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Making that work reliably is an extraordinary engineering problem.\nThat’s what we do.\nAt Formlabs, we’re building 3D printers that are changing the way things get made. We have the smartest minds across every engineering discipline, and the technology they’re building is deployed at more than 50,000 industry leaders worldwide, including Apple, Google, Tesla, New Balance, and NASA.\nYour Impact: \nOur Manufacturing team makes 3D printing materials at scale, and Materials is one of the fastest-growing and most strategically important parts of our product portfolio. Our resins, the photopolymers that run on every Formlabs SLA printer, are formulated by our R&D team and produced in our own manufacturing facility.\nWe’re looking for a technically strong Supply Chain Engineer to own the raw-material supply chain that feeds our resin factory. You’ll manage a broad base of chemical suppliers for monomers, oligomers, photoinitiators, pigments, and additives, and you’ll work hand in hand with the factory to make sure the right materials arrive on time, at the right quality, and at the right cost. Because small changes in a raw material can change how a resin prints, this role requires real technical depth: you’ll need to understand the chemistry well enough to qualify suppliers, investigate quality issues, and partner with R&D on new formulations.\nThis is a role for an engineer who has worked close to production and wants ownership over the inputs that make it run.\nThe Job:\nRaw-Material Supplier Management\nOwn relationships with a broad base of chemical raw-material suppliers, running quarterly business reviews with scorecards for quality, delivery, cost, and responsiveness.\nManage volume allocation across dual- and multi-sourced inputs to balance cost, capacity, and risk.\nLead supplier qualification end-to-end, including technical assessments, site audits, sample evaluation with R&D and Quality, and maintenance of the Approved Supplier List.\nInvestigate raw-material quality issues to root cause, working with suppliers, Quality, and the factory on lot-to-lot variability, specifications, certificates of analysis, and corrective actions.\nFactory Partnership\nAct as the supply chain point of contact for the resin manufacturing facility, aligning raw-material supply with production plans, batch schedules, and inventory targets.\nSpend time on the factory floor to understand how incoming materials are received, stored, handled, and consumed, and use that knowledge to improve supply decisions.\nPartner with Planning and Manufacturing to set safety stock levels, manage shelf-life and storage constraints, and prevent line-down events.\nTechnical Sourcing & Alternate Materials\nFind and qualify new raw materials that enable R&D to develop new resin properties and products.\nBuild alternate-source strategies for critical inputs, especially single-source chemicals.\nManage the controlled ramp of qualified alternate materials into regular production, coordinating R&D, Manufacturing, Quality, and Supply Chain to ensure smooth transitions without changing product performance.\nSupport NPI by sourcing new inputs, setting cost targets, and ensuring supply readiness ahead of launch.\nCost & Risk\nBuild and maintain dashboards tracking current and forward-looking raw-material and resin COGS.\nDevelop should-cost models grounded in chemistry and process economics to guide negotiations and cost reduction.\nManage pricebooks and execute price change workflows.\nMaintain a live supply risk tracker covering single-source exposure, regulatory changes, supplier health, and market conditions for key chemical inputs, and lead mitigation planning.\nContinuous Improvement\nLead process improvement projects across the resin supply chain, from scoping through implementation.\nTurn manual, recurring work into scalable tools and processes.\nYou:\nBachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Materials Science, or a closely related field.\n5+ years of experience in chemical, specialty materials, polymer, coatings, adhesives, or consumer goods manufacturing, in roles such as supplier quality, process engineering, plant operations, or raw-material sourcing.\nDirect experience working with chemical raw-material suppliers, including qualification, specifications, and quality investigations.\nHands-on experience in or alongside a manufacturing plant, and a solid understanding of how raw-material variability affects production.\nStrong analytical skills: advanced Excel/Sheets required; SQL, Python, or Tableau a plus.\nComfortable owning recurring processes end-to-end and leading cross-functional projects with a high degree of autonomy.\nClear communicator with supplier technical teams, factory staff, R&D, and leadership.\nBonus Points\nExperience with photopolymers, UV-curable chemistry, or resin formulation.\nFamiliarity with chemical regulatory and compliance requirements such as REACH, TSCA, GHS, and SDS management.\nExperience with hazardous materials handling, storage, or transport.\nERP experience (e.g., NetSuite, SAP, Oracle).\nGraduate degree in engineering or chemistry.\nOur Benefits & Perks:\nUnlimited 3D printing with any Formlabs material on any Formlabs printer\nAn equity program that will let you build wealth through RSUs\nHealthcare coverage (medical, dental, vision) that includes a totally free employee-only plan, effective starting on your first day on the job\n401K matching with no vesting or tenure requirement\nGenerous parental leave (fully paid up to 16 weeks)\nFlexible time off so you can take time when you need it\nSix-week fully paid sabbatical after hitting tenure milestones (with the option to take an additional six weeks after that)\nFree on-site parking & pre-tax commuter benefits\nFree on-site lunch, snacks, beverages, treats, beer kegs, and employee-favorite local coffee and espresso\nSelf-driven professional development opportunities like conferences, trade shows, and hackathons\nOne-of-a-kind activities and events like monthly socials, the annual weekend summer camp, a can’t-miss company hackathon, and lots of other social opportunities\nYou don’t need to check every box to apply for a role. If you love working with hardware, spending time with smart people, solving hard problems, and winning, we want to hear from you.\nWe are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. \nOur Candidate AI Guidelines are availablehere. Please give them a read.\nCompensation:\nEquity is a big part of the compensation package at Formlabs - every employee receives equity because everyone contributes to building the company. We have a lot of confidence in the products we’re building and the impact we’re making, and you should too.\nBase pay is the other part of our compensation package, and it is carefully determined based on your skills, experience, and expected impact. 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