Divergent is building the new industrial age. Every day, our teams design, manufacture, and assemble advanced systems for some of the world’s most demanding industries. Our integrated engineering and manufacturing platform transforms complex designs into production-ready solutions, helping customers move faster, build smarter, and deliver critical systems when they matter most. Divergent is a qualified Tier 1 supplier to global automotive OEMs and supports leading U.S. aerospace and defense companies.
Join us and help push the boundaries of what can be built.
Machine Development operates at the intersection of complex hardware, software, manufacturing, and operations, where successful execution depends on many teams moving together against shared technical and business outcomes. The Staff Technical Program Manager exists to create the clarity, structure, and operating discipline needed to make that happen.
This role drives the integrated execution of Machine Development programs by translating complex and often ambiguous objectives into clear plans, priorities, ownership, milestones, and decisions. The Staff TPM connects work across functions, ensures risks and issues are surfaced and resolved early, and gives teams and leaders the visibility needed to understand performance and make informed tradeoffs.
Success in this role means Machine Development executes more predictably, problems are identified and closed faster, cross-functional teams stay aligned, and the processes and operating systems supporting execution become increasingly scalable and effective over time.
The Role- Own integrated program schedules, roadmaps, milestones, dependencies, risks, and high-level development & execution plans.
- Identify and actively manage program risks, issues, blockers, and dependencies.
- Build and continuously improve scalable business processes, operating cadences, tools, and program controls.
- Drive cross-functional execution including triage and coordination such as change requests.
- Drive action-item ownership, escalation, decision-making, and closure.
- Enable successful change and configuration management.
- Provide clear program status, performance, tradeoffs, and recovery plans to stakeholders and leadership.
- Support coordination of technical and operational readiness for major releases, builds, qualifications, and deployments.
- Lead ad hoc, high-priority initiatives that require additional structure, coordination, or cross-functional execution.
- Ability to lawfully access information and technology that is subject to US export controls
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related technical field.
- 6+ years of technical program, engineering, manufacturing, or product development experience.
- Demonstrated ability to manage complex, cross-functional technical programs.
- Strong program planning, scheduling, risk management, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to translate ambiguous technical problems into clear plans, owners, milestones, and decisions.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication with technical teams and senior leadership.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced hardware development and manufacturing environment.
- Ability to work additional hours as required by the business.
- Ability to spend time in laboratory, manufacturing, and production environments as required.
- Experience with complex capital equipment, industrial automation, additive manufacturing, aerospace, or advanced manufacturing.
- Experience managing reliability, qualification, commissioning, or production-readiness programs.
- Experience with engineering change control, RCCA, configuration management, and product lifecycle processes.
- Working knowledge of Jira, PLM, ERP, MES, requirements management, and program-management tools.
- Demonstrated ability to establish new processes and operating systems in rapidly evolving organizations.
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What We Offer:
- Holistic Compensation Package: Enjoy a world-class compensation package that includes a competitive salary, equity plan, and discretionary results-based incentive bonus opportunities, ensuring you're truly valued for your contributions.
- Wellness and Time Off: Embrace a healthy lifestyle with paid vacation, sick time, and company holidays, including a year-end shutdown to recharge. We support growing families with paid parental leave, recognizing the importance of bonding time.
- Comprehensive Health and Wellness: Prioritize your well-being with our comprehensive health and wellness benefits, offering both HMO and Premium PPO options. Additionally, benefit from company-sponsored life insurance and short and long-term disability coverage for peace of mind.
- Investment in Growth: We're committed to your professional development. Take advantage of reimbursement opportunities for learning and development initiatives, empowering you to continuously expand your skill set and reach peak performance.
- Collaborative and High-Performing Environment: Join our collaborative, dynamic, and high-performing team within a fast-paced, mission-driven company. Together, we're disrupting the traditional manufacturing industry, fostering innovation, and integrating people and technology to reduce our footprint.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Divergent is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or veteran status, or any other applicable state or federal protected characteristic. Divergent provides affirmative action in employment for qualified Individuals with Disabilities and Protected Veterans in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act.
EEO Poster
In order to adjust to changes in our business, it may become necessary to add, remove or modify certain duties and responsibilities, or to reassign you to another job position. From time to time you may be asked to work on special projects or to assist with other work. Your cooperation and assistance in performing such additional work is expected.
E-Verify: Right to Work
Our company participates in E-Verify. E-Verify is a program that electronically confirms a candidate’s eligibility to work in the United States after completing the Employment Eligibility Verification (Form I-9). The information provided on the Form I-9 is compared to the records contained in the Social Security Administration and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) databases. This helps employers verify the identity and employment eligibility of newly hired employees.
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Pursuant to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance (FCIHO), we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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Skills Required
- Ability to lawfully access information and technology subject to US export controls
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or a related technical field
- 6+ years of technical program, engineering, manufacturing, or product development experience
- Experience managing complex, cross-functional technical programs
- Strong program planning, scheduling, risk management, and problem-solving skills
- Ability to translate ambiguous technical problems into clear plans, owners, milestones, and decisions
- Exceptional written and verbal communication with technical teams and senior leadership
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced hardware development and manufacturing environment
- Ability to work additional hours as required by the business
- Ability to spend time in laboratory, manufacturing, and production environments as required
- Experience with complex capital equipment, industrial automation, additive manufacturing, aerospace, or advanced manufacturing
- Experience managing reliability, qualification, commissioning, or production-readiness programs
- Experience with engineering change control, RCCA, configuration management, and product lifecycle processes
- Working knowledge of Jira, PLM, ERP, MES, requirements management, and program-management tools
- Ability to establish new processes and operating systems in rapidly evolving organizations
Divergent Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Divergent and has not been reviewed or approved by Divergent.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered competitive to strong for many engineering and leadership roles, with market-competitive to above‑market ranges cited in postings. Feedback suggests cash compensation is often a relative strength versus other facets.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare is described as comprehensive and very good, with HMO/PPO options plus company-paid life and disability coverage. Feedback highlights peace of mind from medical coverage as part of total compensation.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid vacation, sick time, company holidays, a year‑end shutdown, and paid parental leave are repeatedly listed. Feedback suggests this time‑off setup is solid for a hardware/advanced manufacturing context.
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What We Do
Divergent aims to revolutionize the auto industry through 3D printing. Our patented production system incorporates Nodes - 3D printed metal connectors - with lightweight materials to create strong and efficient complex structures. Divergent 3D's technology eliminates tooling and drives radical innovation, capital reduction, and sustainability in vehicle manufacturing. We put a powerful new set of tools into the hands of creative innovators, enabling success in the auto industry for a new generation. Our engineering prototype, Blade, is the world's first 3D printed supercar. We're hiring! Please apply directly to the job posting or email directly: [email protected]
