Laborup

CNC Lathe Programmer

Laborup  •  $40 - $52/hr  •  San Jose, CA (Onsite)  •  20 hours ago
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Job Description

We’re hiring an experienced Multi-Axis CNC Lathe Programmer to join a rapidly growing, high-end precision manufacturer supporting aerospace, defense, and other advanced industries.

This is a multi-campus manufacturing operation in the San Jose area with modern, climate-controlled facilities, advanced CNC technology, and significant growth plans. The company is continuing to invest in its equipment, capabilities, and people as it takes on increasingly complex aerospace and defense programs.

This role is ideal for a programmer who wants to work on complex, tight-tolerance components rather than repetitive production. You’ll own jobs from print/model through programming, tooling and workholding strategy, prove-out, first article, and production optimization.

Logistics & Compensation:

  • $40-52/hr depending on experience
  • First Shift
  • 50-hour workweek with consistent overtime
  • Performance bonuses paid twice annually

Responsibilities:

  • Develop, prove out, and optimize programs for multi-axis CNC lathes and mill-turn equipment
  • Program complex turning operations including live tooling, C/Y-axis machining, sub-spindle work, threading, grooving, boring, drilling, and milling
  • Develop complete machining strategies from CAD models, engineering drawings, and GD&T
  • Select tooling, inserts, workholding, speeds, feeds, and operation sequences
  • Support machine setups, first articles, and new-part prove-outs
  • Troubleshoot programming, tooling, workholding, dimensional, and machining issues directly on the shop floor
  • Optimize processes to improve cycle time, tool life, setup time, repeatability, and scrap
  • Partner with machinists, engineering, and quality to successfully move new jobs into production

Requirements

  • 7+ years of CNC machining/programming experience
  • Strong experience programming multi-axis CNC lathes or mill-turn machines
  • Strong G-code and CAM programming knowledge
  • Experience with Mastercam, Siemens NX, Fusion 360, or similar CAM software
  • Strong understanding of GD&T, tooling, workholding, speeds/feeds, and tight-tolerance machining
  • Ability to independently develop a machining process from print/model through production
  • Comfortable working directly at the machine during setup, prove-out, and troubleshooting
  • Aerospace, defense, medical device, semiconductor, or similar high-precision manufacturing experience preferred

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision
  • 401(k) + match
  • PTO

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About Laborup

Laborup is the #1 AI powered talent platform for America’s industrial workforce. We use AI to create jobs, not take them away. We help HR and plant leaders hire and keep the skilled workers who keep plants running: machinists, welders, maintenance techs, operators, industrial electricians, and engineers. USA Today called us the “LinkedIn for blue collar workers,” and Forbes profiled our work in “How AI Is Solving America’s 1 Trillion Dollar Manufacturing Labor Crisis.”

Today we work with manufacturers from 50 person shops to large public companies with tens of thousands of employees, and the story is the same everywhere. It is hard to find talent, hard to keep good people, and staffing costs keep rising. In a market where filling critical industrial roles can take months and turnover is constant, Laborup helps teams move qualified workers from first contact to on site interview in days instead of weeks and keep them on the floor longer.

Most of the workers our customers need are not on LinkedIn or the usual job boards. Laborup uses AI to find this hidden workforce, call and text them, screen and qualify them, build real profiles, and match them directly to the plants and roles where they can succeed. For workers, that means real, permanent roles at serious manufacturers, not one off gigs. For companies, it is durable infrastructure for hiring and retention at scale in a labor market that will stay tight for years.

We work across nuclear, defense, and advanced manufacturing, as well as sectors like aerospace, automotive, and food production. Teams that use Laborup hire 5 to 10 times faster, see around 3 times better retention, and cut cost per hire by up to 50 to 70 percent. That turns into fewer empty shifts, fewer missed orders, more stable teams, and more capacity without more headache.

We are building the modern talent system for America’s industrial base with a simple long term goal: put a billion industrial workers to work in good jobs that matter.

Industry
Retail & Ecommerce
Company Size
11-50 employees
Headquarters
Knoxville
Year Founded
Unknown
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