Senior Design Engineer (m/f/d)

Senior Design Engineer (m/f/d)

AI Agents to Bridge the Gap between Engineering & Purchasing to reduce manufacturing waste

My co-founder Ian and I combine over 15 years of industry experience, working with companies like SEW-Eurodrive, Terex, Bosch and Carl Zeiss. We co-founded Resourcly, a Project A-backed, industrial tech start-up to help industrial manufacturers streamline complex portfolios to improve EBIT while preventing and reducing idle inventory from being scrapped.

With our solution, we want to solve industry problems that we have tried to address for the last decade in the manufacturing companies we worked for, but that have so far been out of reach. With new technology and AI, that can finally happen.

Complex processes and products, lack of engineering talent and massive labour costs as well as a lack of intelligent automation have remained the industry’s most pressing challenge. With LLMs and agents, we finally have the tools to solve this.

Our vision is that future purchasing and engineering processes will be orchestrated and run by an AI workforce - ensuring reliable and cost-efficient procurement and flow of goods in an uncertain and complicated world with finite resources.

🦾 We're already live with global manufacturing leaders in Europe

💰 Backed by one of Europe's top early-stage funds (Project A)

📈 Growing fast and hiring exceptional talent to join early

Our goal is to build a small, but excellent team, therefore we are looking for a Design Engineer. If you are excited to work in a very early-stage environment alongside the founding team, applying deep engineering intelligence to drive real cost and complexity outcomes for industrial manufacturers - please reach out.

The Role

As our Design Engineer, you will bring deep, hands-on engineering expertise to help our customers make better decisions about their parts, components, and product architectures. This is not a pure CAD role — it sits at the intersection of engineering rigour and commercial intelligence, and you will be the person who ensures that engineering knowledge translates into real cost and complexity outcomes.

You will work closely with our Founders, domain experts, and customers to apply your discipline depth — whether mechanical, hydraulic, or electrical — to the hardest problems in industrial portfolio management. If you believe that every unnecessary part number has a cost, this role was built for you.

🪄 Key Responsibilities

Review, validate, and enforce drawing quality across 2D/3D engineering drawings — ensuring dimensional accuracy, GD&T compliance, and adherence to drafting standards, while maintaining version control discipline in PLM/PDM systems

Apply similarity analysis methods to detect near-duplicate or functionally equivalent parts across the existing component landscape, translating findings into actionable consolidation recommendations with clear cost and complexity impact

Drive standardisation and commonality across product architectures — identifying where part reuse can be increased, where variants create unnecessary complexity, and where engineering decisions can simplify the portfolio

Own or contribute to the design and redesign of mechanical, hydraulic, or electromechanical components — applying DFM/DFA principles, driving redesign efforts for cost reduction or manufacturability improvement in parametric 3D CAD environments

Embed cost thinking into the design process from concept stage — using should-cost models, challenging design decisions on cost grounds with data, and supporting value engineering workshops

🧑‍🚀 Who You Are

Part-sceptical by default: Your first instinct when asked to design something new is to check whether it already exists. You feel genuine unease at unnecessary part proliferation — and celebrate retiring a part number as much as releasing a new one

Commercially grounded: You've internalised that every engineering decision has a cost consequence — and every cost consequence has a business consequence. You don't need a finance team to tell you when something is too expensive for what it does

Honest about trade-offs: You don't over-engineer to stay safe or under-engineer to hit a cost target you can't defend. You surface trade-offs clearly and let the right people make informed decisions

Detail-oriented while keeping output speed: You care deeply about drawing quality and engineering correctness — but don't let the pursuit of perfection become an excuse for inaction. You ship drawings that are right, not drawings that are perfect

Technically restless: You keep up with new manufacturing processes, materials, and design methods — not to chase novelty, but because the best solutions often come from adjacent fields

Low ego, company-first mindset: You prioritize long-term engineering impact over personal credit, and you earn trust across functions through results — not politics

🧑‍💻 Your Capabilities

You bring 4–10+ years of hands-on design experience in at least one engineering discipline — mechanical/structural, hydraulic systems, or electrical/electronic design — ideally within an OEM, Tier 1 supplier, or engineering consultancy

You are proficient in 3D CAD and 2D drawing production: Parametric modelling in CATIA, SolidWorks, NX, or Creo with GD&T fluency and tolerance stack-up understanding

You can drive similarity analysis and part standardisation: Familiarity with part classification systems, geometric search tools, or feature-based similarity approaches

You understand design-to-cost and cost engineering methods: Experience building or using should-cost models, understanding manufacturing process cost drivers, and participating in or leading VE/VA workshops

You are comfortable working in PLM/ERP environments: Practical experience with systems like Teamcenter, Windchill, or Enovia, and an understanding of how engineering data flows into ERP (SAP or equivalent)

You can work with structured data: Comfortable with part lists, BOM analysis, and cost reports in Excel, Python, or equivalent — you draw conclusions from numbers, not just geometry

You are fluent in English: Confident communicating technical trade-offs to non-engineers. German is a strong plus for the European manufacturing context

Optional, but a plus: You have applied DFM/DFA principles across machining, casting, welding, forming, and assembly — or have experience with AI-assisted similarity detection tools and geometric search platforms

📍 Location & Logistics

3 days in office (Mannheim, Germany)

Start: As soon as possible

Compensation: Top of market (We're constrained by bandwidth, not demand - great time to negotiate)

How to Apply

Please apply via LinkedIn or send your CV together with a brief introduction to our Founders Associate Nils ([email protected]) and we will get back to you!

🌍 Note from Helena, CEO of Resourcly

What drives me personally is the deep belief that Germany and Europe’s long-term prosperity and sovereignty depend on a strong, independent economic engine. To secure that future, we need more AI product-first European champions on the global stage - building not just great software, but foundational systems that change how industries operate today.

My mission is to build one of the world’s biggest automation companies for manufacturing - from Europe. While our headquarters will remain European, our ambition is global. From day one, we benchmark ourselves against the very best in the world and design our product for international scale.

But there’s something deeper that fuels this: the transition to a circular economy. I’ve seen firsthand how complexity in supply chains leads to waste, and how intransparency drives inefficiency - and, inevitably, more waste. In a world of shrinking resources and rising expectations, this is not just an environmental problem - it's a business and economic imperative.

At Resourcly, we’re building the infrastructure to turn unused resources into opportunities, to match supply and demand across silos, and to help manufacturers become more resilient, efficient, and circular - without needing to overhaul their entire systems.

If you share this drive - to make global impact through technology, and to build a more circular, sovereign industrial base for Europe - we would love to hear from you.