CAD Integrations Backend Engineer for AI-Driven Design

Remote; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Remote is seeking a seasoned software engineer to connect CAD platforms with cloud-native AI services, designing APIs and backend systems. You will build Python services to automate engineering workflows and manage CAD data, enabling scalable, AI-powered engineering applications.

This role combines software engineering, CAD automation, and backend architecture, requiring collaboration with researchers and product teams to accelerate design and manufacturing.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years building and maintaining backend services and production software.
• Strong Python engineering skills with clean, scalable, maintainable code.
• Experience integrating CAD APIs such as Siemens NX Open, CATIA, SOLIDWORKS, Creo Toolkit, or Inventor.

Responsibilities

• Translate CAD models into machine-readable engineering data.
• Connect CAD platforms with cloud-native AI services.
• Build scalable backend APIs to exchange geometry and metadata.
• Develop Python services to automate complex engineering workflows.
• Design backend systems managing CAD assemblies, parts, configurations and metadata.
• Collaborate with researchers building Engineering AI.

Skills

Backend development

Python

Cloud-native

Communication

Protobuf

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

Remote is seeking a seasoned software engineer to connect CAD platforms with cloud-native AI services, designing APIs and backend systems. You will build Python services to automate engineering workflows and manage CAD data, enabling scalable, AI-powered engineering applications.

This role combines software engineering, CAD automation, and backend architecture, requiring collaboration with researchers and product teams to accelerate design and manufacturing.