At Formlabs, we’re building the tools that make it possible for anyone to bring their ideas to life. 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!
The Print Optimization Team takes on the challenge of optimizing the intersection of hardware, software, and materials to deliver industry leading print performance. We strive to make our products print parts as quickly, reliably, easily, accurately, and beautifully as possible. We are a collaborative team, with a diverse background, passionate about pushing the boundaries of print performance across our product lines.
As an SLS Print Process Intern, you will be continuously using your problem solving skills to drive improved performance. We are customer focused, and the first step of tackling the problem is understanding what the performance boost we are trying to achieve, and how many customers will benefit. Will customers be able to print parts faster? More reliability? Will they be easier to post-process, or print more accurately?
Internship Term: Fall 2025 (approx. September 8 - December 19)
Commitment: Full-time
Location: Onsite in Somerville, MA
Application Requirements: Portfolio strongly encouraged
The Job:
- Push the capabilities of our SLS 3D printing platforms
- Drive root cause analysis, considering mechanics, fluid dynamics, software, chemistry, optics, electronics, thermodynamics, and customer behavior
- Design efficient experiments that tease out underlying behavior in a complicated system of variables
- Tackle multi-disciplinary problems
- Develop and commercialize solutions that make a real and immediate impact on customer print performance
You:
- Are hands-on and willing to cross discipline boundaries to solve a problem
- Comfortable working with CAD programs (ie SolidWorks)
- Basic computer programming (Python)
- Understand material properties and characterization
- Able to build DOE and custom tests
- Passionate about improving performance of 3D printers
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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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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