Carbon, Inc.
Staff Application Engineer
Sunnyvale, California, United States · Staff+
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Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~61% per draw at Level IV). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
Lottery odds assume a STEM candidate.
Personalize to your clock →H-1B wage level
the lottery is wage-weighted — each level is one more entry
$4,675 more — $187,075 — moves this role to Level II and 2 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $187,075 would place this position at wage Level II. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Developers (15-1252) · San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- Our company is built on the idea that diverse fields of study must come together to solve intractable problems.
- You will be joining a diverse team with a vibrant culture, where team success is as important as celebrating individual contributions.
- Help us change the world and we will help you change yours.
Responsibilities
- Lead development and optimization of applications across the full lifecycle (design, file preparation, printing, post-processing, finishing, quality/validation), including customer benchmarks, prototypes, and bridge/production applications.
- Own technical outcomes for your programs, manage timelines and milestones, and proactively identify and mitigate risk.
- create reusable templates, checklists, and workflows/recipes that improve efficiency and consistency across your accounts and programs.
- Mentor and coach other Application Engineers through design reviews and informal training, sharing lessons learned and reusable materials that help build team capability.
- Produce concise, thorough documentation and alignment artifacts (requirements, SOWs, SOPs, decision logs, next steps, action items); create reusable templates, checklists, and workflows/recipes that improve efficiency and consistency across your accounts and programs.
Requirements
- Strong proficiency with CAD and CAE software (SolidWorks, NX or CATIA
- Experience with scripting and computational design (Python, Grasshopper, visual coding) and applying automation to design-to-production workflows.
- Working knowledge of FEA, structural loading, and common plastic material (tensile, impact, CTE, off-gassing, temperature limitations, bonding/adhesion).
- Experience evaluating opportunities using cost models, scalability assessments, and technical/operational risk tradeoffs, with the ability to make and defend recommendations.
Skills
- Demonstrated ability to mentor and coach others.
- Detail oriented with excellent verbal, graphical, and technical communication skills.
- Proficiency with office productivity tools (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Google Suite).
- Creative problem solver with a positive attitude
- The compensation bracket for this position is $182,400 - 273,600 (per year).
- Carbon also offers to our eligible employees a comprehensive total rewards package that includes equity, benefits, and time off programs.
- For details on our total rewards package, visit https://www.carbon3d.com/about/life-at-carbon.
- #LI-Hybrid #LI-MRWC
Compensation
- At Carbon, we look at the person holistically and carefully consider a wide range of factors when determining salary.
Benefits
- Drive technical strategy for assigned applications, creating designs that leverage Carbon's technology to deliver clear, defensible customer benefit versus standard manufacturing methods.
Company info
- At Carbon, our mission goes beyond 3D printing.
- We are enabling creators everywhere to make what the world needs, right now.
- At Carbon, we look at the person holistically and carefully consider a wide range of factors when determining salary.
- Educate and influence customers on Design for DLS best practices and design for manufacturability, including printer operation, materials, design guidelines, software, and post-processing
- guide customers through design, aesthetic, and technical tradeoffs that meet production requirements such as cost and manufacturability.
- Use hypothesis-driven approaches to define test methods, evaluate solutions, iterate on feedback, and provide recommendations to internal and external customers.
- Educate and influence customers on Design for DLS best practices and design for manufacturability, including printer operation, materials, design guidelines, software, and post-processing; guide customers through design, aesthetic, and technical tradeoffs that meet production requirements such as cost and manufacturability.
This listing is sourced directly from Carbon, Inc.'s careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.