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Forward Deployed Engineer

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Delivered complex technical solutions for projects with undefined requirements
  • Writes clean, production-grade code in various programming languages
  • Comfortable working in unfamiliar technical and organizational environments
  • Experienced with enterprise systems such as data lakes, PLM, or ERP

Responsibilities

  • Own delivery of strategic customer projects from technical discovery to production deployment
  • Build and deploy complex system integrations, backend services, and data pipelines
  • Interface with enterprise systems and organize incoming data for use in features
  • Collaborate directly with customers to understand needs and propose solutions

Key facts

Other skills

  • Problem Solving
  • Communication
  • Adaptability

About the company

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CoLab Software

Computer Software / SaaS

Engineers need better tools for working together. CAD and PLM systems aren’t built for the design conversations where collaboration truly happens. So engineers go outside of them, using emails and slideshows to get the job done. But when these critical design discussions live in siloed, manual tools, you’re missing vital insights on why engineering decisions are being made, what needs to improve, and how to steer your people in the right direction. After struggling with the traditional email, PowerPoint, and screenshot-driven collaboration process used by over 90% of manufacturing teams today, our founders made a decision: if better tools didn’t exist, they’d build them. And so CoLab began. CoLab is a web-based collaboration tool that lets your team share CAD, provide feedback with full mechanical context, and capture the critical design data that your other systems don’t—giving you a design review and collaboration process that’s standardized, simplified, and twice-as-fast. Today CoLab is trusted by Fortune 500 companies like Johnson Controls and Hyundai Mobis, who use the platform to accelerate design cycles by 51%, drive continuous improvement, and reduce product costs and changes. See how we’re changing the way engineers work together at www.colabsoftware.com

Company details

Company typeScaleup
IndustryComputer Software / SaaS
Company size51 - 200

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Job description

About CoLab

At CoLab, we help mechanical engineering teams bring life-changing products to market years sooner.

CoLab is the AI platform for driving stronger engineering decisions. Every design review in CoLab builds a knowledge repository of design feedback, decisions, and lessons learned - which AI agents draw from to flag issues on future designs before they compound. The more your team works in CoLab, the smarter it gets and the faster you arrive at the ideal design. Companies like Ford, Komatsu, and Johnson Controls use CoLab to catch issues earlier, eliminate rework cycles, and bring products to market faster.

Founded in St. John’s, Newfoundland, CoLab has grown quickly from our first customer in 2019 to a rapidly scaling company. We’ve recently been recognized on Deloitte’s Fast 50™ and Fast 500™, and named a Canadian company to watch by The Globe and Mail and Financial Post.

About the Role

We’re hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to embed within our strategic customers and deliver on high-impact, technically complex customer projects. This includes scoping, building, and deploying complex integrations, product features and AI product features that connect customer systems to CoLab, accelerate adoption and increase customer return on investment.

You’ll own delivery of key customer initiatives, working closely with our customer success, product, design and engineering teams, as well as leadership team stakeholders to remove blockers and deliver results.

Unlike a traditional software development role, FDEs must manage significant ambiguity, external team dynamics, and timeline pressure. If you like working directly with customers and shipping code to solve real, complex user problems with a high level agency and autonomy, then you will thrive in this role.

 

What You’ll Do

  • Own delivery of strategic customer projects, from technical discovery through to production deployment and success measures
  • Build and deploy complex system integrations, backend services, and data pipelines
  • Interface with enterprise systems, including data lakes, identity management and access controls solutions, and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions
  • Stand up CoLab integrations and organize incoming data to enable use in features like AutoReview and Operator
  • Collaborate directly with customers to understand needs, propose solutions, and guide adoption
  • Develop targeted solutions that meet the specific Customer's requirements whilst ensuring solutions are designed and developed with our broader customer base in mind.
  • Bring your extensive knowledge of our Customer's requirements back to the development team for learning.

 

Our Ideal Candidate

  • You’ve delivered complex technical solutions for projects where requirements were not clearly defined
  • You write clean, production-grade code in a variety of languages and consider yourself language agnostic
  • You’re comfortable working in unfamiliar environments - both technically and organizationally
  • You’ve worked with enterprise systems (e.g., data lakes, IdP, PLM, ERP, etc)
  • You can break down ambiguity, sequence work, and adjust scope without losing momentum
  • You’re confident leading deeply technical conversations with customer engineering or IT teams
  • You care about delivering outcomes, not just writing code
  • You have a “go figure it out” mindset and can roll with the punches when things shift

Bonus Experience

  • Prior work embedding within customer environments as part of enterprise SaaS deployments
  • Experience building or integrating AI-powered features
  • Familiarity with manufacturing or engineering data, processes, or systems
  • Experience with API-first products or developer platforms

Extra Details

  • This is a full-time, permanent position with a competitive compensation package that includes, base salary, as well as performance-based commission and stock options
  • Includes extended health benefits, unlimited vacation, and RRSP/401k matching
  • You can work remotely from anywhere in Canada or the US, Eastern time zone preferred

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