Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. RemoteStar is building a marketplace and AI platform for additive manufacturing, helping companies convert hard-to-source parts into 3D-printable formats. They are seeking a CAD Engineer / 3D Design Engineer to create and modify CAD models for 3D printing, ensuring manufacturability and quality of parts.
Responsibilities
- Create 3D CAD models from 2D drawings, sketches, reference images, measurements, or customer specifications
- Modify existing CAD files to improve fit, strength, manufacturability, or printability
- Prepare parts for 3D printing across processes such as FDM, SLS, SLA, MJF, and metal additive manufacturing
- Convert and clean files between formats such as STEP, STL, IGES, 3MF, DXF, and DWG
- Review part geometry for common 3D printing issues such as thin walls, overhangs, unsupported features, tolerances, warping risk, and assembly fit
- Create simple technical drawings with dimensions, tolerances, materials, and notes when needed
- Work with the Accio3D team to recommend design changes based on material, process, and supplier capabilities
- Help build a repeatable workflow for converting legacy and replacement parts into manufacturable 3D-printed parts
- Maintain organized files, revision history, and documentation for each part
Skills
- Strong experience with CAD tools such as SolidWorks, Fusion 360, Siemens NX, CATIA, Creo, or Autodesk Inventor
- Ability to create clean, parametric, manufacturable models
- Experience modifying mechanical parts, brackets, housings, fixtures, mounts, adapters, covers, jigs, or replacement components
- Understanding of tolerances, assemblies, fits, wall thickness, fillets, threads, ribs, and fastening methods
- Familiarity with 3D printing design rules and additive manufacturing constraints
- Ability to work from incomplete or messy inputs and still produce practical CAD output
- Strong attention to detail and ability to communicate design tradeoffs clearly
- Comfortable working quickly in a startup environment
- Experience designing parts specifically for SLS, MJF, FDM, SLA, or metal 3D printing
- Experience with reverse engineering, 3D scanning, or scan-to-CAD workflows
- Knowledge of automotive, aerospace, industrial, defense, or manufacturing parts
- Experience with GD&T
- Ability to estimate material/process suitability for a part
- Experience preparing files for vendors, suppliers, or manufacturing partners
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