Staff Application Engineer

Responsibilities

• Educate and influence customers on Design for DLS best practices and design for manufacturability, including printer operation, materials, design guidelines, software, and post-processing.
• Guide customers through design, aesthetic, and technical tradeoffs involving cost and manufacturability.
• Lead application development and optimization across design, file preparation, printing, post-processing, finishing, and quality/validation.
• Manage customer benchmarks, prototypes, bridge applications, and production applications from concept through production readiness.
• Own technical outcomes, timelines, milestones, risk mitigation, and technical strategy for assigned applications.
• Evaluate product-market fit, technical readiness, cost-model viability, scalability, and operational risk; provide recommendations to sales and leadership.
• Translate customer requirements into actionable input for Software, Product, Materials, and Hardware teams, and validate solutions.
• Define test methods, evaluate solutions, iterate on feedback, and make recommendations using hypothesis-driven approaches.
• Create requirements, statements of work, standard operating procedures, decision logs, workflows, templates, and checklists.
• Mentor and coach Application Engineers through design reviews and informal training.
• Identify and recommend improvements to tools, workflows, and processes.

Requirements

• BS or MS in Mechanical Engineering or a related discipline, focused on product development or product design.
• 8+ years of product development or product design experience, including shipping products from concept through production readiness.
• Strong proficiency with CAD and CAE software such as SolidWorks, NX, CATIA, Magics, Rhino, and Grasshopper.
• Working knowledge of Carbon’s Design Engine or similar lattice design software, including defining and debugging repeatable workflows.
• Experience with Python, Grasshopper, visual coding, scripting, computational design, and automation of design-to-production workflows.
• Working knowledge of FEA, structural loading, and plastic material properties.
• Familiarity with injection molding, urethane casting, CNC machining, design for manufacturing, and physical prototyping.
• Experience with cost models, scalability assessments, and technical and operational risk tradeoffs.
• Strong cross-functional program ownership and execution skills.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and coach others.
• Excellent verbal, graphical, and technical communication skills.
• Proficiency with Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Google Suite.

Compensation

• Annual compensation range: $182,400–$273,600 USD.
• Target midpoint: $228,000 USD.
• Eligible employees may receive equity, benefits, and paid time off.