SAEKI - Manufacturing at software speed
Europe's defense industrial base cannot respond at the speed modern conflict requires. Legacy suppliers operate on month-long timelines. Tribal knowledge is retiring. Supply chains are fragile. SAEKI is building the operating system for autonomous factories: the infrastructure that lets Europe manufacture mission-critical components at software speed.
At Factory ONE in Munich, metal laser powder bed fusion produces flight and defense hardware where one bad layer can scrap a part worth weeks of work. As our LPBF Technician, you own the metal printers end to end: from build preparation through powder, machine and post-processing to a part that is ready for inspection.
You make sure every metal build runs, and every part can be traced back to its powder lot.
The Role
Run the LPBF machines. Set up, monitor and shut down LPBF builds, including plate, recoater and inert gas.
Prepare builds. Check orientation, supports and plate layout, and tell engineering what will print reliably.
Own the powder. Sieving, storage and lot traceability, with strict safety discipline on reactive powders.
Post-process. Depowdering, stress relief, plate and support removal, and handover to machining and metrology.
Maintain. Filter changes, cleaning, preventive maintenance and first-level troubleshooting.
Recover from failures. Secure the data, find the cause, then restart.
Document. Build records and non-conformities per EN9100, traceable to every serial number.
What We're Looking For
- 2+ years hands-on LPBF experience in an industrial environment, ideally aerospace, defense, medical or energy.
- Machine fluency. You have run and maintained LPBF systems on your own (e.g. EOS, SLM/Nikon, Trumpf, Renishaw, Colibrium Additive). You know what a recoater crash, short feed or a rising oxygen level looks like and what to do about it.
- Powder safety. You know how to handle reactive metal powders safely: inerting, grounding, ATEX awareness, wet separators, PPE.
- Process understanding. You understand how orientation, supports and parameters affect distortion, porosity and surface quality.
- Quality mindset. You document cleanly and treat traceability as part of the job. Experience in an EN9100 or ISO 13485 environment is a plus.
- Hands-on. You depowder, clean, change filters and saw plates yourself.
- Language: Fluent German for the shop floor, working English for the team in Zurich.
- On-site: Based in Munich, working on site at Factory ONE.
What we're not looking for
- Operators who press start and walk away. Each build gets your attention until the part is off the plate.
- Anyone who restarts a crashed job without understanding the cause.
- People who take shortcuts with powder safety or traceability.
- Anyone who needs every procedure written out before acting. You help write them.
What we offer
- Mission: Rebuild the industrial sovereignty of the West. Your builds become mission-critical hardware.
- Growth path: You work directly with our LPBF lead and grow with the metal AM floor, with the option to lead your own sub-team as it scales.
- Ownership: You run the metal AM floor from day one and shape how it scales.
- The Environment: A greenfield factory with metal AM, SLS, 5-axis CNC and in-house metrology, in a data-driven production environment.
- The Team: Close collaboration with engineering, quality, software and robotics. "Special Forces" model: everyone ships, no politics, no bureaucracy.
- Compensation: Competitive salary incl. share options.
- Location: Factory ONE, Munich.
Apply
- Resume: Show us the LPBF systems, materials and parts you have worked with.
- Cover letter: Why this mission? Why now? And describe a build that failed: what caused it, and what you changed afterwards.