Materials & Process Engineer
General Matter · Los Angeles, CA
- Level
- Engineer
- Team
- Process
- Base pay
- $140k–$190k
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 5+ years
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- 30+ days ago
The role in 30 seconds
An engineer-level process role at General Matter (industrial) in Los Angeles, CA. Sit squarely at the interface of chemistry and hardware development, working shoulder-to-shoulder with design, manufacturing, and test engineering every day.
- They ask for
- 5+ years · degree required
- Tools it names
- Lean, Root cause, Welding, Casting, Painting / coating
- Base pay
- $140k–$190k
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How this role compares
Against 77 other live process postings in California.
- Base pay
- About 13% above similar roles
- Experience asked
- Typical (5+ years)
Typical $122k–$171k, from 45 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Root cause 47%
- Team leadership 27%
- Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ) 24%
- DOE 24%
- SPC 22%
- New product launch 21%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
Stands out: this posting asks for Casting, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.
At a glance
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How to get in at this plant
Five moves over a week or two. The first one takes ten minutes.
- 1
Pick 2–3 people on the Process team at General Matter
Engineers who joined in the last year or two reply the most. Use the team search on this page to find them.
- 2
Send a short, curious note
One real question about their work. No favors yet. Each person gets a different note, written for this role.
- 3
Turn a reply into a short call
Questions worth asking about this team:
- What does a normal week look like on your team?
- Is the work mostly new product launches or sustaining existing lines?
- How much time do you spend on the floor versus at a desk?
- How did you land the job? What stood out in your interviews?
- 4
Apply with someone vouching for you
If the call went well, ask whether they’d pass your résumé to the hiring manager. Send your résumé link, apply that day, and let them know.
- 5
Bring proof to the interview
One page of before-and-after numbers from projects you led: scrap, OEE, cycle time, cost. Plant managers hire on results.
This plant: General Matter in Los Angeles
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Qualifications
- ✓Bachelor's degree in materials engineering, metallurgical engineering, mechanical engineering, or a related engineering discipline
- ✓Evidence of exceptional ability (prior projects, portfolio of work, completed products, etc.)
- ✓5+ years of professional materials and/or process engineering experience
- ✓Hands-on experience taking materials and processes from selection through characterization, qualification, and into production
- ✓Working breadth across metallic material
- ✓Ability to obtain and maintain any required security clearance and access authorization
Preferred Skills and Experience
- ✓Master's degree or Ph.D. in materials engineering or a related field
- ✓Genuine generalist depth across metals (heat treatment, welding, forming, casting/forging, coatings).
- ✓Experience with failure analysis and characterization techniques, including fractography, metallography, SEM, FTIR, and mechanical testing
- ✓Experience serving as the interface between a chemistry or materials-science function and mechanical / hardware design and manufacturing teams
- ✓Familiarity with material qualification, design allowables, and relevant industry specifications (ASTM, ASME, AWS, NACE, etc.)
- ✓Experience in a fast-paced, resource-constrained startup or Skunkworks-style environment
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.
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About the Company
General Matter is enriching uranium in America.
Our goal is to design, build, and operate the world’s lowest-cost enrichment services in the United States.
Our mission is to restore America’s ability to produce nuclear fuel, fuel that will power AI, advanced manufacturing, critical industries, and the next generation of nuclear reactors.
Ultimately, our work will help power national ambitions and enable a high-energy society.
We were incubated by Founders Fund, like Anduril and Palantir before us, and are backed by top-tier investors. Our lean, world-class team of engineers and operators is applying a first-principles approach to solving the problem of nuclear fuel production.
We are a mission-driven company with a culture of urgency, accountability, and transparency.
Help us build a high-energy society by making the cleanest, safest form of baseload energy the most affordable.
About This Role
As our Materials & Process Engineer, you'll be the materials generalist those teams rely on: the person who owns how metals are selected, characterized, and qualified across our hardware, and who bridges our chemistry and materials-science work with the engineers designing, building, and testing real components.
This is an engineering role. You care about how a material behaves in service, under load, temperature, and demanding environments, and how to get it reliably into production, not about formulation for its own sake. You'll sit squarely at the interface of chemistry and hardware development, working shoulder-to-shoulder with design, manufacturing, and test engineering every day.
If you seek high impact and are excited by fast-paced, intense, Skunkworks-style projects, we encourage you to apply to join our team.
Materials & Process Development
- •Own the selection, characterization, and qualification of metallic materials across General Matter's hardware
- •Develop physical, mechanical, and thermal property data and design allowables to support hardware design decisions
- •Define and improve manufacturing and special processes for metals (e.g., heat treatment, welding).
- •Drive material and process choices that increase reliability and reduce cost as we move from development into production
Cross-Functional Interface
- •Serve as the connective tissue between chemistry / materials-science and hardware development, translating materials constraints into engineering decisions and back again
- •Partner daily with design, manufacturing, and test engineering to solve complex materials and process challenges on current and next-generation hardware
- •Provide technical review of drawings, specifications, and material
Characterization & Failure Analysis
- •Lead root-cause investigations using fractography, metallography, and mechanical testing
- •Establish characterization and inspection methods, including non-destructive evaluation, to control quality across metals
- •Build the data, documentation, and standards that let materials decisions scale with the company
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