Forward Deployed Engineer

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

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.

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...

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.
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.

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
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
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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