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Our 3D printing technology powers innovation at more than 50,000 industry leaders worldwide, including Apple, Google, Tesla, New Balance, and NASA. Together, we’re helping everyone design, prototype, and manufacture faster than ever before.\nWe’re a team of hands-on builders, engineers, and innovators reinventing how the world makes physical things. If you’re ready to shape the future of fabrication, come build it with us.\nWhy this role\nMost specialty materials are still made the way they have been for decades: weigh, mix in a tank, filter, fill. We think there’s a better way to make them, and we want you to invent it.\nOur R&D team creates innovative materials that push the limits of 3D printing, and we need proven manufacturing processes to produce our materials at scale and bring them to market. This isn’t a traditional process engineering role. You won’t be tuning existing equipment or running scale-up checklists. 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We need someone who understands how materials behave at scale and can’t stop thinking of better ways to make them.\nYou might currently be called: Manufacturing Technology Engineer, Advanced Manufacturing Engineer, R&D Engineer, Innovation Engineer, Research Engineer, Technology Development Engineer, or Process Development Engineer.\nWhat you’ll own\nAn innovation roadmap for how Formlabs makes materials: where new technology could raise quality, cut cost, or let us make materials we can’t make today\nNew manufacturing approaches from idea to plant floor: concept, bench experiments, prototype equipment, pilot runs, and the business case to deploy\nCo-invention with R&D, so new materials and the methods that make them are designed together from day one\nScouting existing technologies that will improve cost throughput quality and bringing the best ideas into Formlabs\nHanding proven innovations to the plant team, with the documentation and training to run them\nProving out at least one new manufacturing technology at bench or pilot scale, with a clear case for production\nAbout you\n4+ years building new manufacturing technology in chemicals, coatings, adhesives, inks, pharma, advanced materials, or a similar field, in industry\nA track record of introducing new manufacturing methods that has impacted product quality, cost or throughput \nStrong grounding in the science of making materials: mixing, heat and mass transfer, and rheology of viscous or filled fluids \nYou move comfortably from first-principles thinking to a bench prototype to a pilot run\nYou use designed experiments and data to tell good ideas from great ones, and you can build the business case for the one worth deploying\nStrong communication with cross-functional stakeholders\nBS, MS, or PhD in chemical engineering, materials science, mechanical engineering, polymer science, or a related field\nBonus skills\nContinuous manufacturing or process intensification\nInline sensors, process analytical technology (PAT), or chemometrics\nMachine learning or AI applied to manufacturing data\nUV-curable or other photoreactive materials\nPolymer powder handling, for future SLS materials work\nModeling, automation, or data tools (Python, COMSOL, PLC/DCS)\nOur Benefits & Perks:\nRobust equity program to build future wealth through RSUs\nComprehensive healthcare coverage (Medical, Dental, Vision)\n401K matching and access to financial advisors\nGenerous paid Parental Leave (up to 16 weeks)\nTenure-based paid Sabbatical Leave (up to 6 weeks)\nFlexible Out of Office Plan - Take time when you need it\nAmple on-site parking & pre-tax commuter benefits\nHealthy on-site lunches, snacks, beverages, & treats\nRegular sponsored professional development opportunities\nMany opt-in culture events across our diverse community\nAnd of course… unlimited 3D prints\nWe are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. 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