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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 Mechanical Engineer to help shape the future of engineering collaboration.
This is not a traditional mechanical engineering role focused on designing physical products. Instead, you’ll work at the intersection of engineering, software, and customer problem-solving — helping ensure CoLab deeply understands how modern engineering teams actually work.
You’ll partner closely with Product, Engineering, Design, Sales, and Customer teams to bring real engineering context into everything we build. Your job is to help bridge the gap between complex engineering workflows and intuitive software experiences.
One day you might be helping a product team understand why a design review process breaks down between manufacturing and suppliers. Another day you could be reviewing CAD workflows with a customer, testing new product capabilities, or helping translate technical engineering challenges into product insights.
This role is ideal for someone who loves engineering problems, but also enjoys communication, systems thinking, and working across disciplines.
You probably won’t enjoy this role if you want highly repetitive work, narrowly scoped ownership, or an environment where engineering knowledge stays siloed. This role requires curiosity, initiative, and comfort operating in ambiguity.
The average person might think this role sounds unusual for a mechanical engineer. They’d be right. That’s part of what makes it interesting.
Our Ideal Candidate
You’re deeply curious about how products get designed, reviewed, and manufactured in the real world.
You understand the realities of engineering work — competing priorities, messy workflows, supplier coordination, revision cycles, and the pressure to catch problems early. But you also enjoy stepping back and thinking about how systems, tools, and processes could work better.
You communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical audiences. You ask good questions. You’re comfortable challenging assumptions respectfully, and you care more about solving the right problem than protecting your ego.
You’ll thrive here if you enjoy:
- Working across engineering, product, and customer-facing teams
- Learning quickly in ambiguous environments
- Thinking beyond individual parts or assemblies toward larger workflows and systems
- Helping shape the future of engineering tools and collaboration
Job Responsibilities
- Bring real-world engineering expertise into CoLab’s product development process
- Work closely with Product and Design teams to improve engineering workflows inside CoLab
- Partner with customers to understand design review challenges, collaboration bottlenecks, and process gaps
- Review and validate product concepts through an engineering lens
- Help translate complex technical workflows into clear product requirements and user insights
- Support customer conversations, product demos, and feedback sessions when deep engineering context is needed
- Collaborate cross-functionally to improve how engineering knowledge is captured and operationalized within CoLab
- Stay close to emerging trends in mechanical engineering workflows, CAD collaboration, and AI-assisted engineering tools
Qualifications
- Degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related discipline
- Experience working in product development, manufacturing, industrial equipment, automotive, aerospace, or related industries
- Familiarity with CAD systems and engineering review workflows
- Brought products to market
- Worked iteratively on designs
- Strong communication and problem-solving skills
- Ability to work cross-functionally with both technical and non-technical teams
- Curiosity, adaptability, and a strong learning mindset
Bonus points for:
- Experience with PLM, CAD collaboration, or engineering workflow software
- Exposure to design reviews, change management, or supplier collaboration processes
- Experience working with enterprise engineering teams
- Interest in AI and the future of engineering productivity tools
Extra Details
- This is a full-time, permanent position with a competitive compensation package that includes stock options.
- This role offers an extended health and benefits package that includes unlimited paid vacation and RRSP matching.
- Our main office location is in St. John’s, NL where we offer hybrid and remote opportunities.
- This role has the flexibility to work remotely from anywhere in North America.
Equity Note
Frequently cited statistics show that people who identify with historically marginalized groups are likely to apply to jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. We encourage you to help us break that statistic and apply even if you don’t meet every single qualification—your potential is what matters most to us.
Not the right fit? Search for Mechanical Engineer jobs in Canada, Remote
About CoLab Software
Your most critical product decisions are made everyday in design reviews.
But as products get more complex and teams become larger and more specialized, the design review process looks the same as it did 10-20 years ago.
So what happens?
-43% of design feedback is never documented or addressed -87% of engineering leaders say it takes hours or days to trace the rationale behind a single design decision -90% of companies have product launch delays due to late-stage design changes.
These problems won’t be solved by more meetings, better PLM workflows or increased pressure to keep slide decks and spreadsheets up-to-date. These are problems that require a completely new way for engineering teams to work together.
CoLab is a cloud based platform purpose built for fast, effective design review. Using CoLab, multiple engineers, designers, and other stakeholders can review designs together and build off one another's feedback.
CoLab makes it easy to review the right data (including CAD) with all the right people, capture useful feedback, and track issues through to action. CoLab pulls together design discussions previously lost in emails, spreadsheets, and notebooks into a single platform that integrates back into PLM. We call it a Design Engagement System.
