R&D Engineer, Formlabs
Dec 2026 & May 2027 Graduates
$90-130k
+ RSUs
3-5 days a week in office (Somerville, MA)
High performance 3D Printers
Be an early applicant
High performance 3D Printers
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$90-130k
+ RSUs
3-5 days a week in office (Somerville, MA)
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To bring powerful and accessible fabrication tools into the creative hands of professionals around the world.
Role
Who you are
- If you are a systems thinker who enjoys working in a multi-disciplinary environment we would love you to join our R&D team as a 3D Printing R&D Engineer
- Questions assumptions and are willing to back it up with data
- Have experience with experiment design and data analysis to inform design decisions
- Able to design and build test fixtures for experiments
- A website or portfolio document showing off your current and past projects
- Understand programming and scientific computing, ideally Python or Matlab
- Familiar with mechanical design, mechatronics, and CAD modeling
- B.S., M.S., or PhD in an engineering field (all are welcome)
- Even if you don't check every box, but see yourself contributing, please apply. Help us build an inclusive community that will change the face of 3D printing
Desirable
- Familiarity with manufacturing, regulatory, or product standards and compliance in industries like healthcare, pharma, or life sciences
- Experience with 3D printing technologies and materials
What the job involves
- Our growing R&D team is a mix of mechanical, systems, and software engineers. We develop and maintain the Formlabs printing process
- Our team works closely with other engineering teams to research next-generation printers and materials. We use engineering, physics, and experimentation to turn ideas into beautiful and reliable products
- Create new 3D printing techniques - from developing new printer architectures to validating minute changes in Galvo control
- Opportunity to contribute to investigating new technologies
- Tackle complex and open-ended problems across multiple engineering disciplines
- Perform experiments and use the results to inform and develop improvements in software or hardware
- Evaluate current printer performance for areas for improvement
- Partner with other engineering teams to implement improvements to current products such as redesigning support structure algorithm based on experimental results
Our take
Formlabs' founders met at MIT in 2011, and set about creating a company that would disrupt the 3D printing market. While the majority of the industry was experiencing a crash, Formlabs managed to buck the trend by implementing additive manufacturing (stereolithography) to a desktop form factor.
While many 3D printing manufacturers have tried in vain to market their hardware to home users, Formlabs has maintained a laser-sharp focus on serving the needs of professionals and large-scale companies such as Coke and Sony. Striving to keep costs low while maintaining an optimal user experience, the company has sold well over 100,000 printers.
With considerable funding at its back, Formlabs has continued to develop new solutions such as a series of mass manufacturing solutions that enable its customers to dramatically increase their 3D printing output. As the largest supplier of professional SLA and SLS 3D printers in the world, the company is well set to further its position and achieve further global growth.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
May 2021
$150m
SERIES E
Aug 2018
$15m
SERIES D
Total funding: $250.8m
Company HQ
Ward Two, Somerville, MA
Leadership
Maxim Lobovsky
(Co-Founder & CEO)Prior to co-founding Formlabs in 2011, Maxim interned at NASA Robotics Academy. He was also a Research Assistant at Advanced Fiber Engineering, Cornell Computational Synthesis Lab, and MIT.
David Lakatos
(CPO)Alongside Formlabs, David is an Advisor at Shapr3D. Previously, he co-founded Sold, which was quickly acquired by Dropbox.
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