Senior Powertrain Engineer

Divergent
Torrance, California, United StatesPosted 26 March 2026

Job Description

Divergent is a technology company that has architected, invented, built, and commercialized an end-to-end factory system called the Divergent Adaptive Production System (DAPS) that comprehensively uses machine learning to optimally engineer, additively manufacture, and flexibly assemble complex integrated vehicle structures and subsystems. Products created using DAPS are superior in performance, lower in cost, rapidly customizable to meet mission and customer-specific requirements, faster to market, and scalable on demand to high volume production. Divergent is a qualified Tier 1 supplier to global automotive OEMs, and Divergent is now expanding to support mission critical needs in the Aerospace and Defense sector. Join us to be a part of this transformative journey, where your impact will shape the future of technology and production. Divergent is a technology company that has architected, invented, built, and commercialized an end-to-end factory system called the Divergent Adaptive Production System (DAPS) that comprehensively uses machine learning to optimally engineer, additively manufacture, and flexibly assemble complex integrated vehicle structures and subsystems. Products created using DAPS are superior in performance, lower in cost, rapidly customizable to meet mission and customer-specific requirements, faster to market, and scalable on demand to high volume production. Divergent is a qualified Tier 1 supplier to global automotive OEMs, and Divergent is now expanding to support mission critical needs in the Aerospace and Defense sector. Join us to be a part of this transformative journey, where your impact will shape the future of technology and production. Purpose Divergent aims to revolutionize industrial manufacturing in the aerospace and defense industries through our DAPS (Divergent Adaptive Production System) technology. Our patented production system incorporates Nodes™ – 3D-printed metal connectors – with lightweight materials to create strong and efficient complex structures. Divergent’s technology eliminates tooling and drives radical innovation, capital reduction, and sustainability in vehicle manufacturing. Divergent is seeking a skilled and motivated engineer to support the next generation of industry-leading aerospace vehicle development. We’re committed to transforming powertrain components away from traditional manufacturing by using new materials and new technologies.  To do this, we need a forward-looking and innovative engineer who will help shape the future of powerplant and power transmission design. The Senior Powertrain Engineer will be responsible for product development, from program kick-off to start of production. You are accountable for trades studies of initial concepts through the final released design of a system, incorporating design elements like valves, gears, shafts, airfoils, bearings and lubrication systems based upon parametric analysis. You will deliver detailed designs substantiated with FEA models and simulation for rotating components, gear trains and lubrication systems. Finally, you will supervise the testing and qualification of the powertrain system. You must collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand manufacturing/design capabilities and limitations and to ensure proposed design changes can be efficiently produced and assembled. You will also act as technical liaison between Divergent and its customers and suppliers, to ensure product requirements are concurred, tracked and achieved. The Role Create and evaluate powertrain conceptual (layout) designs. Create and manage CAD designs of powertrain components, including gears, shafts, bearings and lubrication elements. Build up and analyze FE Models of gears, shafts, bearings and gearbox lubrication systems. Design geartrain components for manufacturability. Present design summary/reports efficiently at meetings and to other relevant engineers or external parties. Create, refine, and execute new techn ... (truncated, view full listing at source)
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