Senior Software Engineer

Freeform

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER (EMBEDDED) 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. As a Senior Embedded Software Engineer at Freeform, you will be responsible for architecting and implementing critical embedded software systems that enable our advanced metal 3D printing factories to operate fully autonomously at high speeds with precision. This entails developing elegant software solutions for hardware control, high speed data acquisition, and custom high performance compute systems. Your software will effectively act as the nervous system of our fully automated metal printing factories. 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. 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! Responsibilities: * Architect state-of-the-art software for an advanced production-scale metal 3D printing system * Design and develop the machine instruction interface to the metal 3D printing system hardware * Develop software to enable the computer vision system, monitor sensor data, perform calibrations, log quality data, and keep track of the health of the printing system over its lifetime * Work with process and control engineers to integrate control algorithms into production software * Work with FPGA developers to develop high-speed data acquisition software * Create software for collection and analysis of process data * Develop software required to implement production automation solutions * Develop, unit test, and deploy functional, scalable, robust, and maintainable software * Generate and maintain documentation of designed software and integrated systems Basic Qualifications: * 5+ years of experience in software development using C/C++ and/or Rust * Experience in real-time embedded system design with Linux OS * Experience in object-oriented programming and design Nice to Have: * Bachelor's, Master's or PhD in computer science, applied mathematics, engineering, or related field * Experience working in a high performance compute environment (FPGAs or GPUs) * Experience with PCIe driver development and troubleshooting * Experience with high speed data acquisition and real time closed-loop-control systems * Excellent knowledge of OS coding techniques, IP protocols, interfaces, and hardware subsystems * Experience writing software for industrial automation systems, robotics, or related hardware * Creative thinker able to apply first-principles reasoning to solve complex problems * Excellent verbal and written communication skills Location: * Based in Hawthorne, our vertically integrated facility brings technology development, R&D, and production together under one roof. We operate at the center of LA’s deep tech ecosystem, surrounded by some of the most ambitious hardware innovation happening anywhere in the country. * Our fast-paced, cross-functional environment is built on close collaboration, and as such, this role requires full-time onsite presence (five days a week), with very limited exceptions. What We Offer: * We have an inclusive and diverse culture that values collaboration, learning, and making deliberate data-driven decisions. * We offer a unique opportunity to be an early and integral member of a rapidly growing company that is scaling a world-changing technology. * 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 * Compensation   * As a growing company, the salary range is intentionally wide as we determine the most appropriate package for each individual taking into consideration years of experience, educational background, and unique skills and abilities as demonstrated throughout the interview process. Our intent is to offer a salary that is commensurate for the company’s current stage of development and allows the employee to grow and develop within a role.  * In addition to the significant stock option package, the estimated salary range for this role is $140,000-$250,000. The upper end of the range is reserved for individuals who demonstrate exceptional experience, deep domain mastery, and a proven history of high performance and impact. * Freeform is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values diversity; employment with Freeform is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.

Freeform

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER (FULL STACK ENTERPRISE)  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.  In this role, you will design and build the core platform that runs Freeform’s factories and connects every part of the business from quoting to production to delivery. The system must handle large amounts of data, support many different factory processes, and provide end-to-end traceability from powder-in to finished parts-out. You’ll partner with product management to architect and implement solutions, make foundational technical decisions, and work closely with engineers across disciplines to solve real, complex problems with your code.  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!  Responsibilities:  * Architect and implement a state-of-the-art enterprise software platform to seamlessly integrate Freeform’s business processes from sales to manufacturing * Develop applications to track the end-to-end lifecycle of millions of parts across thousands of customers around the world * Act as engineer, product owner, and team lead — scoping features, driving pace of schedule, assigning tasks, and delivering results * Work cross-functionally with other engineering and operations disciplines to gather requirements and solve problems with your code * Design highly scalable and resilient systems to meet Freeform’s high bar for quality, reliability, and security * Maintain accessibility and integrity of the backend data model to enable easy access for business intelligence users   * Design and develop intuitive user interfaces with a focus on functionality over aesthetics to increase system usability   Basic Qualifications:  * Degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, mathematics, or related field * 5+ years of professional experience in software development with Python, Go, Java, or similar * Experience with backend web frameworks such as Flask or Django * Experience with frontend web frameworks such as React or Next.js * Experience writing applications which interact with SQL databases and non-relational databases  Nice to Have:  * 10+ years of experience in software development * Experience as a team lead, architect, product owner, or similar technical leadership scope * Prior experience architecting and implementing a custom ERP, MRP, MES, CRM, e-commerce, logistics, warehouse management, fleet management, or similar complex software system   * Excellent written and verbal communication skills * Ability to gather and define requirements from technical audiences   * Comfortable “building the plane as we fly it”  Location:  * Based in Hawthorne, our vertically integrated facility brings technology development, R&D, and production together under one roof. We operate at the center of LA’s deep tech ecosystem, surrounded by some of the most ambitious hardware innovation happening anywhere in the country.  * Our fast-paced, cross-functional environment is built on close collaboration, and as such, this role requires full-time onsite presence (five days a week), with very limited exceptions.  What We Offer:  * We have an inclusive and diverse culture that values collaboration, learning, and making deliberate data-driven decisions. * We offer a unique opportunity to be an early and integral member of a rapidly growing company that is scaling a world-changing technology.  * 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  * Compensation    * As a growing company, the salary range is intentionally wide as we determine the most appropriate package for each individual taking into consideration years of experience, educational background, and unique skills and abilities as demonstrated throughout the interview process. Our intent is to offer a salary that is commensurate for the company’s current stage of development and allows the employee to grow and develop within a role.  * In addition to the significant stock option package, the estimated salary range for this role is $150,000-$225,000. The upper end of the range is reserved for individuals who demonstrate exceptional experience, deep domain mastery, and a proven history of high performance and impact. * Freeform is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values diversity; employment with Freeform is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.

