Alloy Enterprises

About us

Alloy Enterprises is transforming how aluminum parts are made. Aluminum will be part of the electrification journey of everything that moves, and flexible, on-demand, and cost-competitive fabrication will be essential to this transition. Automotive, aerospace, and industrial equipment need to be lighter, and fabrication methods need to keep pace with the speed of innovative new designs. Our novel, scalable, full-stack additive manufacturing process disrupts the multi-year lead time, process limitations, and high up-front cost of aluminum casting.

“Alloy Enterprises is fundamentally transforming aluminum manufacturing for transportation, much like Carnegie Steel did for the railroad 100 years ago. Now is the time for us to bring scalable additive aluminum manufacturing to mass production and accelerate our society’s ability to electrify everything that moves.” - Alison Forsyth, CEO

Founded in early 2020, the company has raised $38M and is generating revenue with our pilot manufacturing facility. For the first time, on-demand fabrication meets the cost and scale of casting in an exploding $102B market – largely driven by electrification. We are now building out our team and production fab facilities to meet customer demand. If you are a sleeve-rolling builder who sets their bar high and enjoys thinking out loud in a collaborative and inclusive working environment, we’d love to hear from you.

About the role

Reporting to the Director of Applications and Technology Development, the Senior Simulation Engineer will contribute to enabling Alloy to use its novel manufacturing process to create best-in-class thermal-fluid components. They will support the simulation work of the applications team and develop and demonstrate new design strategies for high-performance geometries.

What you’ll do

• Lead and execute R&D activities to differentiate thermal-fluid components made by Alloy’s process including demonstration of testing for new geometries
• Review relevant academic and industrial literature to incorporate learnings into cutting-edge solutions for Alloy’s applications
• Manage technical risk and identify key aspects of a solution that need to be de-risked first
• Do hand calculations, select appropriate correlation coefficients, and build simple scaling models for different applications
• Provide guidance and input on customer development projects
• Develop playbooks on various applications
• Develop and improve best practices around simulation workflows
• Publish white papers on Alloy’s design capabilities

What you’ll bring

• Masters or PhD in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or other relevant field
• 4+ years of industry experience
• Expertise in thermal-fluid simulation and analysis; including but not limited to comfort with selecting turbulence closures, running mesh refinement studies, estimating model error, extracting dimensionless correlation coefficients from simulations
• Experience with a wide range of reference literature on calculating thermal and fluid behavior of components
• Ability to deliver results in a quickly evolving environment, delivering estimates for thermal performance of a design within a few days to accelerate customer-facing projects
• Familiarity with design engineering work specifically, an understanding of what an engineering design process looks like and how their work informs that process

Benefits:

• Flexible paid time off and nine company holidays
• Medical, dental, and vision, including dependency coverage
• 401k with 3% employer contribution, options for pre or post-tax
• Stock options
• All employees are eligible for paid parental leave regardless of gender identity or expression
• Career advancement opportunities in a high-growth environment
• Good coffee, regular happy hours, and weekly team lunches

Additional requirements

This position will require access to information subject to control under U.S. export control laws and regulations, including the Export Administration Regulations (“EAR”) and International Traffic in Arms Regulations (“ITAR”). Please note that any offer for employment will be conditioned on authorization to receive controlled items without sponsorship for an export license. 

Regarding Sponsorship

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa, including H-1B, H-1C, H-2A, H-2B, H-3, F-1 or OPT at this time.

Equal employment opportunity

We are committed to creating an equitable and inclusive environment for all our employees and seek to build a team that reflects the diversity of the people we hope to serve with our products. We are proud to be an equal-opportunity employer.