System Engineer (m/f/d)

Nikon SLM Solutions - Additive Manufacturing - Karriere; Lübeck; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

37.5 hours/week

30 days of holiday

Holiday pay

13th salary

Mobile work

Flexible working hours

Company pension plan

Kindergarten subsidy

Jobrad

Corporate Benefits

Wellpass fitness network

Job summary

Nikon SLM Solutions AG is a global leader in metal additive manufacturing. We seek a System Engineer to drive development of advanced machines, leading cross-disciplinary teams from concept to release and sustaining engineering.

You will define requirements, architectures and verification strategies while coordinating with mechanical, optical, control and software engineers to meet customer and business goals. We value startup spirit with corporate backing.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in engineering with relevant domains; leadership of complex multi-disciplinary programs preferred.
• 3+ years professional experience with system-level design and high-technology products; additive manufacturing knowledge is a plus.
• Experience in requirements analysis, architecture, system integration, testing, and documentation, with change control awareness.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain product requirements, system architectures, and technical specs aligned to customer and business needs.
• Drive system-level architecture decisions and technical trade-offs across disciplines.
• Develop system qualification, verification, and validation strategies for robust machine designs.
• Manage design changes and assess system-level impact across hardware, software and processes.
• Lead root-cause analysis of field issues and support customer communications and corrective actions.
• Collaborate with Product/Program Management, Sales and other stakeholders for customer engagements and program execution.

Skills

Requirements analysis

System architecture design

Systems integration

Testing & verification

Documentation

Change & configuration control

Polarion/Doors experience

Education

Master’s degree in engineering (Industrial, Aerospace, Mechanical, Electrical)

3+ years professional experience; 2 years leading multidisciplinary design programs

Tools

Polarion

Doors

Job description

BENEFITS:

• collective agreement of the chemical industry
• 37,5 hours/week
• 30 days of holiday
• holiday pay
• 13th salary
• mobile work
• flexible working hours
• company pension plan
• kindergarten subsidy
• Jobrad
• Corporate Benefits
• Corporate fitness network Wellpass

POSITIONDESCRIPTION:

As a System Engineer, you will drive the development of advanced metal additive manufacturing systems. You will provide technical leadership across the complete product lifecycle, from concept definition through product release and sustaining engineering. To achieve this, you work hand in hand with an interdisciplinary team from mechanical, control, optical, process and software engineering, ensuring that customer requirements and business objectives are met.

• Define and maintain product requirements, system architectures, and technical specifications in alignment with customer and business needs
• Drive system-level architecture decisions, concept evaluations, and technical trade-off analyses in collaboration with interdisciplinary engineering teams
• Develop system qualification, verification, and validation strategies to ensure robust, reliable, and high-performing machine designs
• Manage design changes of existing products and assess their system-level impact across hardware, software and process domains
• Lead root-cause analysis of complex field issues incl. the support of customer communication and implementation of corrective actions to improve product performance
• Collaborate with Product Management, Program Management, Sales and other stakeholders to support customer engagements, tender evaluations and successful program execution within timeline and budget objectives

QUALIFICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS:

• Master’s degree in the field of engineering (Industrial, Aerospace, Mechanical, Electrical)
  3+ years overall professional experience, as well as a minimum of 2 years' experience leading multidisciplinary design program of complex systems with high technology content products or alternatively proven knowledge in the field of additive manufacturing (machine, material or process development) and understanding the interrelationships between the various sub-systems of a metal 3D printer
• Experience in requirements analysis, architecture design, systems integration, testing, certificationand technical documentation
• Experience in change and configuration control management
• Experience with Polarion, Doors or similar requirements management tool beneficial
• Very good attention to system design objectives and impacts to their design and productionimplementation

YOUR NEW WORKPLACE:

We offer you a versatile and responsible scope of duties in a global business. You can expect colleagues on an equal footing, flat hierarchies, a strong team spirit and a "can do" working atmosphere.

We like to describe ourselves as a company with a start-up atmosphere, because with us you get the best of both worlds: a dynamic, future-oriented work environment with the advantages of a corporation.

We are a company of diversity, tolerance and openness. That is why we want people of all ages and disabilities, religions, sexual orientations and identities, ethnic origins, nationalities and genders to find their employer in us.

Do you want to change the future of additive manufacturing and become part of our success story?

WHO WE ARE:

Nikon SLM Solutions AG is one of the world's leading companies in additive manufacturing. Our Selective Laser Melting machines enable the fast, reliable and cost-effective production of high-quality metal components. With our more than 700 employees from over 35 nations, we are revolutionizing additive manufacturing and and are a partner at eye level for our renowned customers, e.g. from the aerospace industry, the energy sector, healthcare or the automotive sector.

Nikon SLM Solutions AG is headquartered in Lübeck, Germany, with offices in France, India, Italy, Singapore, South Korea, Canada and the United States.