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

CoLab is a cloud‑based platform for engineering design review. We make it easy for subject‑matter experts (SMEs) across your business to access, evaluate, and comment on 2D drawings and 3D models. Our built‑in AI peer checker, AutoReview, scans designs for common errors or non‑compliance with your standards and guidelines. AutoReview creates markups and comments on your files, in context – just like a human checker.

With CoLab, human SMEs and AI work together to help you make better decisions and improve designs faster. We automatically capture knowledge from across your global business that would otherwise be buried in emails, spreadsheets, slide decks, and unknown locations in SharePoint or PLM. Then, we make sure every lesson learned and every design guideline is applied exactly when it matters.

Companies like Johnson Controls, Komatsu, Schaeffler, and Polaris have launched products 40% faster, cut BOM costs by 50%,



and reduced quality escapes by 15% in 1 year.

About the Role

This role is for a high‑impact engineering leader who has been in the trenches at fast‑scaling startups – someone who has grown from individual contributor to leader and helped scale engineering orgs through multiple phases of growth. Ideally, you’ve done it more than once.

As VP of Software Engineering, you’ll be responsible for building and maintaining a high‑performing, scalable engineering organization across Product Development, Ops, and Technical Support. This is a role for someone who’s hands‑on enough to spot an issue in a pull request, and strategic enough to influence long‑term roadmap, product vision, and cross‑functional priorities.

You’ll partner closely with Product and Design to ship outstanding software faster, with fewer surprises. You’ll also work directly with customers and support our GTM motion, stepping in when

📌 VP of Software Engineering (Canada)
🏢 Colab Software
📍 Canada