Mechanical Forward Deployed Engineer - Switzerland

<h3><strong>About CoLab</strong></h3> <p>At CoLab, we help mechanical engineering teams bring life-changing products to market years sooner.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Proudly based in St. John’s, Newfoundland, CoLab started with one customer in 2018. Since then we’ve raised a<a href="https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-wire-news-releases-pmn/ai-is-changing-engineering-colab-just-raised-72m-to-lead-the-transformation"> $72M Series C</a>, been named the 57th fastest growing company in North America by Deloitte (<a href="https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-wire-news-releases-pmn/colab-ranked-number-57-fastest-growing-company-in-north-america-on-the-2025-deloitte-technology-fast-500">Fast 500™</a>), signed multi-year<a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-bombardier-signs-contract-colab-ai-software/"> AI partnerships with companies like Bombardier</a>, and grown to a team of 250+.</p> <h3><strong>About the Role</strong></h3> <p>This is a high-impact role that helps define how CoLab delivers technical value to its most strategic customers in Aerospace and Defence. CoLab is a category-creating product, which means adoption isn't just a rollout. It's a change in how the organization works.</p> <p>In this role, you'd act as a trusted advisor, leveraging people, process, and technology to help teams rethink how they manage feedback, data, and decision-making across design and PLM. That means getting deep into customer workflows, testing new ways of working, and building repeatable methods the rest of the team can scale.</p> <p>You'll work alongside a Customer Success Manager, and use what you learn on the front line to help shape product direction. This role isn't about selling or pitching. It's about deeply understanding engineering problems and solving them alongside the customer.</p> <p>We are looking for a candidate in Switzerland to work regularly on-site with local CoLab customers.</p> <h2>Our Ideal Candidate</h2> <p>You’re a mechanical engineer by trade and have worked as a designer in an A&amp;D company. You also understand the full product development life cycle: how design, manufacturing, quality, and engineering leadership