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