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Site Reliability Engineer roles qualify for TN visa sponsorship under the USMCA treaty's Computer Systems Analyst category, which covers infrastructure, automation, and reliability work backed by a relevant bachelor's degree. Canadian citizens get same-day border approval; Mexican citizens apply at a U.S. consulate. No lottery, no cap for Canadians.
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Get Access To All JobsDivergent 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.
Purpose
As Staff Systems Reliability Engineer, you will lead the resolution of Divergent's complex and systemic machine reliability challenges across the additive manufacturing fleet. You will drive issues from escalation through root cause, engineering solution, and validated closure, while ensuring recurring failures are translated into durable technical improvements.
This role operates across Machine Development, Product Support Engineering, Service, Production, and engineering SMEs to convert fleet experience into stronger design requirements, engineering standards, validation strategies, and future machine capabilities. The Staff, Systems Reliability Engineer combines deep technical problem solving with systems thinking, cross-functional leadership, and the ability to drive reliability improvements throughout the product lifecycle.
The Role
Own Reliability Issue Intake, Triage, & Prioritization
- Screen, triage, group, organize, and support prioritization of engineering escalations based on fleet impact, recurrence, severity, and business need.
- Determine the appropriate engineering ownership and engage the required SMEs across Hardware, Automation & Controls, Materials & Processes, MDE, Software, and Supplier Quality.
- Drive clarity in clear ownership, priority, status, and next actions for open reliability issues.
- Ensure engineering escalations move quickly from identification to actionable investigation.
Coordinate & Support Root Cause & Corrective Action
- Drive and support coordination of complex and cross-functional RCCAs for recurring, systemic, and machine-level failures.
- Cultivate a problem-solving culture that looks beyond symptoms to identify and understand true root cause.
- Challenge assumptions, identify gaps in evidence, and ensure technical conclusions are supported by data.
Drive Engineering Issues Through Validated Closure
- Coordinate with SMEs to develop engineering solutions and drive actions through completion.
- Provide guidance and support evidence generation to demonstrate that a corrective action sufficiently resolves the issue.
- Ensure technical debt is closed by ensuring the identification of root cause, the development of engineering solutions, and the validation that solutions correct the issue.
- Track aging and closure of engineering actions.
Inform Future Product Design
- Support the generation of engineering standards and requirements generation throughout the product lifecycle informed by reliability learnings.
Technical Leadership & Engineering Excellence
- Serve as a technical leader for reliability problems that span multiple engineering disciplines and organizational boundaries.
- Create alignment when ownership or technical direction is unclear and drive teams toward decisions based on evidence.
- Communicate reliability risks, technical findings, tradeoffs, and recommended actions clearly to engineering and business leadership.
- Improve the mechanisms, metrics, and processes used to manage engineering reliability issues and create a sustainable reliability function.
Basic Qualifications
- Ability to lawfully access information and technology that is subject to US export controls.
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, Manufacturing Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 6+ years of experience in machine development, reliability engineering, manufacturing engineering, equipment engineering, or a related discipline.
- Demonstrated experience leading complex root cause investigations and corrective actions on electromechanical or automated equipment.
- Strong understanding of structured problem-solving methodologies such as RCCA, 8D, fault-tree analysis, FMEA, DOE, or equivalent methods.
- Experience working across mechanical, electrical, controls, software, manufacturing, and/or process engineering disciplines.
- Ability to interpret machine and production data, distinguish correlation from root cause, and translate findings into engineering action.
- Demonstrated ability to independently drive technically ambiguous, cross-functional problems through resolution.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate technical problems and risk to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience developing, sustaining, or improving complex industrial equipment or automated manufacturing systems.
- Experience with high-complexity capital equipment, laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing, industrial automation, robotics, additive manufacturing, semiconductor equipment, aerospace manufacturing, or similar systems.
- Experience owning reliability across a fleet of machines rather than resolving issues on a single piece of equipment.
- Experience using fleet health, downtime, utilization, failure-rate, or maintenance data to prioritize engineering work.
