Senior Application Engineer

Carbon; Nürnberg; Vor Ort; EUR 55.000 - 75.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Carbon is seeking a Senior Application Engineer in Nuremberg to innovate and optimize consumer products using advanced 3D printing technology. You will support the Business Development team and engage with customers to ensure successful product implementation. This role offers an exciting opportunity to lead projects, collaborate with diverse teams, and drive technological advancements in the footwear and consumer product sectors. Experience in design and client interactions is crucial for success in this dynamic position.

Qualifikationen

• Experience in client-facing design roles preferred.
• Fluent business level English speaking skills required.
• Experience in consumer products or footwear industry is strongly preferred.

Aufgaben

• Create market-leading consumer products utilizing Carbon's technology.
• Educate customers on best practices for Design for DLS.
• Manage and optimize applications including customer benchmarks and prototypes.

Kenntnisse

Design Software

3D Printing

Problem Solving

Technical Communication

Ausbildung

BS or MS degree

Tools

CAD Software

Jira

Confluence

Google Suite

Jobbeschreibung

At Carbon, our mission goes beyond 3D printing. We are enabling creators everywhere to make what the world needs, right now. Our company is built on the idea that diverse fields of study must come together to solve intractable problems. We have grand ambitions to create technology that will influence industry around the world. You will be joining a diverse team with a vibrant culture, where team success is as important as celebrating individual contributions.

Help us change the world and we will help you change yours.

At Carbon, we are a team of passionate entrepreneurs, engineers, designers, programmers, and materials scientists who value creativity and the ability to get things done. Our company is built on the idea that when diverse fields of study come together, we can solve challenging problems.

Carbon\'s Application Engineering team owns the collaboration with visionary product companies from concept to production readiness. Once design concepts have been identified to be a strong fit, Design Engineers help prospective customers successfully implement Carbon’s technology within their business. Our team drives and educates customers on Design for DLS best practices while creating products that meet or exceed customers requirements and objectives. In 2025, Carbon is engaged with many of the most respected footwear brands in the world, and our project list is burgeoning in this area.

As a successful Senior Application Engineer, you will work with Carbon\'s Business Development team and external customers to support the identification and development of consumer products that will have a compelling benefit from implementing our technology. You thrive in employing your creative problem-solving abilities and growing your depth of expertise across various functional areas (including design software, materials, manufacturing processes, and cross-functional team leadership). You are comfortable leading engagements with external and internal company stakeholders and can handle tough situations with poise and confidence.

This role is located near Nuremberg, Germany and requires you be onsite approximately 70% of the time. You will be working closely with our customers in a lab setting with approximately 30% of your time traveling to customer sites; mostly in Europe but some outside of Europe.

You will :

• Create market-leading consumer products that utilize Carbon\'s technology to deliver customer benefit vs. standard manufacturing methods
• Set and evaluate product performance criteria
• Learn and then educate Carbon’s customers on Design for DLS best practices, including how the printer works, details of Carbon\\\'s materials, design guidelines to follow, software used to create new design concepts, and post processing techniques.
• Use hypothesis-driven approaches to understand problems, define test methods, evaluate solutions, use feedback, iterate, and provide recommendations to internal and external customers
• Evaluate potential projects for production based on product-market fit, including technical readiness and cost model evaluation
• Develop and optimize applications including customer benchmarks, prototype designs, and bridge / production applications
• Drive all stages of product development including design ideation, modeling, latticing, file preparation, material selection, manufacturing process optimization, and quality control to support customers end-to-end in their Carbon journey
• Manage timelines, milestones, deliverables and troubleshoot when customers face inevitable challenges or roadblocks
• Document design requirements and objectives, statements of work, standard operating procedures, next steps, and action items to align all internal and external team members

You have :

• Skilled with design, CAD and / or CAE software (Rhino, Grasshopper, Blender, Keyshot, Onshape, Solidworks, Magics or others)
• Some 3D printing is nice to have.
• Experience in client-facing design roles
• Fluent business level English speaking skills
• Experience with office productivity software for documentation, presentation, and data analysis (Google Suite, Jira, Confluence)
• Experience working as a designer in the consumer product or footwear industry and familiarity with traditional manufacturing techniques and design for manufacturing strongly preferred
• Ability to be very detail-oriented with excellent verbal, graphical, and technical communication skills
• Demonstrated creative problem-solving abilities and positive attitude
• BS or MS degree
• Ability to travel (Up to 30% to locations in Europe, and some areas outside of Europe)

Application Engineer • Nuremberg, Germany