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About the role
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 Mechanical Engineer to help shape the future of engineering collaboration.
This is not a traditional mechanical engineering role focused on designing physical products. Instead, you’ll work at the intersection of engineering, software, and customer problem-solving — helping ensure CoLab deeply understands how modern engineering teams actually work.
You’ll partner closely with Product, Engineering, Design, Sales, and Customer teams to bring real engineering context into everything we build. Your job is to help bridge the gap between complex engineering workflows and intuitive software experiences.
One day you might be helping a product team understand why a design review process breaks down between manufacturing and suppliers. Another day you could be reviewing CAD workflows with a customer, testing new product capabilities, or helping translate technical engineering challenges into product insights.
This role is ideal for someone who loves engineering problems, but also enjoys communication, systems thinking, and working across disciplines.
You probably won’t enjoy this role if you want highly repetitive work, narrowly scoped ownership, or an environment where engineering knowledge stays siloed. This role requires curiosity, initiative, and comfort operating in ambiguity.
The average person might think this role sounds unusual for a mechanical engineer. They’d be right. That’s part of what makes it interesting.
Our Ideal Candidate
You’re deeply curious about how products get designed, reviewed, and manufactured in the real world.
You understand the realities of engineering work — competing priorities, messy workflows, supplier coordination, revision cycles, and the pressure to catch problems early. But you also enjoy stepping back and thinking about how systems, tools, and processes could work better.
You communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical audiences. You ask good questions. You’re comfortable challenging assumptions respectfully, and you care more about solving the right problem than protecting your ego.
You’ll thrive here if you enjoy:
- Working across engineering, product, and customer-facing teams
- Learning quickly in ambiguous environments
- Thinking beyond individual parts or assemblies toward larger workflows and systems
- Helping shape the future of engineering tools and collaboration
Job Responsibilities
- Bring real-world engineering expertise into CoLab’s product development process
- Work closely with Product and Design teams to improve engineering workflows inside CoLab
- Partner with customers to understand design review challenges, collaboration bottlenecks, and process gaps
- Review and validate product concepts through an engineering lens
- Help translate complex technical workflows into clear product requirements and user insights
- Support customer conversations, product demos, and feedback sessions when deep engineering context is needed
- Collaborate cross-functionally to improve how engineering knowledge is captured and operationalized within CoLab
- Stay close to emerging trends in mechanical engineering workflows, CAD collaboration, and AI-assisted engineering tools
Qualifications
- Degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related discipline
- Experience working in product development, manufacturing, industrial equipment, automotive, aerospace, or related industries
- Familiarity with CAD systems and engineering review workflows
- Brought products to market
- Worked iteratively on designs
- Strong communication and problem-solving skills
- Ability to work cross-functionally with both technical and non-technical teams
- Curiosity, adaptability, and a strong learning mindset
Bonus points for:
- Experience with PLM, CAD collaboration, or engineering workflow software
- Exposure to design reviews, change management, or supplier collaboration processes
- Experience working with enterprise engineering teams
- Interest in AI and the future of engineering productivity tools
Extra Details
- This is a full-time, permanent position with a competitive compensation package that includes stock options.
- This role offers an extended health and benefits package that includes unlimited paid vacation and RRSP matching.
- Our main office location is in St. John’s, NL where we offer hybrid and remote opportunities.
- This role has the flexibility to work remotely from anywhere in North America.
Equity Note
Frequently cited statistics show that people who identify with historically marginalized groups are likely to apply to jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. We encourage you to help us break that statistic and apply even if you don’t meet every single qualification—your potential is what matters most to us.
Not the right fit? Search for Mechanical Engineer jobs in Canada, Remote
About CoLab Software
Your most critical product decisions are made everyday in design reviews.
But as products get more complex and teams become larger and more specialized, the design review process looks the same as it did 10-20 years ago.
So what happens?
-43% of design feedback is never documented or addressed -87% of engineering leaders say it takes hours or days to trace the rationale behind a single design decision -90% of companies have product launch delays due to late-stage design changes.
These problems won’t be solved by more meetings, better PLM workflows or increased pressure to keep slide decks and spreadsheets up-to-date. These are problems that require a completely new way for engineering teams to work together.
CoLab is a cloud based platform purpose built for fast, effective design review. Using CoLab, multiple engineers, designers, and other stakeholders can review designs together and build off one another's feedback.
CoLab makes it easy to review the right data (including CAD) with all the right people, capture useful feedback, and track issues through to action. CoLab pulls together design discussions previously lost in emails, spreadsheets, and notebooks into a single platform that integrates back into PLM. We call it a Design Engagement System.