- Experience defining reliability requirements, validation criteria, or qualification strategies for new machine designs and engineering changes.
- Demonstrated technical leadership at the Staff level, including influencing teams and driving decisions without direct authority.
- Experience establishing or scaling reliability engineering processes, issue-management systems, engineering standards, or technical-debt reduction mechanisms.
Work Environment
- Onsite
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.
Eligibility to Work Poster (English) | Eligibility to Work Poster (Spanish)
Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance (FCIHO)
Pursuant to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance (FCIHO), we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
No agencies, no solicitations, and no calls please.
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.
Purpose
As Staff Systems Reliability Engineer, you will lead the resolution of Divergent's complex and systemic machine reliability challenges across the additive manufacturing fleet. You will drive issues from escalation through root cause, engineering solution, and validated closure, while ensuring recurring failures are translated into durable technical improvements.
This role operates across Machine Development, Product Support Engineering, Service, Production, and engineering SMEs to convert fleet experience into stronger design requirements, engineering standards, validation strategies, and future machine capabilities. The Staff, Systems Reliability Engineer combines deep technical problem solving with systems thinking, cross-functional leadership, and the ability to drive reliability improvements throughout the product lifecycle.
The Role
Own Reliability Issue Intake, Triage, & Prioritization
- Screen, triage, group, organize, and support prioritization of engineering escalations based on fleet impact, recurrence, severity, and business need.
- Determine the appropriate engineering ownership and engage the required SMEs across Hardware, Automation & Controls, Materials & Processes, MDE, Software, and Supplier Quality.
- Drive clarity in clear ownership, priority, status, and next actions for open reliability issues.
- Ensure engineering escalations move quickly from identification to actionable investigation.
Coordinate & Support Root Cause & Corrective Action
- Drive and support coordination of complex and cross-functional RCCAs for recurring, systemic, and machine-level failures.
- Cultivate a problem-solving culture that looks beyond symptoms to identify and understand true root cause.
- Challenge assumptions, identify gaps in evidence, and ensure technical conclusions are supported by data.
Drive Engineering Issues Through Validated Closure
- Coordinate with SMEs to develop engineering solutions and drive actions through completion.
- Provide guidance and support evidence generation to demonstrate that a corrective action sufficiently resolves the issue.
- Ensure technical debt is closed by ensuring the identification of root cause, the development of engineering solutions, and the validation that solutions correct the issue.
- Track aging and closure of engineering actions.
Inform Future Product Design
- Support the generation of engineering standards and requirements generation throughout the product lifecycle informed by reliability learnings.
Technical Leadership & Engineering Excellence
- Serve as a technical leader for reliability problems that span multiple engineering disciplines and organizational boundaries.
- Create alignment when ownership or technical direction is unclear and drive teams toward decisions based on evidence.
- Communicate reliability risks, technical findings, tradeoffs, and recommended actions clearly to engineering and business leadership.
- Improve the mechanisms, metrics, and processes used to manage engineering reliability issues and create a sustainable reliability function.
Basic Qualifications
- Ability to lawfully access information and technology that is subject to US export controls.
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, Manufacturing Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 6+ years of experience in machine development, reliability engineering, manufacturing engineering, equipment engineering, or a related discipline.
- Demonstrated experience leading complex root cause investigations and corrective actions on electromechanical or automated equipment.
- Strong understanding of structured problem-solving methodologies such as RCCA, 8D, fault-tree analysis, FMEA, DOE, or equivalent methods.
- Experience working across mechanical, electrical, controls, software, manufacturing, and/or process engineering disciplines.
- Ability to interpret machine and production data, distinguish correlation from root cause, and translate findings into engineering action.
- Demonstrated ability to independently drive technically ambiguous, cross-functional problems through resolution.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate technical problems and risk to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience developing, sustaining, or improving complex industrial equipment or automated manufacturing systems.
- Experience with high-complexity capital equipment, laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing, industrial automation, robotics, additive manufacturing, semiconductor equipment, aerospace manufacturing, or similar systems.
