Mechanical Engineer, Formlabs
3-5 days a week in office (Somerville, MA)
High performance 3D Printers
Job no longer available
High performance 3D Printers
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
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
- Want to build a precision tool that is beautiful inside and out
- Enjoy the gritty details of part design, material selection, and manufacturing techniques
- Craft elegant designs that function with efficiency and simplicity
- Use 3D CAD (Solidworks/Onshape) to design components, produce drawings, and build assemblies
- Are familiar with a variety of manufacturing techniques including injection molding and sheet metal fabrication
- Can prototype your own designs in our well equipped shop
- Have experience with the full product development cycle
- Can communicate seamlessly with vendors and suppliers across the globe
- Are hands-on and willing to cross discipline boundaries to solve a problem
Desirable
- Programming skills (Python)
- Experience working with a contract manufacturer
- PLM/document control systems
- Industrial design
What the job involves
- Prototype new mechanisms, test materials, and research 3D printing challenges
- Analyze, test, validate and iterate on electro-mechanical systems
- Create detailed designs in CAD and well-specified, accurate drawings
- Collaborate with our Global Sourcing and Manufacturing Teams to bring designs from prototype to mass production
- Push the capabilities of 3D printing
- Strive to maximize customer value
- Engineer the most amazing desktop 3D printer on the market
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
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
May 2021
$150m
SERIES E
Aug 2018
$15m
SERIES D
Total funding: $250.8m
Company benefits
- Robust equity program to build future wealth through RSUs
- Comprehensive healthcare coverage (Medical, Dental, Vision)
- Low cost fund options in our 401K and access to advisors
- Generous paid Parental Leave (up to 16 weeks)
- Tenure-based paid Sabbatical Leave (up to 6 weeks)
- Flexible Out of Office Plan – Take time when you need it
- Ample on-site parking & pre-tax commuter benefits
- Healthy on-site lunches, snacks, beverages, & treats
- Regular sponsored professional development opportunities
- Many opt-in culture events across our diverse community
- And of course… unlimited 3D prints
Company values
- Autonomy - We leave space for people to do their best, and take initiative to chart their own career course
- Cutting Edge - We’re building things that haven’t been built before, so we can push the edge of what’s possible
- Results - We dream big, but our focus on getting things done is what drives us forward
- Curiosity - We are always asking why to push ideas and actions beyond the status quo
Company HQ
Ward Two, Somerville, MA
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Leadership
Maxim Lobovsky
(CEO)Interned at NASA Robotics Academy, and was a Research Assistant at MIT before co-founding Formlabs.
Natan Linder
(Chairman)Co-founder and CEO at Tulip, and Member of the Board Of Directors at Volta Labs. Also an Advisory Board Member at RightHand Robotics. Previously a Research Assistant MIT Media Lab.
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