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Electrical Engineer (Shenzhen)

Shenzhen, China
Level
Mid

Not stated in the posting: salary, work type, visa.

Open. First seen 3 October 2026.

About the role

To reinvent an industry, you have to build the best team. Join Formlabs if you want to bring groundbreaking professional 3D printers to the desktop of every designer, engineer, researcher, and artist in the world.

Electrical engineering at Formlabs bridges the gap between the analog and digital worlds. If you love to design and build boards from the ground up, develop firmware to control complex electromechanical systems, and produce elegant solutions to real-world problems, we want you as an Electrical Engineer.

You are highly encouraged to share a portfolio that demonstrates your skills and experience.

The Job:

  • Lead the electronics design of 3D printing and related products
  • Full-stack design, able to go from concept to initial prototype and mature the design to mass production. Ownership of designs throughout the product life cycle
  • Make EE architecture decisions and tradeoffs while observing all facets of a design, including cost, reliability, flexibility, etc to achieve business goals.
  • Ensure soundness of designs by performing necessary engineering calculations and experiments.
  • Design for wired and wireless connectivity options such as Wifi, Bluetooth, Ethernet
  • Design that involves physical sensors and actuators.
  • Write basic code to test the functionality of designs.
  • Hands-on experience with prototyping, validating, debugging, and reworking boards

You:

  • Have a minimum of 2 years of experience designing and debugging electronics.
  • Are an electrical engineering generalist, comfortable with analog and digital design, PCB layout, validation, and debugging techniques
  • Have at least basic familiarity with embedded systems (microcontroller firmware developed in C/C++, embedded Linux) or another software engineering discipline.
  • Familiarity with consumer electronics standards and certifications
  • Experience in the consumer electronics industry
  • Working knowledge of English: Able to read and write documentation. Able to understand and present technical ideas verbally.

Bonus: We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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What this role asks for

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The team: Hardware Engineering HIRES STEADILY

This role is one of 43 open in Hardware Engineering. 30 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in March: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.

WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS

Python (25 of 43), Embedded Systems (17 of 43), C++ (10 of 43), MATLAB (10 of 43), Linux (9 of 43), LabVIEW (6 of 43), C (5 of 43)

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