CAD/CAM Programmer
Posted 23 Jul 2026
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The original posting with the fluff stripped out
- Expected experience
- 3+ yrs
- Management level
- People management
- Employment
- On-Site
- Contract
- Full-time
No salary listed for this role.
Foundational Industries · SF Bay Area · Full-Time
About Foundational
Foundational is building a network of AI-native, autonomous factories for modern contract manufacturing — reshoring critical supply chains so companies can produce high-quality products domestically, quickly, and at competitive cost. Recent breakthroughs in robotics and physical AI have shifted autonomous manufacturing from theoretical to deployable. We are operationalizing these capabilities at scale during a decisive decade for American industrial leadership.
WHO — Who Thrives Here
At Foundational, we build with people who want to own something. Work that matters, in an environment where what you ship is what counts.
The people who thrive here:
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Take ownership before they are asked. They see the gap and close it.
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Operate with a high degree of judgment. We move fast, and good judgment travels farther than a playbook.
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Communicate directly — concise, clear, and candid, especially when stakes are high.
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Hold a high bar for themselves first, then for everyone around them.
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Are genuinely energized by hard problems in physical, real-world environments. Energized — not just interested.
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Stay effective when things are ambiguous, changing, or under pressure. That is the job.
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Care more about outcomes than status. No ego, no politics, no rigid thinking.
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Feel some personal connection to the mission. Reindustrializing America is not a tagline here — it is the work.
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Are resilient and willing to change direction. We will pivot. The job is solving the problem, not defending the plan.
This is a place for people who want to build something that has never existed before and leave a clear mark on it.
MISSION
You own the bridge between the shop floor and the software team. This role exists because great CAM automation can only be built by someone who has run the programs, argued with the post-processor, and watched chips fly. You will turn deep machining expertise into production-grade automated CAM software — and build the team and systems to keep it improving. If this role is empty, we are asking software engineers to guess what machinists need, and shipping code that does not hold up in the real world.
WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE IN 6–12 MONTHS