Senior Application Engineer

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.

As a successful Senior Application Engineer for Footwear, you will work with Carbon's Footwear Business Development team and external customers to support the identification and development of footwear 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 up to 80% of the time. You will be working closely with our customers in a lab setting with approximately 20% of your time traveling to customer sites in Germany or other parts of Europe.

You will:

• Create market-leading footwear designs that utilize Carbon's technology to deliver customer benefit vs. standard footwear manufacturing methods
• Set and evaluate footwear product performance criteria
• Learn and then educate Carbon’s footwear 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 footwear applications including customer benchmarks, prototype designs, and bridge/production applications
• Drive all stages of footwear 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 CAD and CAE software (SolidWorks, NX or CATIA; Magics, Rhino, Grasshopper)
• Experience working as a designer in the footwear industry and familiarity with footwear manufacturing techniques and design for manufacturing a strong preference
• 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 (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Google Suite)
• 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 20% to locations in Europe, but mostly Germany)