Freeform

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER (GEOMETRY PROCESSING)  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.  Metal 3D printing at production scale is one of the hardest unsolved problems in manufacturing, and geometry processing sits at the center of it. At Freeform, the geometry pipeline is not a preprocessor that hands off to a printer, but the intelligence that drives the entire machine. Our stack spans GPU-accelerated mesh processing, physics-informed simulation, real-time toolpath generation, and closed-loop geometric feedback during the print itself. NVIDIA invested in Freeform because of it.  In this role, you will own core systems at the intersection of 3D geometry and real-time GPU compute. If you have spent your career making geometry fast and correct, whether in game engines, real-time rendering, visual effects, or simulation, the underlying structure of the problems will feel familiar. What will not feel familiar is the stakes: your geometry runs on machines building real parts out of metal, at a factory-scale that’s never been done before. You will work across the full stack, from mathematical geometry representations to the GPU kernels that transform them, alongside engineers who bring the same depth of thinking to every problem.  We look for engineers who have gone deep on hard geometry problems and are ready to do that work where the output is physical.  Responsibilities: * Develop GPU-accelerated algorithms for mesh deformation, procedural geometry generation, parallel spatial queries, and volumetric space-filling operations  * Collaborate with simulation and hardware engineers to integrate physics-based and sensor models into the GPU compute pipeline * Partner with data scientists to integrate neural geometry processing and machine learning models for print quality prediction and in-process optimization * Design and develop the end-to-end print preparation pipeline, from CAD ingestion and mesh repair through GPU-parallelized slicing, adaptive toolpath generation, and hardware handoff, for a production-scale metal 3D printing system * Work with backend software engineers to architect the interface between the geometry processing stack and the metal 3D printing hardware layer * Build production automation solutions across the geometry processing pipeline, including automated defect detection and in-process geometry correction * Develop integrations with third-party CAD and CAM software APIs, with a focus on robust and maintainable interchange pipelines * Write production-quality C++ across the geometry stack: performant, well-tested, and built to last in a real manufacturing environment * Generate and maintain documentation of designed software and integrated systems Basic Qualifications: * Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, applied mathematics, or similar AND 5+ years of software development experience, OR Master’s degree in aforementioned fields with 2+ years of experience, OR PhD in aforementioned fields  * Proficiency with C++  * Experience using GPUs for geometry processing  Preferred Skills and Experience: * MS or PhD in computer science, computational geometry, applied mathematics, or related field highly preferred * Familiarity with neural geometry processing or learned representations (e.g. neural fields, point cloud networks, diffusion-based mesh generation)  * Experience interfacing with CAD and CAM software APIs (understanding of CAD import)  * Experience working with Signed Distance Field (SDF) representations of geometry  * Experience with spatial data structures and GPU-friendly geometry representations (e.g. BVHs, octrees, tetrahedral meshes, volumetric grids) * Experience with cloud-based geometry processing or distributed compute workloads Location: * Based in Hawthorne, our vertically integrated facility brings technology development, R&D, and production together under one roof. We operate at the center of LA’s deep tech ecosystem, surrounded by some of the most ambitious hardware innovation happening anywhere in the country. * Our fast-paced, cross-functional environment is built on close collaboration, and as such, this role requires full-time onsite presence (five days a week), with very limited exceptions. Why Freeform? * We are building technology that did not exist five years ago and will define how metal parts are made for the next fifty. The geometry team is at the center of that, and this role is a chance to do the most consequential geometry processing work of your career.  * We have an inclusive and diverse culture that values collaboration, learning, and making deliberate data-driven decisions.  * 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 * Compensation   * As a growing company, the salary range is intentionally wide as we determine the most appropriate package for each individual taking into consideration years of experience, educational background, and unique skills and abilities as demonstrated throughout the interview process. Our intent is to offer a salary that is commensurate for the company’s current stage of development and allows the employee to grow and develop within a role.  * In addition to the significant stock option package, the estimated salary range for this role is $135,000-$250,000. The upper end of the range is reserved for individuals who demonstrate exceptional experience, deep domain mastery, and a proven history of high performance and impact. * Freeform is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values diversity; employment with Freeform is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.