About this 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 components we source from all over the world are essential to the success of our products and company. We must carefully balance our need to lower costs while ensuring high performance, reliability, and abundant supply. You’ll work with our team of engineers to build relationships with suppliers and expand the capabilities of Formlabs to directly improve our products. If you are focused and inspired with a passion for streamlining and optimization, we want you as a Global Sourcing Intern on our team.
Internship Term: Summer 2026 (June - August)
Commitment: Full-time
Location: Onsite in Somerville, MA
The Job:
- Work directly with current and potential suppliers to keep our material pipeline flowing
- Develop strategies to better optimize our suppliers for cost, quality, and supply resilience
- Assist in supply chain planning for future product rollout
- Conduct market analysis to provide deep and meaningful sourcing insights
You:
- Have a technical or engineering background
- Excited to source, contact, and evaluate potential suppliers for quality, reliability, cost and capacity
- Able to work with a variety of teams, communicating effectively in-person and remotely
- Organized and focused, able to handle concurrent conversations and projects, documenting progress along the way
- Leadership experience and exposure to project management
Bonus Skills (Optional):
- Manufacturing and procurement experience
- Advanced use of Microsoft Excel
- Product development experience
- Familiarity with part inspection and corrective action, i.e. Quality Control
- Experience with the manufacturing technologies used to make our printer parts: injection molding, machining, sheet metal stamping, bending, and forming, SMT etc.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Even if you don't check every box, but see yourself contributing, please apply. Help us build an inclusive community that will change the face of 3D printing.
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.
About Formlabs
Formlabs is bringing ground-breaking professional 3D printers to the desktop of every designer, engineer, researcher, and artist in the world. We launched our first product in 2012 with a team of 10 in a small Cambridge office, and have been growing triple digits in just about every measure since then. Now we’re a diverse team of 100 strong across hardware, software, materials, and user-facing roles. We’re on a mission to build the best team anywhere and we’re looking for creative, curious and resourceful people who are ready to take on any challenge. Join us.
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