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SRE Engineer roles qualify for TN visa sponsorship under the USMCA treaty's Engineer category, provided your degree aligns with the systems reliability or software engineering function. Canadian citizens can apply at the border with no cap concerns, while Mexican citizens require consular processing with a limited annual allocation.
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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 Sre Engineer
Align your degree to the role description
TN visa eligibility for SRE roles depends on a direct match between your engineering or computer science degree and the job's core functions. A generic IT degree won't hold up if the role is framed as software or systems engineering.
Target employers with recent visa filings
Companies with recent visa filings for engineering roles have demonstrated experience with work visa sponsorship processes. Prioritize these employers when applying, since they're already familiar with supporting international candidates and the documentation requirements involved.
Get your offer letter engineering-specific
CBP officers approve TN status at the port of entry based on the offer letter. Make sure it explicitly states your title as SRE Engineer, references your engineering degree, and describes duties tied to reliability, systems design, or infrastructure, not just operations support.
Use Migrate Mate to find sponsoring employers
Searching broadly wastes time on employers unfamiliar with TN. Migrate Mate filters SRE Engineer roles by TN visa sponsorship history, so you reach decision-makers already set up to hire Canadian and Mexican professionals.
Prepare for Canadian border vs. consular processing differences
As a Canadian, you can apply for TN status directly at a U.S. port of entry with your offer letter and credentials in hand. Mexican citizens must schedule a consular interview and plan for longer lead times given the annual allocation.
Negotiate TN filing responsibilities before signing
Clarify in writing whether the employer will handle the offer letter preparation and any attorney coordination before you accept. Some employers expect you to manage documentation independently, which affects your timeline and compliance risk.
Sre Engineer TN Visa: Frequently Asked Questions
Does an SRE Engineer role qualify for TN visa status?
Yes, SRE Engineer roles typically qualify under the TN visa's Engineer category when the position requires and you hold a bachelor's degree or higher in engineering or computer science. The job duties must reflect genuine engineering functions, such as systems design, reliability architecture, or infrastructure automation, not purely administrative or IT support tasks.
How does TN visa sponsorship for SRE roles compare to H-1B?
TN has no annual lottery and no cap for Canadian citizens, which means you can start in the role as soon as the sponsorship paperwork is in order, often within days for Canadians applying at the border. H-1B visa requires entering a randomized lottery with roughly a 25 percent selection rate, then waiting until October 1 even if selected. For SRE roles where the degree-to-job match is clear, TN is a faster and more predictable path.
What documentation does an employer need to sponsor my TN visa as an SRE Engineer?
The employer needs to provide a detailed offer letter on company letterhead stating your job title, description of engineering duties, salary, and employment duration. You supply your degree credentials and any relevant licenses. No petition is filed with USCIS for TN status. Canadian citizens present these documents directly to CBP at a port of entry, while Mexican citizens use them at a U.S. consulate.
Where can I find SRE Engineer jobs that already support TN visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for Canadian and Mexican professionals seeking U.S. roles under TN and other USMCA-linked visas. Rather than filtering through general job listings where sponsorship status is unclear, Migrate Mate surfaces SRE Engineer roles from employers with recent visa filings and experience sponsoring work visas, saving you time and reducing the risk of pursuing employers who aren't set up to hire across the border.
Can I switch SRE Engineer employers while on TN status?
Yes, but TN status is employer-specific. You cannot simply transfer it. Your new employer must provide a fresh offer letter and you must either re-enter the U.S. at a port of entry with the new documentation or file a change of employer petition with USCIS. Plan for a brief gap between roles and confirm your new employer is prepared to move quickly to avoid a lapse in authorized status.