Careers

Build the future of metallic packaging with us.

We're a 320-person team of chemists, engineers and creatives spread across Italy, France, Poland and three regional hubs. We hire for craft, curiosity and care.

Open positions

5 roles
  • Senior Color Scientist

    Lead spectrophotometric characterisation of new pigmented foil formulations. PhD in colour chemistry or 8+ years industry experience.

    Milano, IT R&D · Full-time
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  • Coating Line Engineer

    Own daily performance of two vacuum metallisation lines. Process optimisation, OEE reporting and sustainability KPIs.

    Como, IT Manufacturing · Full-time
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  • Technical Sales Manager — DACH

    Grow our presence with German-speaking converters and brand owners. Strong technical background in flexo or offset printing required.

    Remote (DE / AT / CH) Commercial · Full-time
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  • Sustainability Analyst

    Drive our LCA reporting cycle, manage carbon accounting and support customer-facing recyclability documentation.

    Milano, IT ESG · Full-time
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  • Application Engineer — APAC

    On-press support for converters across Greater China. Cold foil troubleshooting, pre-press consultancy, color matching.

    Shenzhen, CN Technical Support · Full-time
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Don't see your role?

We're always open to talented people in materials science, converting engineering and sustainability. Send a note and a CV to sales@aifoils.com.

Life at CFS

Why people stay, and how we hire

CFS is a specialist materials company that happens to also be a software-and-data company. We make cold foil for the most demanding brands in cosmetics, wine and spirits, FMCG and pharma — and we run the labs, the press trials and the customer-facing documentation that make that foil reliable on a converter's floor. The roles below sit somewhere between a chemistry bench, a flexo press and a notebook full of statistics.

We hire slowly and we retain well: median tenure across the technical organisation is just over seven years, and our last three engineering leadership hires were internal promotions. Below is what to expect from our culture, our interview process and the benefits stack we offer across Europe and APAC.

What working here actually looks like

Most technical work happens in cross-functional triads: a chemist, an applications engineer and a customer-facing project lead share a Slack channel, a shared Linear board and a recurring weekly call. Decisions are written down — short ADRs for technical choices, project briefs for commercial ones — and we read each other's work in public so juniors learn how senior people think.

We protect deep-work time. Wednesday and Thursday are no-meeting days by default across R&D and engineering; commercial teams hold their internal stand-ups inside a 45-minute window in the morning and keep the rest of the day free for customer calls and lab work. Press-trial weeks are treated as project sprints with on-call rotation and lieu time the following week.

Travel is real but not exhausting. Field engineers visit converters roughly one week per month; commercial managers run a similar rhythm with brand owners. Everyone else travels on demand for specific trials, never on a quota. We pay for premium-economy long-haul flights, single hotel rooms and same-day return when feasible.

How we interview

Step one is a 45-minute conversation with the hiring manager focused on motivation and a single deep dive into a real project from your past. Step two is a paid take-home or on-site exercise representative of the work — a colour-matching brief for the colour scientist roles, a defect-diagnosis exercise for application engineers, a customer-call simulation for commercial roles. Step three is a panel of two to three peers and a cross-functional partner. Step four is a final conversation with a leadership team member focused on values fit and answering your questions.

We commit to giving you a yes or no within five business days of the final step, and to providing written feedback whether you accept or decline. Salary ranges are shared at the start of the second step; we do not haggle, we publish a band and place candidates inside it based on calibrated levelling.

Benefits and the things we will not compromise on

Base salary is benchmarked at the 75th percentile of regional materials-industry data, refreshed annually. Annual variable pay is profit-share rather than individual MBO — when the company has a good year, everyone benefits proportionally to base. Equity is offered for senior technical and commercial roles after twelve months of tenure.

Healthcare and pension contributions match or exceed local statutory minimums in every country we hire in. Parental leave is sixteen weeks fully paid for the primary carer and six weeks fully paid for the secondary carer, regardless of gender, location or employment basis. We sponsor relocation for any role moving more than 100 km, including spouse job-search support.

We will not compromise on three things: code, documentation and lab discipline. Every chemistry result is logged in the electronic lab notebook the day it happens; every customer-facing document is reviewed by a second pair of eyes; every production change has a rollback plan written before deployment. If those habits sound exhausting, the role is probably not for you. If they sound like the way things should obviously work, please apply.

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