Overview In this role you drive manufacturing readiness for new products by partnering with R&D to move from prototype to mass production. You optimize design for manufacturing, establish production readiness with global teams and suppliers, and implement robust process control. Your work supports reliable, high-quality electromechanical systems at scale, shaping how Formlabs brings innovative products to life. You will solve cross-functional challenges and contribute to continuous improvement across the supply chain.
Compensation / Benefits- Robust equity program (RSUs)
- Comprehensive healthcare
- 401K matching
- Parental Leave (up to 16 weeks)
- Sabbatical Leave (up to 6 weeks)
- Flexible Out of Office Plan
Responsibilities- Drive manufacturing technical readiness on NPI projects, partnering with R&D from prototype through project completion
- Lead DFM and DFA activities to support product, system, and process design
- Establish industrialization and production readiness with global teams, CMOs, and suppliers
- Ensure critical product specs are met through process control points
- Collaborate cross-functionally on complex engineering and operational challenges
- Drive process control and issue prevention with tools, equipment, and methods to ensure reliability and quality
- Pursue optimization and continuous improvement using factory data to analyze process capabilities at suppliers and contract manufacturers
Key requirements- B.S. in Engineering (mechanical, manufacturing, mechatronics, systems, or related)
- Willingness to travel internationally and domestically 10-20%
- 1-3 years in Design and Manufacturing Engineering for complex NPI product industrialization
- 1-3 years experience with global contract manufacturers in bringing electromechanical systems from prototype to mass production
- Independent, strategic thinker with strong execution and detail orientation
- Excellent presentation, written and verbal communication skills
- strong communication
- cross-functional collaboration
- strategic yet tactical execution
- Design for Manufacturing (DFM)
- Design for Assembly (DFA)
- process control
