Formlabs
Senior Software Engineer, API & Automation
$150K–$210K
Somerville, MA +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 22, 2026
- Location
- Somerville, MA
Somerville, MA, United States - Experience
- Engineers at all experience levels are welcome; no specific number of years is stated.
About the job
Build APIs, SDKs, and automation systems that connect customer software and workflows with Formlabs software, printers, and manufacturing processes.
What you'll do
- Design and build production APIs and SDKs for Formlabs software, printers, and manufacturing workflows.
- Develop reliable automation that integrates print preparation and printers into customer workflows.
- Work with Product Management and external developers to solve technical problems and guide technical direction.
What they ask for
- Experience building APIs, SDKs, or other developer-facing software.
- Strong foundation in software architecture, data structures, object-oriented software design, and cloud services.
- Ability to work across system boundaries and debug complex interactions between software components.
- User-focused approach, ownership, and ability to collaborate across disciplines.
Nice to have
- Experience with REST, gRPC, OpenAPI, or AsyncAPI; NATS or MQTT; or C++.
- Experience with MES or industrial automation, DevOps, CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, embedded systems, networking, AI-powered applications, 3D graphics, computational geometry, robotics, or simulation.
Pay
$150,000 — $210,000 USD (annual base pay)
Tools
REST, gRPC, OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, NATS, MQTT, C++
AI focus
Experience building AI-powered applications is listed as a bonus skill; no specific AI work is described.
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