Electrical Engineer – 3D Printing Hardware

About the role

To reinvent an industry, you have to build the best team. Join Formlabs if you want to bring groundbreaking professional 3D printers to the desktop of every designer, engineer, researcher, and artist in the world.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the electronics design of 3D printing and related products.
• Full‑stack design from concept to prototype and mature the design to mass production.
• Make EE architecture decisions and trade‑offs while balancing cost, reliability and flexibility.
• Perform engineering calculations and experiments to ensure design soundness.
• Design wired and wireless connectivity options such as Wi‑Fi, Bluetooth and Ethernet.
• Develop designs involving physical sensors and actuators.
• Write basic code to test functionality of designs.
• Prototype, validate, debug and rework boards hands‑on.

Required profile

• Minimum 2 years of experience designing and debugging electronics.
• Electrical engineering generalist comfortable with analog and digital design, PCB layout, validation and debugging techniques.
• Basic familiarity with embedded systems (microcontroller firmware in C/C++, embedded Linux) or another software‑engineering discipline.
• Familiarity with consumer‑electronics standards and certifications.
• Experience in the consumer electronics industry.
• Working knowledge of English for reading, writing documentation and presenting technical ideas.

Required skills

• Analog design
• Digital design
• PCB layout
• Embedded C programming
• Embedded Linux
• Wi‑Fi, Bluetooth and Ethernet connectivity
• Sensors and actuators integration