At CoLab, we help mechanical engineering teams bring life-changing products to market years sooner.
CoLab is the AI platform for driving stronger product development decisions. Every design review in CoLab builds a knowledge repository of design feedback, decisions, and lessons learned - with AI agents flagging design issues before they compound. 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.
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. You will help inform product decision making through the lens of an expert Mechanical Engineer. This helps 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 navigating complex data systems and processes while working cross-disciplinary.,
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.
You’re an expert on how products get designed, reviewed, and manufactured in the real world.
You understand intrinsically the realities of engineering work — competing priorities, messy workflows, supplier coordination, revision cycles, and risk management. 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:
Bonus points for:
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.
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, can analyze designs for you and spot 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.
