Application Engineer, Additive Manufacturing
About The Position
Aether Bio is an artificial intelligence company focused on discovering proteins for industrial applications, including developing next-generation polymer composite materials for additive manufacturing. Our products are used in demanding 3D printing applications for robotics, drones, and defense. As an Applications Engineer, you will be the technical link between Aether and our customers, working directly with engineers to evaluate, optimize, and expand the use of our materials. This customer-facing role involves supporting prospects, customers, resellers, and OEM partners, troubleshooting printing challenges, and redesigning parts. You will also contribute internally by identifying usage patterns, documenting best practices, creating technical content, and influencing future product development. This role is cross-functional, blending applications engineering, product marketing, technical consulting, and early-stage product feedback. Travel of up to 40% is expected, especially in the first year.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in additive manufacturing, advanced materials, or industrial 3D printing applications.
- Hands-on experience tuning and optimizing FDM/FFF printing processes.
- Strong understanding of polymer behavior, print parameter tradeoffs, and additive manufacturing design principles (DfAM).
- Experience working directly with engineering teams in technical environments.
- 3D design/CAD skill set.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in highly regulated engineering environments.
- Background in manufacturing, materials science, polymer engineering, mechanical engineering, or related fields.
- Experience supporting customers in a field applications, technical consulting, or deployment role.
- Familiarity with design for additive manufacturing (DfAM).
Responsibilities
- Work directly with engineering teams to deploy and optimize our materials in their additive manufacturing workflows.
- Support both pre-sales evaluations and post-sale optimization and qualification.
- Travel onsite to assist with printer setup, parameter tuning, and troubleshooting.
- Guide customers with DfAM to maximize performance with our materials.
- Serve as a trusted technical partner to our customers and users.
- Communicate clearly about the strengths and limitations of our materials.
- Collaborate to identify new applications where our materials deliver the greatest performance advantages.
- Represent Aether technical capabilities at events, trade shows, and conferences.
- Identify usage patterns across customer environments and printing systems.
- Develop internal and customer-facing technical guidance including print parameters and best practices guidelines, winning application highlights and case studies, competitive landscape evaluations, and demo parts and applications highlighting unique Aether differentiators.
- Represent the Voice of the Customer, and provide structured feedback to our materials and product teams.
- Surface recurring technical challenges, feature requests, and opportunities for improvement.
- Help shape the roadmap for future materials and product iterations.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
