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System Engineer (m/f/d)

  • Annual salary: 65,134 - 83,165 EUR
  • Published: 2026-11-11
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BENEFITS:

  • collective agreement of the chemical industry
  • 37,5 hours/week
  • 30 days of holiday
  • holiday pay
  • 13th salary
  • mobile work 
  • flexible working hours
  • company pension plan
  • kindergarten subsidy
  • Jobrad
  • Corporate Benefits
  • Corporate fitness network Wellpass

POSITION DESCRIPTION:

As a System Engineer, you will drive the development of advanced metal additive manufacturing systems. You will provide technical leadership across the complete product lifecycle, from concept definition through product release and sustaining engineering. To achieve this, you work hand in hand with an interdisciplinary team from mechanical, control, optical, process and software engineering, ensuring that customer requirements and business objectives are met.  

  • Define and maintain product requirements, system architectures, and technical specifications in alignment with customer and business needs
  • Drive system-level architecture decisions, concept evaluations, and technical trade-off analyses in collaboration with interdisciplinary engineering teams
  • Develop system qualification, verification, and validation strategies to ensure robust, reliable, and high-performing machine designs
  • Manage design changes of existing products and assess their system-level impact across hardware, software and process domains
  • Lead root-cause analysis of complex field issues incl. the support of customer communication and implementation of corrective actions to improve product performance
  • Collaborate with Product Management, Program Management, Sales and other stakeholders to support customer engagements, tender evaluations and successful program execution within timeline and budget objectives 

QUALIFICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS:

  • Master’s degree in the field of engineering (Industrial, Aerospace, Mechanical, Electrical)
    3+ years overall professional experience, as well as a minimum of 2 years' experience leading multidisciplinary design program of complex systems with high technology content products or alternatively proven knowledge in the field of additive manufacturing (machine, material or process development) and understanding the interrelationships between the various sub-systems of a metal 3D printer
  • Experience in requirements analysis, architecture design, systems integration, testing, certification and technical documentation
  • Experience in change and configuration control management
  • Experience with Polarion, Doors or similar requirements management tool beneficial
  • Very good attention to system design objectives and impacts to their design and production implementation

YOUR NEW WORKPLACE:

We offer you a versatile and responsible scope of duties in a global business. You can expect colleagues on an equal footing, flat hierarchies, a strong team spirit and a "can do" working atmosphere.
We like to describe ourselves as a company with a start-up atmosphere, because with us you get the best of both worlds: a dynamic, future-oriented work environment with the advantages of a corporation.

We are a company of diversity, tolerance and openness. That is why we want people of all ages and disabilities, religions, sexual orientations and identities, ethnic origins, nationalities and genders to find their employer in us.

Do you want to change the future of additive manufacturing and become part of our success story?

WHO WE ARE:

Nikon SLM Solutions AG is one of the world's leading companies in additive manufacturing. Our Selective Laser Melting machines enable the fast, reliable and cost-effective production of high-quality metal components. With our more than 700 employees from over 35 nations, we are revolutionizing additive manufacturing and are a partner at eye level for our renowned customers, e.g. from the aerospace industry, the energy sector, healthcare or the automotive sector.

Nikon SLM Solutions AG is headquartered in Lübeck, Germany, with offices in France, India, Italy, Singapore, South Korea, Canada and the United States.

HOW TO APPLY:

Apply directly via our online application tool. Unfortunately, we cannot consider applications by e-mail. 
We look forward to your application.

You have any further questions? Please feel free to contact us.

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Nikon SLM Solutions AG