapidly, and contribute to architectural and systems-level decisions.
Requirements
- At least five years of professional software development experience.
- Proficiency in a systems-level programming language such as C, C++, or Rust.
- Experience with high-performance systems software, including hardware control systems, embedded software, high-volume telemetry systems, graphics rendering, or similar systems.
- Bachelor’s or advanced degree in computer science or computer engineering is preferred.
- Eight or more years of professional software development experience is preferred.
- Experience with backend infrastructure, high-performance storage, streaming processing, scientific analysis pipelines, industrial automation, robotics, operations systems, computer architecture, computer graphics, or geometry-intensive problems is preferred.
- Experience operating as a technical lead, driving architectural decisions, and mentoring junior engineers is preferred.
Benefits
- Full-time onsite work in Hawthorne five days per week, with very limited exceptions.
- 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance with PPO and HMO options.
- Life insurance and traditional and Roth 401(k) plans.
- Relocation assistance.
- Paid vacation, sick leave, company holidays, and generous paid parental leave.
- Significant stock option package.
- Free daily catered lunch and dinner, stocked kitchenette, flexible work hours, and catered team-building events.
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. We are a team of first-principles thinkers driven by a shared mission: to build the fundamental technology that moves the world forward. We believe that solving the foundational challenges of production requires a massive diversity of expertise, deep collaboration, low ego, and a healthy sense of humor. Whether you are an engineer, a builder of systems, or a creative problem-solver in any field, we invite you to help us align the physical world with the pace of human imagination. We are backed by industry leading VC's including Founders Fund, NVIDIA's NVenures, Threshold Ventures, Two Sigma Ventures, Linse Capital, 8VC, Valor, and more who share our conviction in scaling Physical AI to revolutionize manufacturing.