Design Engineer 3D Printing

About Signify Through bold discovery and cutting-edge innovation, we lead an industry that is vital for the future of our planet: lighting. Through our leadership in connected lighting and the Internet of Things, we're breaking new ground in data analytics, AI, and smart solutions for homes, offices, cities, and beyond. At Signify , you can shape tomorrow by building on our incredible 125+ year legacy while working toward even bolder sustainability goals. Our culture of continuous learning, creativity, and commitment to diversity and inclusion empowers you to grow your skills and career. Join us, and together, we’ll transform our industry, making a lasting difference for brighter lives and a better world. More about the role This is an exciting job opportunity (fixed-term contract) for you to light the way as a Design Engineer 3D Printing in France with Signify . - Specialized in thermal and mechanical engineering for luminaire development , including 3D printed components, mechanical interfaces, material selection, assembly concepts, and product reliability. Develops and implements solutions that meet performance, manufacturability, quality, and reliability requirements from concept through product release. - Responsible for the design, development, testing, documentation, and release support of systems, subsystems, or components as part of an overall product architecture. Ensures engineering solutions are practical, efficient, robust, and aligned with project goals, product family requirements, and applicable industry standards. - Applies relevant technology, research findings, material insights, and design rules into engineering solutions, with attention to printability, repeatability, mechanical robustness, thermal behavior, and design-for-manufacturing . - Works with an outside-in view to understand customer, design, market, and product family needs, including requirements related to aesthetics, usability, reliability, sustainability, and competitive positioning. Collaborates with Product Management, Design, Quality, Manufacturing, Research, and global competence communities to stay aligned with latest insights and technical developments. - Designs, realizes, tests, and validates components or subsystems based on design requirements, and translates these into specifications, development documentation, test evidence, and project deliverables. - Supports the development of coherent product family solutions , ensuring that mechanical concepts, materials, interfaces, and design choices can be consistently applied across multiple luminaire applications where relevant. - Contributes to engineering decision-making during concept development, feasibility assessment, prototyping, testing, and industrialization, ensuring that selected solutions balance innovation, technical feasibility, cost, quality, and time-to-market. - Drives and supports IP creation and protection, including identification of potential patents, trade secrets, copyrights, and reusable design know-how. - Writes, updates, and maintains development reports, design documentation, specifications, test reports, risk assessments, and project deliverables. - Depending on grade, contributes to technology road mapping, platform thinking, design rules, and reusable engineering building blocks for future luminaire and product family developments. - Depending on grade, provides coaching and mentoring within the team to support effective use of available knowledge and skills, including mechanical design, thermal considerations, 3D printing constraints, product family thinking, and cross-functional collaboration. More about you While we value and appreciate all applicants, we believe that the following experience and skills will be needed to shine brightly in this job opening: - Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Thermal Engineering, Product Engineering, Industrial Design Engineering, or a closely related field , provid