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Founding Machinist

Foundation Industries
San Francisco, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 7/8/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 9/3/2026

We're hiring 2 machinists at Foundation Industries. Our customers are frontier hardware companies building rockets, robots, and technology that doesn't exist yet. They move fast. Their supply base doesn't. Foundation Industries exists to build a supply base that moves as fast as the companies we serve.

To do that, we need world-class machinists.


What we're looking for:

• 3 years of CNC machining experience

• 5-axis machining experience; you know your way around complex geometry

• CAM proficiency; we don't care what software, we care that you know how to program

• Someone who moves fast and doesn't cut corners doing it

• A self-starter ready to be part of something being built from the ground up


What you get:

• Full-time, in-person role (Redwood City, CA), working on parts for the coolest hardware companies in the world

• $80,000–$100,000 salary equity

• A team that's serious about reindustrialization


Know a great machinist? $1,000 finder's fee for any referral we hire.


Apply below


Let's build.

Salary : $80,000 - $100,000

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