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Print Process Intern (Winter/Spring 2027)

CompanyFormlabs
LocationSomerville
Work ModeOn Site
PostedSeptember 13, 2026
Internship Information
Core Responsibilities
The intern will drive root cause analysis and design efficient experiments to optimize SLS 3D printing performance across hardware, software, and materials. They will develop and commercialize solutions that directly improve customer print speed, reliability, and accuracy.
Internship Type
full time
Salary Range
$67,600 - $85,800
Company Size
772
Visa Sponsorship
No
Language
English
Working Hours
40 hours
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About The Company
Formlabs builds the tools that make it possible for anyone to bring their ideas to life. Headquartered in Somerville, Massachusetts with offices in Germany, Japan, China, Singapore, and Hungary, Formlabs is the professional 3D printer of choice for engineers, designers, manufacturers, healthcare providers, and decision makers around the globe. Formlabs products include the Form Series SLA printers, Fuse Series SLS printers, Form Wash and Form Cure post-processing solutions.
About the Role

At Formlabs, we’re building the tools that make it possible for anyone to bring their ideas to life. Internships at Formlabs give students the opportunity to create, build, solve, and discover in every area of our business. Come build your career and build the future of 3D printing. Internship perks include social events, networking opportunities, access to our fully-stocked kitchens and onsite lunches, and unlimited 3D printing! 

The Print Optimization Team takes on the challenge of optimizing the intersection of hardware, software, and materials to deliver industry leading print performance. We strive to make our products print parts as quickly, reliably, easily, accurately, and beautifully as possible. We are a collaborative team, with a diverse background, passionate about pushing the boundaries of print performance across our product lines.

As an SLS Print Process Intern, you will be continuously using your problem solving skills to drive improved performance. We are customer focused, and the first step of tackling the problem is understanding what the performance boost we are trying to achieve, and how many customers will benefit. Will customers be able to print parts faster? More reliability? Will they be easier to post-process, or print more accurately? 

Internship Term: Winter/Spring 2027 (January - April)
Commitment: Full-time
Location: Onsite in Somerville, MA
Application Requirements: Portfolio strongly encouraged

The Job:

  • Push the capabilities of our SLS 3D printing platforms
  • Drive root cause analysis, considering mechanics, fluid dynamics, software, chemistry, optics, electronics, thermodynamics, and customer behavior
  • Design efficient experiments that tease out underlying behavior in a complicated system of variables
  • Tackle multi-disciplinary problems
  • Develop and commercialize solutions that make a real and immediate impact on customer print performance

You:

  • Are hands-on and willing to cross discipline boundaries to solve a problem
  • Comfortable working with CAD programs (ie SolidWorks)
  • Basic computer programming (Python)
  • Understand material properties and characterization
  • Able to build DOE and custom tests
  • Passionate about improving performance of 3D printers

Intern Benefits & Perks:

  • Flexible Out of Office Plan – take time when you need it
  • Ample on-site parking & pre-tax commuter benefits
  • Catered on-site lunches (3x per week), snacks, beverages, & treats
  • Cohort-based social and professional development experience for interns
  • Many opt-in culture events across our diverse community
  • And of course… unlimited 3D prints

Compensation

Interns at Formlabs are paid on a bi-weekly pay schedule. The pay range for this role will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, location and expected impact on the organization. This is a salaried role, so you will always be paid based on the assumed 40 hours per week as a full-time intern. This position does not offer housing or relocation assistance.

The weekly pay range for this role is:
$1,300—$1,650 USD
Key Skills
3D printingSLS printingCADSolidWorksPythonRoot cause analysisExperimental designMaterial propertiesCharacterizationMechanicsFluid dynamicsThermodynamicsOpticsElectronicsProblem solvingData analysis
Categories
EngineeringManufacturingTechnologyScience & Research
Benefits
Flexible out of office planOn-site parkingPre-tax commuter benefitsCatered on-site lunchesSnacks and beveragesCohort-based social and professional developmentUnlimited 3D prints