Startdate
From 01.11.2026 onwards.
What you will be doing here
MAGNOTHERM builds refrigerant-free magnetocaloric cooling systems. One of those systems is made of components of very different kinds — magnet system, hydraulics and heat transfer, drives, electronics, frame and enclosure — designed and shaped by different people in our team, and they have to come together at product level. That is where you work.
You keep the overall model of the machine, with the structure, the naming and the revision states behind it, and you produce the documents that production, procurement and suppliers actually work from. You bring your own ideas into the interfaces between components, work them out together with the people designing them, and follow through to make sure what was agreed lands in the model and in the data. The CAD system itself is yours as well, with its users, licences, templates and libraries.
What you'll own
- The overall model. You keep one model of the whole machine, with every component referenced into it at its position. That means maintaining the mounting positions, the skeleton geometry and the installation spaces, keeping the assembly loadable and current while your colleagues change parts underneath it, and checking against the interface documents whether every component stayed inside the space allocated to it. On the assembled model, clashes, tight clearances, impossible assembly sequences and missing service access all become visible while they can still be fixed in CAD rather than in the workshop. Whatever you find there, you raise it and stay with it until it has been decided.
- Product structure, naming and revisions. You own part numbers, product structure, naming convention, storage location and release state. You enforce the nomenclature, maintain purchased parts, and keep it unambiguous at any moment which revision is valid and which revision went into which build. Changes run through you: you record what changed, check what depends on it, and tell the people it affects.
- Designing at product level. Brackets, sheet metal, panels, frame parts, piping and cable routing, assembly fixtures, and the re-modelling of purchased parts — everything that arises at the top product level and does not call for specialist design work. This part of the job is real design work and takes up a noticeable share of the week.
- Manufacturing documentation. You produce the drawings and give them defensible tolerances, geometric dimensioning and tolerancing, weld and surface specifications and material call-outs, and you maintain the bills of material that go with them. That holds for one-off parts from our own workshop as much as for series orders.
- Documentation and prepared models. The same data yields more than the manufacturing drawing: assembly instructions and exploded views for our own production, the basis for manuals, simplified CAD models that customers build into their own plant, and prepared models and renderings for design and marketing. Sometimes you supply the basis for these, sometimes the finished image.
- ERP maintenance. You create item masters and bills of material and keep them current, so that the engineering structure and the purchasing and inventory structure do not drift apart.
- Interface to suppliers and production. You assemble the manufacturing data packages and release them, through the ERP system or directly. Questions from manufacturers you handle together with technical purchasing; where a design decision sits behind one, you bring in the engineers responsible. Data coming back from suppliers, in STEP or native format, you bring into our structure.
- CAD administration. You manage users and permissions, look after licences and their renewal, versions and updates, templates, drawing frames and start parts, and the standard and purchased-part libraries. Together with the engineers you set the modelling and drawing conventions everyone works to, and you introduce new colleagues to them. Servers, network and backup sit with our system administration; you coordinate with them without carrying IT responsibility yourself.
What you would ideally bring to the table
Must-have skills & experience
- Completed vocational training as a technical product designer (German: Technischer Produktdesigner), technical draughtsman (Technischer Zeichner) or mechanical designer, a Techniker qualification, or a comparable background.
- At least three years of professional experience in industry, in an environment where parts were actually manufactured and bought from your documents.
- You know release and change processes from practice: how a revision gets released, what a change pulls along with it, and why both belong in writing.
- Confidence in 3D CAD, including large assemblies that several people work on at once. Experience in Fusion 360, Inventor, SolidWorks, Siemens NX, Creo or CATIA is equally welcome to us.
- Standard-compliant drawing work to ISO 128 and ISO 2768, with geometric tolerances to ISO 1101, weld symbols to ISO 2553 and surface specifications to ISO 21920.
- Experience with a PDM or vault system that goes beyond checking parts in and out and covers revisions, releases and changes.
