Software Forward Deployed Engineer - Cincinnati
CoLab Software is hiring an on-site Software Forward Deployed Engineer in Cincinnati to embed with strategic customers, owning delivery of technically complex projects: building integrations, backend services, data pipelines, and AI features that connect enterprise systems (PLM, ERP, data lakes) to CoLab's AI-powered engineering review platform.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Cincinnati, Ohio
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Solutions engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Based in Cincinnati and comfortable working on site with customers
- Has delivered complex technical solutions where requirements were not clearly defined
- Writes clean, production-grade code in a variety of languages; language agnostic
- Comfortable working in unfamiliar technical and organizational environments
- Has worked with enterprise systems (e.g., data lakes, IdP, PLM, ERP)
- Can break down ambiguity, sequence work, and adjust scope without losing momentum
- Confident leading deeply technical conversations with customer engineering or IT teams
- Focused on delivering outcomes, not just writing code
- Has a 'go figure it out' mindset and adapts when things shift
Nice to have
- 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
Full description
About CoLab
At CoLab, we help mechanical engineering teams bring life-changing products to market years sooner.
We build AI for engineers designing cars, medical devices, and jet engines. Products this complex aren't sketched and sent to production. Teams spend months on iterations, reviews, and tests, predicting how every part performs before anything is built. CoLab is where those reviews happen, and we capture the rationale behind every change. Other tools show what changed between versions. Only CoLab knows why. That's how our AI helps manufacturers like Bobcat, Triumph Motorcycles, and GE Appliances make better decisions, eliminate rework cycles, and get to market faster.
Proudly based in St. John’s, Newfoundland, CoLab started with one customer in 2018. Since then we’ve raised a $72M Series C, been named the 57th fastest growing company in North America by Deloitte (Fast 500™), signed multi-year AI partnerships with companies like Bombardier, and grown to a team of 250+.
About the Role
We’re hiring a Software 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.
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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.