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Role Overview
You'll build software that connects engineering intelligence to leading CAD platforms, designing APIs, integrating CAD systems, and building backend services for AI-driven engineering workflows.
What You Will Do
Translate CAD models into machine-readable data, connect CAD platforms with cloud-native AI services, build scalable APIs, and develop Python services to automate engineering workflows.
Why It Might Be a Fit
You'll partner with researchers building next-generation Engineering AI, and have strong Python engineering skills, experience with commercial CAD APIs, and cloud-native applications.
Requirements
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
Experience building cloud-native applications, backend APIs, and data models
Benefits
Salary: $110,000 - $175,000 a year
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