- A sure hand with bills of material and with the handover to manufacturing and purchasing, ideally with some exposure to an ERP system.
- The willingness to rethink a process from its purpose rather than adopt it because everyone runs it that way — and then to implement it quickly.
- Orderliness with data. This job lives on files being where they belong, named correctly and carrying the right revision, including when things have to move fast.
- Englisch (C1+) und Deutsch (C1+)
Nice To Have
- Automation in CAD. Repetitive work is the rule in this job: drawing generation, bill-of-material export, checks on naming and structure, variants. If you have automated that kind of work before, with iLogic, with macros, with your CAD system’s API or with Python, it speaks clearly in your favour.
- AI-supported working beyond the vendor functions. What the CAD vendors ship for this today is modest. We are interested in whether you have built something yourself or seriously tried: language models for bill-of-material and documentation work, for check routines, or for generating recurring geometry and drawing content. Tell us about it, including the attempts that did not work out.
- Experience with sheet metal, welded assemblies, frame construction and piping and cable routing, the areas where installation space and assemblability get tight.
- Purchased-part libraries such as CADENAS or TraceParts.
- Exploded views, assembly instructions and renderings from CAD data.
- Setting up a CAD or PDM environment from scratch rather than taking over an existing one.
What you will get from the job
- Flexible hours and 30 days of vacation.
- Compensation aligned with startup standards, with room to grow as the company scales.
- A team that's sharp, interdisciplinary, and doesn't take itself too seriously.
- The chance to pioneer technology that actually helps the planet.
- Ownership, responsibility, and a culture where learning from mistakes is expected.
- A front-row seat as a deep-tech company scales.
- Memes. Good ones. And lots of them.
PS: We are a big fan of cover letters. They don't need to be long, but getting the general idea of who you are and what motivates you helps in the application selection. A portfolio of work you can share externally is also welcome.
What makes this role unusual
- Work on the whole product. The level where all components come together is held by a single person, and that is you. You are there when the interfaces are decided, you bring in what can be manufactured and assembled, and you turn the result into a model and a data package that can be built from.
- A say in the tool. The decision on our next CAD and PDM system is coming up. Anyone who wants to influence it with a solid argument has the chance to do so over the coming months.
- The product data system is built in house. A colleague builds it, and their job is to implement what you need for your work — instead of you building your process around a ten-year-old installation.
- Workshop, assembly and test bench in the same building. You see your drawings cut, welded and assembled, and you hear about it directly when a tolerance was wrong.
About us
We believe in science; we believe in facts. Climate change is speeding up more than ever and we need to do something about it. We are convinced that we need better technologies to overcome this tremendous challenge – or more precisely: this tremendous threat to humanity. We are on a mission to decarbonize the refrigeration industry and reduce its contribution of 7% to global greenhouse gas emissions.
Support us in making our vision a reality – join us!
We are material scientists, chemists, physicists, a lot of engineers as well as product and graphic designers. We are an agile team of bright minds with diverse and international backgrounds. We love hanging out together, we argue about new technologies, politics, the best sport, and food trends. Basically, we are human.
MAGNOTHERM is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We are open to all groups of people without regard to age, color, national origin, religion, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, or any other legally protected characteristics.
Do I need to meet all the requirements to apply?
Studies by several different sources have shown that, on average, men will apply for a job if they meet 60% of the application requirements. In contrast, women/non-binary people will seek to match a much higher percentage of the requirements before applying.
We encourage everyone to apply and give us a chance to evaluate your skills and experience. We are all learning on the job, and although the listing above has been carefully compiled, we are also open-minded and interested to hear about the value you can bring to the role and MAGNOTHERM.
How can I demonstrate that I have particular needs in the application process?
For people living with disabilities, chronic illnesses, or neurodiversity, adjustments and support can make a decisive difference in the application process. If you need any specific accommodations (tools, time, etc.) and feel comfortable disclosing this, please let us know.