Mechanical Forward Deployed Engineer, Switzerland — Equity

F5 Remote Jobs; Sankt Gallen; Hybrid; CHF 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Unlimited paid vacation

Extended health benefits

Job summary

CoLab Software in Switzerland is seeking a Mechanical Forward Deployed Engineer to define how our AI helps aerospace and defence customers rethink feedback, data, and decision-making across design and PLM. You’ll work on-site with local customers, acting as a trusted advisor to integrate people, process and technology.

You’ll join a cross-functional team, learn customer workflows, and help scale repeatable methods.

Qualifications

• Background in mechanical design engineering, ideally in a medium- to large-sized organization.
• Strong understanding of PLM & ERP systems and enterprise engineering data architecture.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical projects and cross-functional collaborations.
• Experience working directly with customers or internal stakeholders to solve technical problems.

Responsibilities

• Mapping a customer’s current-state design review and engineering workflows, and defining the target-state process their teams will actually adopt.
• Deploying and tuning CoLab's AI capabilities against a customer's own standards, drawing checklists, and design guidelines, and diagnosing what's working and what isn't.
• Providing mechanical engineering expertise to validate AI-generated results and ensure engineering rigor.
• Investigating and solving complex engineering data and integration challenges across PLM, ERP, QMS, and traditional design feedback tools.
• Expanding adoption into new teams, programs, and sites within the account, partnering with the Customer Success Manager on where the next opportunity sits.
• Collaborating with product teams to identify feature gaps, improve capabilities, and refine AutoReview.

Skills

Mechanical design engineering

PLM & ERP knowledge

Lead technical projects

Customer-facing problem solving

AI architecture awareness

APIs & data integrations

Switzerland residency

Tools

APIs

Data integrations

Enterprise architecture concepts

Job description

CoLab Software in Switzerland is seeking a Mechanical Forward Deployed Engineer to define how our AI helps aerospace and defence customers rethink feedback, data, and decision-making across design and PLM. You’ll work on-site with local customers, acting as a trusted advisor to integrate people, process and technology.

You’ll join a cross-functional team, learn customer workflows, and help scale repeatable methods.