Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Foundation EGI is a MIT-born, venture-backed Silicon Valley startup building a real-life 'Jarvis'—an AI Copilot for design and manufacturing. The CAD Integrations Backend Engineer will design APIs, integrate CAD systems with cloud-native infrastructure, and build backend systems to support AI-driven engineering workflows.
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
- 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 experience writing clean, scalable, and maintainable code
- Experience developing software integrations using commercial CAD APIs, such as Siemens NX Open, CATIA, SOLIDWORKS API, Creo Toolkit, Autodesk Inventor API, or similar engineering platforms
- 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 skills with the ability to collaborate across engineering, research, and product teams
- You've built software using at least one commercial CAD API: Siemens NX Open, CATIA, SOLIDWORKS API, Creo Toolkit, Autodesk Inventor API
- Experience developing CAD automation tools, plugins or engineering software integrations
- Familiarity with computational geometry, CAD workflows, PLM systems, or engineering data pipelines
- Experience working with large-scale 3D models, assemblies or complex engineering datasets
- Strong programming experience in C++ alongside Python
- Experience designing and implementing gRPC-based APIs and distributed services
- Experience building and deploying applications using Docker and Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Experience implementing logging, monitoring, observability, and production debugging practices
- Experience partnering with mechanical engineers, researchers, or AI/ML teams to build engineering applications
- Passion for building software at the intersection of CAD, Mechanical Engineering, Backend Systems, and Engineering AI
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