Global Sourcing Intern (Summer 2025)

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Somerville, MA
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3D Printing • Hardware • Other • Software • Design
Formlabs develops accessible Low Force Stereolithography (LFS) and selective laser sintering (SLS) 3D printers.
The Role
The Global Sourcing Intern will assist in sourcing materials, developing supplier strategies, and conducting market analysis to optimize the supply chain for Formlabs. This role involves collaboration with engineers and managing supplier relationships to improve product performance and reliability.
Summary Generated by Built In

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.

The components we source from all over the world are essential to the success of our products and company. We must carefully balance our need to lower costs while ensuring high performance, reliability, and abundant supply. You’ll work with our team of engineers to build relationships with suppliers and expand the capabilities of Formlabs to directly improve our products. If you are focused and inspired with a passion for streamlining and optimization, we want you as a Supply Chain Intern on our Global Sourcing Team.

Internship Term: Summer 2025 (June - August)
Commitment: 
Full-time
Location: 
Onsite in Somerville, MA

The Job:

  • Work directly with current and potential suppliers to keep our material pipeline flowing
  • Develop strategies to better optimize our suppliers for cost, quality, and supply resilience
  • Assist in supply chain planning for future product rollout
  • Conduct market analysis to provide deep and meaningful sourcing insights

You:

  • Have a technical or engineering background
  • Excited to source, contact, and evaluate potential suppliers for quality, reliability, cost and capacity
  • Able to work with a variety of teams, communicating effectively in-person and remotely
  • Organized and focused, able to handle concurrent conversations and projects, documenting progress along the way
  • Leadership experience and exposure to project management

Bonus Skills (Optional): 

  • Manufacturing and procurement experience
  • Advanced use of Microsoft Excel
  • Product development experience
  • Familiarity with part inspection and corrective action, i.e. Quality Control
  • Experience with the manufacturing technologies used to make our printer parts: injection molding, machining, sheet metal stamping, bending, and forming, SMT etc.

Internships at Formlabs give students the opportunity to create, build, solve, and discover in every area of our business. Come build your career and build the future of 3D printing. Internship perks include social events, networking opportunities, access to our fully-stocked kitchens and onsite lunches, and unlimited 3D printing!

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.  We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.  

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.

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The Company
HQ: Somerville, MA
750 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2011

What We Do

We’re a passionate team of engineers, designers, and problem-solvers. Started out of MIT in 2011, Formlabs now employs over 700 people across offices in Germany, Japan, China and Somerville, Massachusetts. We're committed to bringing powerful and accessible fabrication tools into the creative hands of professionals around the world.

Why Work With Us

We’ve built a team 700+ strong across the world, and still counting. We look for people with an insatiable curiosity, a willingness to question the status quo, and a high capacity to get things done.

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Hybrid Workspace

Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.

Building the 3D tools of the future is not an easy task. To reach this ambitious goal, we need to react fast, iterate, and make changes on the fly. Our teams observe a flexible hybrid, where we all aim to be in office 3 days/week when possible.

Typical time on-site: 3 days a week
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