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How Protolabs hires

Truth index
B 83/100
Median time to fill
43 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
69%
Reposted roles
0%

Protolabs scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 13 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 69% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 43 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

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Overview

Protolabs is a Minnesota manufacturer founded in 1999 and listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Its digital factories produce machined, moulded and 3D printed parts from uploaded CAD files. The company delivers prototypes and low-volume production in days.

News

Award markets.ft.com 1 month ago
Protolabs Named to Business Insider's America's Most Innovative Businesses 2027 List - Company Announcement - FT.com
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News YahooFinance 3 months ago
Protolabs Accelerates Growth and Drone Innovation with On-Demand Manufacturing Capabilities
MINNEAPOLIS, July 07, 2026--Protolabs (NYSE: PRLB), the world's leading provider of digital manufacturing services, has expanded its manufacturing capabilities to support drone manufacturers amid the industry's rapid growth. Expanded capabilities span qui
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News YahooFinance 7 months ago
Protolabs to Attend 2026 Cantor Global Technology & Industrial Growth Conference on March 10, 2026
MINNEAPOLIS, March 04, 2026--Proto Labs, Inc. ("Protolabs") (NYSE: PRLB), the world's leading provider of digital manufacturing services, today announced that it will attend the Cantor Global Technology & Industrial Growth Conference on Mar. 10, 2026, in
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Press release Nasdaq 5 years ago
Protolabs Launches All-new Digital Quoting Platform in U.S.
Digital manufacturing leader Protolabs has launched its new digital quoting and design analysis platform to its U.S.- based customers, following a successful launch late last year to its European-based users. Twenty years later we' ve reinvented manufactu
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News 3D Printing Industry 5 years ago
Protolabs acquires 3D Hubs for $280M to expand manufacturing partner network
On-demand digital manufacturing provider Protolabs has acquired online manufacturing platform 3D Hubs for a total of $280 million, in a move that will see the creation of what the companies claim to be
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News protolabs 9 years ago
3D Printing Saves Boeing Millions in Costs
Boeing announces partnership with Norsk Titanium to produce 3D-printed, titanium parts for the new 787 Dreamliner.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Protolabs over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
92
Postings analysed
49
Stack modernity
73/100AI adopter
Languages
Python20%
SQL16%
C#10%
JavaScript8%
Frameworks & libraries
Playwright8%
Selenium6%
Angular2%
Lightning Web Components2%
Databases
PostgreSQL6%
MySQL4%
Redis2%
Cloud & platforms
AWS18%
Azure18%
Azure DevOps16%
Kubernetes16%
AI & ML
LLM10%
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Full Protolabs tech stack 92 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$82k
Typical range
$42k – $183k
Open positions
47
32 Jobs
Junior 25%
Middle 25%
Senior 37.5%
Staff 9.4%
Architect 3.1%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Junior 8 $90k $62k – $107k
Middle 8 $72k $50k – $161k
Senior 12 $116k $48k – $161k
Staff 3 $127k $126k – $139k
Architect 1 $183k $183k
Highest paying role Global Supply Chain Director $183k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Protolabs By role, level and city, against the market · 47 jobs with pay

Growth

Hiring Momentum
76/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
56
13 opened / 44 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
43 days
faster than 31% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Industrial Engineering
24% ▼
Field & Service
17% ▲
Administrative
9% ▲
HR
8% ▼
Operations
8% ▲
Customer Success
8%
Actively hiring for Industrial Engineering (+6 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added Prompt Engineering to stack Sep 2026
New location: Hyderabad Sep 2026
Added .NET to stack Sep 2026
Added Weights & Biases to stack Sep 2026
Added TensorFlow to stack Sep 2026
Added Scikit-learn to stack Sep 2026
Added PyTorch to stack Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack Sep 2026
Added Karpenter to stack Sep 2026
Added A/B Testing to stack Sep 2026
New location: Maple Plain Sep 2026
New location: Brooklyn Park Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
9
Hiring now
9
Countries
4
Busiest office
Maple Plain
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Maple Plain United States
HQ
13 open roles 19 posted in 90 days 23% engineering 1000-5000 est. staff $120k Avg Salary
hires for QA, Finance, Operations
seen since Dec 2025 job postings
Nashua United States
Plant / site
12 open roles 12 posted in 90 days 1000-5000 est. staff $66k Avg Salary
hires for Field & Service, Industrial Engineering, Administrative
seen since Feb 2026 job postings
Brooklyn Park United States
Plant / site
10 open roles 16 posted in 90 days 1000-5000 est. staff $66k Avg Salary
hires for Field & Service, Education, Industrial Engineering
seen since Dec 2025 job postings
Rosemount United States
Plant / site
6 open roles 8 posted in 90 days 500-1000 est. staff $87k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Field & Service, Administrative
seen since Feb 2026 job postings
Hyderabad India
Regional office
5 open roles 8 posted in 90 days 500-1000 est. staff
hires for Industrial Engineering, HR, Sales
seen since Jun 2026 job postings
Plymouth United States
Plant / site
4 open roles 7 posted in 90 days 500-1000 est. staff $80k Avg Salary
hires for Field & Service, Administrative, Operations
seen since May 2026 job postings
Amsterdam Netherlands
Sales office
3 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 500-1000 est. staff
hires for Leadership, Sales, Operations
seen since Jun 2026 job postings
Telford United Kingdom
Engineering / R&D
1 open roles 5 posted in 90 days 200-500 est. staff
hires for Customer Success
seen since Jun 2026 job postings
Raleigh United States
Plant / site
1 open roles 6 posted in 90 days 200-500 est. staff $127k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering
seen since Aug 2026 job postings

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