Senior Mechanical Engineer - Value Engineering

Formlabs•Somerville, MA

About The Position

Do you want to change how the world creates? At Formlabs, we’re building the tools that make it possible for anyone to bring their ideas to life, from cutting-edge products to life-saving medical devices. Our 3D printing technology powers innovation at more than 50,000 industry leaders worldwide, including Apple, Google, Tesla, New Balance, and NASA. Together, we’re helping creators design, prototype, and manufacture faster than ever before. We’re a team of hands-on builders, engineers, and innovators reinventing how the world makes physical things. If you’re ready to shape the future of fabrication, come build it with us. As the Mechanical Engineer for Value Engineering, you will own all VA/VE activities for our sustaining products. This includes maintaining a pipeline of VA/VE projects and driving design for cost, alternative supplier validation, or tooling qualification to reduce production costs of our products. In this highly visible, cross-functional role, you will deliver focused technical validation, drive streamlined project execution, and accelerate the implementation of savings across our product portfolio. Your work will directly improve product margins while ensuring all sustaining-phase changes are introduced safely, reliably, and with the right technical rigor. You will serve as the dedicated technical owner for the full validation lifecycle of sustaining-phase hardware changes — including cost reductions, second sourcing, tariff mitigation, and component optimizations.

Requirements

5+ years of post-graduate experience as a mechanical engineer, with demonstrated ownership of VA/VE initiatives from concept through implementation
A strong mechanical engineering fundamentals and use first-principles reasoning to understand how design or supplier changes affect performance, reliability, and manufacturability.
You’re comfortable evaluating materials, geometries, and components, and can quickly identify the highest-risk areas that need validation.
Possess hands-on experience running tests—building fixtures, executing experiments, gathering data, and refining setups as needed.
You rely on data to drive decisions and can translate test results into clear, concise engineering reports that justify a path forward.
Able to manage multiple projects with tight timelines and know how to prioritize the work that delivers the highest impact.
Are a strong communicator who can work with cross-functional teams to align Sourcing, Manufacturing, and Design around technical decisions.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with reliability testing or failure analysis
Experience working with overseas suppliers or manufacturing partners
Background in value engineering or cost-down projects

Responsibilities

Evaluate proposed design, material, and supplier changes to determine technical risk, validation scope, and ROI.
Review product CAD and organize teardown efforts to identify new cost down projects
Develop clear, efficient validation plans in partnership with Sourcing, Manufacturing, and Design.
Execute hands-on lab testing and coordinate extended testing with our China Test Lab.
Analyze test data, lead failure investigations, and deliver decisive, data-driven “go/no-go” recommendations.
Manage project timelines, cross-functional communication, and stakeholder alignment from kickoff through implementation.
Review FAI/Cpk data and author ECOs to release validated changes into production.
Improve the sustaining pipeline by creating lightweight tools, templates, and processes that increase clarity and throughput.