- Experience owning reliability across a fleet of machines rather than resolving issues on a single piece of equipment.
- Experience using fleet health, downtime, utilization, failure-rate, or maintenance data to prioritize engineering work.
- Experience defining reliability requirements, validation criteria, or qualification strategies for new machine designs and engineering changes.
- Demonstrated technical leadership at the Staff level, including influencing teams and driving decisions without direct authority.
- Experience establishing or scaling reliability engineering processes, issue-management systems, engineering standards, or technical-debt reduction mechanisms.
Work Environment
- Onsite
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.
Eligibility to Work Poster (English) | Eligibility to Work Poster (Spanish)
Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance (FCIHO)
Pursuant to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance (FCIHO), we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
No agencies, no solicitations, and no calls please.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding TN Visa Sponsorship as a Site Reliability Engineer
Frame your degree against SRE criteria
TN visa approval turns on whether your credential maps to Computer Systems Analyst. A degree in computer science, engineering, or information systems clears this cleanly. A business or unrelated degree needs a credential evaluation letter before you apply.
Target employers with recent visa filings
Before submitting applications, review employers with recent visa filings for Computer Systems Analyst roles. This demonstrates they have experience with work visa sponsorship and understand visa processes, making them better-positioned to support your TN petition.
Use Migrate Mate to find sponsoring employers
Search Migrate Mate to surface SRE roles from employers with recent visa filings and experience sponsoring work visas. Filter by role and location so you're targeting companies already equipped to handle visa sponsorship, not learning the process from scratch alongside you.
Request an offer letter that matches TN language
Your employer's offer letter must describe your duties in terms that align with the Computer Systems Analyst definition: systems design, reliability analysis, automation architecture. Vague language like 'general IT support' creates delays at the border or consulate.
Distinguish your SRE scope from DevOps or software roles
CBP officers sometimes question whether SRE work is software engineering rather than systems analysis. Your offer letter and resume should emphasize infrastructure reliability, incident response frameworks, and capacity planning over feature development or coding output.
Plan for Mexican citizens' consulate appointment timeline
Mexican nationals must schedule a consulate interview, which adds two to six weeks to the process depending on post availability. Factor this into your start-date negotiation with the employer so you're not committing to a date before your appointment is confirmed.
Site Reliability Engineer TN Visa: Frequently Asked Questions
Does Site Reliability Engineer qualify for a TN visa?
Yes, SRE roles qualify under the Computer Systems Analyst category in the USMCA TN schedule. The classification covers systems design, reliability engineering, automation architecture, and infrastructure analysis. Your offer letter must describe duties in those terms, and your degree must be in a relevant field such as computer science, engineering, or information systems.
How does TN visa sponsorship compare to H-1B for SRE roles?
TN has no annual lottery and no cap for Canadian citizens, so you can start within days of a border crossing approval rather than waiting months for an H-1B visa selection. Mexican citizens face a separate annual allocation but still avoid the lottery. For SRE roles, which map cleanly to Computer Systems Analyst, TN is generally faster and more predictable than H-1B for eligible nationals.
What documents does my employer need to prepare for TN sponsorship?
Your employer provides a signed offer letter describing your SRE duties in detail, your title, the duration of employment, and confirmation that you hold a qualifying degree. For Canadians, you present this offer letter at the U.S. border or port of entry—no petition filing is required. For Mexicans, your employer submits the offer letter to the U.S. consulate as part of your TN visa application.
Where can I find Site Reliability Engineer jobs with TN visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate lists SRE roles from employers with recent visa filings, so you're not guessing whether a company is experienced with visa sponsorship generally. Filtering by visa type saves significant time compared to screening general job listings and asking each employer individually whether they're willing to support your TN application.
Can I switch SRE employers while on a TN visa?
Yes, but TN status is tied to a specific employer and role. When you change jobs, your new employer must support a fresh TN filing before or at the time you start. Canadians can do this at a port of entry with a new offer letter. Mexicans need a new consulate appointment. You cannot carry your existing TN to a new employer the way H-1B portability works.