Backend Engineer: CAD Automation & AI Workflows

Foundation EGI; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Foundation EGI is seeking a backend software engineer to build systems that connect CAD platforms with cloud-native AI services, focusing on Python-based services and CAD automation.

You will design APIs, integrate Siemens NX Open, CATIA, and SOLIDWORKS APIs, and manage CAD assemblies and engineering metadata. This role blends software engineering with CAD automation and backend architecture in a fast-growing startup.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of experience building and maintaining backend services and production software.
• Strong Python engineering skills with clean, scalable, maintainable code.
• Experience with commercial CAD APIs such as Siemens NX Open, CATIA, SOLIDWORKS API, Creo Toolkit, Autodesk Inventor API.
• Experience building cloud-native applications, backend APIs, and data models (including Protobuf).
• Experience working with 3D engineering data, CAD models, assemblies, and related engineering file formats.
• Strong written and verbal communication across engineering, research, and product teams.
• You’ve built software using at least one commercial CAD API.

Responsibilities

• Translate CAD models into machine-readable engineering data.
• Connect Siemens NX, CATIA, SOLIDWORKS and other CAD platforms with cloud-native AI services.
• Build scalable APIs that allow engineering applications to exchange geometry and metadata.
• Develop Python services that automate complex engineering workflows.
• Design backend systems that manage CAD assemblies, parts, configurations and engineering metadata.
• Partner with researchers building next-generation Engineering AI.

Skills

Backend development

Python

Cloud-native

Protobuf

Engineering data

Education

BS/MS in Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field

Tools

Siemens NX Open

CATIA

SOLIDWORKS API

Creo Toolkit

Autodesk Inventor API

Job description

Foundation EGI is seeking a backend software engineer to build systems that connect CAD platforms with cloud-native AI services, focusing on Python-based services and CAD automation.

You will design APIs, integrate Siemens NX Open, CATIA, and SOLIDWORKS APIs, and manage CAD assemblies and engineering metadata. This role blends software engineering with CAD automation and backend architecture in a fast-growing startup.