nTop

nTop builds software that helps engineers create and manage complex 3D geometry for product development and manufacturing. Its platform is best known for using an implicit modelling approach, which is designed to make it easier to generate lightweight structures, lattices, and other performance driven designs that can be difficult to handle with traditional CAD workflows. The problem it tackles is a familiar one in advanced engineering teams, as products are getting more complex, simulation and optimisation are more common, and additive manufacturing introduces new design possibilities that older toolchains can struggle to represent, edit, or automate reliably.

The company’s users are typically engineering and R and D teams working on high performance parts and systems, including organisations exploring additive manufacturing and design for advanced production methods. You can reasonably expect its software to be used by mechanical and manufacturing engineers, computational designers, and teams that need to move from concept through analysis and into production with repeatable, parameter driven geometry. Because the work sits close to real world constraints such as material behaviour, manufacturability, and performance targets, the product is likely to be used in environments where accuracy, traceability, and integration with existing engineering processes matter.

Within the broader SaaS and engineering software landscape, nTop sits in the specialist CAD and computational design space, with strong links to simulation, generative design, and digital manufacturing. Rather than being a horizontal business SaaS tool, it is a deep technical product that needs to fit into established engineering ecosystems, including interoperability with other design and analysis tools. For job seekers, that often means the company’s success depends not only on building a strong core modelling engine, but also on developer experience, integrations, documentation, and the practical realities of how engineers work day to day.

People who thrive at nTop are likely to enjoy technically demanding problems and collaborating with domain experts. Software engineers with experience in geometry, graphics, numerical methods, performance optimisation, and robust desktop or cloud architectures may find the work engaging, as might product managers and designers who can translate complex engineering needs into usable workflows. There is also likely to be room for roles that bridge engineering and customer outcomes, such as solutions engineering, technical support, and documentation, where credibility with engineers and an ability to explain sophisticated concepts clearly are important.

What may appeal to candidates is the chance to work on a product that sits at the intersection of software and advanced manufacturing, where improvements can have a tangible impact on how physical products are designed and made. If you like environments where technical depth is valued, where customers are experts in their own right, and where product decisions are shaped by real engineering constraints, nTop is the kind of company that could be a strong fit.