About the role
SAEKI - Autonomous factories for the free world
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.