Who you are

- You're the kind of developer who wants to understand why a feature matters before deciding how to build it

- You enjoy owning complex technical problems, but you also enjoy talking with product managers, designers, and customers to understand what success actually looks like

- You make thoughtful technical decisions independently and know when to bring others into the conversation

- Experience working with simulation software is a significant advantage. Maybe you've worked with FEA, CFD, multiphysics simulations, scientific visualization, or engineering data platforms

- You understand the kinds of problems engineers are trying to solve

- This is a good fit for someone who likes ambiguity, wants to work closely with our product and leadership teams, and cares about the connection between technical decisions and customer value

- 8+ years building production software in a contemporary engineering environment

- Strong experience designing scalable backend systems and customer-facing applications

- Experience building complex data visualization or graphics-intensive applications
- The ability to work independently while collaborating closely with teammates
- A product mindset - you think about customer outcomes as much as technical implementation

- Robust communication skills and the ability to explain complex ideas clearly

- Experience with Finite Element Analysis (FEA), CFD, or other CAE workflows

- Experience with engineering simulation platforms

- Experience with CAD, PLM, or engineering software development

- Large engineering datasets and high-performance rendering

- Apply even if you don't meet every single qualification - your potential is what matters most to us

What the job involves

- Modern engineering teams invest a significant amount of time and money on simulation

- Before anything gets built,



teams need confidence that a design is going to work: structurally, thermally, aerodynamically, etc

- Simulation is one of the main ways they build that confidence. But the way teams share and review simulation results to make decisions is still pretty broken

- Engineers are exporting videos, taking screenshots, dropping them into PowerPoint, and then trying to make decisions through email threads, meetings, or disconnected slide decks
- The actual decision-making ends up separated from the underlying simulation data, which means context gets lost, feedback is hard to trace, and important engineering knowledge disappears into the workflow

- CoLab already helps engineering teams review CAD, capture feedback, and make better design decisions in one connected workspace

- Now we’re extending that same idea into simulation.

The goal is simple: make simulation results collaborative, reviewable, and traceable in the same way CoLab does for CAD today

- We’re starting a new product team focused on bringing simulation review into CoLab

- As one of the first engineers on that team, you’ll help define how simulation data gets ingested, visualized, discussed, and connected back to real engineering decisions

- There are a lot of interesting technical problems here: large datasets, high-performance visualization, viewer interactions, data pipelines, and user experiences that need to work for mechanical engineers doing critical product development work
- The first phase is about learning the product,



the customers, and the review workflows we already support today

- You’ll spend time embedded with our Engineering Reviews team, learning how engineers collaborate in CoLab, where the current product is strong, and where simulation creates a recent set of problems we need to solve

- From there, you’ll help build the foundation for a new Simulation team - not just technically, but from a product perspective as well

- We want to build something customers actually need and will use in their day-to-day work, and that requires a highly product oriented approach

- You’ll have a meaningful role in shaping both the architecture and the user experience for a new capability that we think can become a major part of engineering review in CoLab

- Help design and build CoLab's next-generation simulation review capabilities

- Build services that ingest and process simulation data from industry-standard engineering software

- Develop high-performance visualization experiences capable of displaying large simulation datasets

- Partner closely with Product, Design, and customers to validate ideas before building them

- Spend time embedded with the Engineering Reviews team to develop deep product and customer understanding before transitioning onto the Simulation team

- Contribute to architectural decisions that will shape this product area for years to come

- Improve performance, scalability, and reliability as simulation capabilities grow

- Collaborate with engineers across the platform to ensure simulation becomes a seamless part of the broader CoLab experience

Perks

- Health and dental insurance (covered at 100% for the employee)

- Unlimited PTO
- Remote/Hybrid Work: Our main office location is in St. John's, NL where we offer hybrid and remote opportunities

📌 Senior Software Developer (Canada)
🏢 Colab Software
📍 Canada