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ID BK18-2758890

Posted Oct 20, 2026

TITLE :

Head Programmer/ CNC Programmer

ENVIRONMENT

: Manufacturing

LOCATION

: Austin, TX Onsite

COMPENSATION RANGE

: $160,000.00

• $220,000.

00 DOQ

DEGREE REQUIREMENTS

: Bachelors Degree preferred

CITIZENSHIP

: Must be a U.S. Citizen or Green Card Holder and able to work for any U.S. Employer

RELOCATION PACKAGE

: Yes

EXPERIENCE LEVEL

: 5+ years experience

POSITION SUMMARY

We need an expert in Siemens NX CAM with 5+ years of experience — ideally someone who has worked as an NX applications engineer at a reseller, machine tool builder, or large aerospace shop — who can lead our CAD-to-CAM team and build the programming standard from scratch for our automated 5-axis CNC cells. You should be comfortable programming complex aerospace and defense parts yourself (titanium, Inconel, aluminum) and have a track record of training programmers, defining processes, and building probing stacks for lights-out production. Bonus points if you've managed a machine shop or programming team and have hands-on experience with post processors in NX Post Builder or Post Configurator.

Hard skills:

Expertise in Siemens NX, ​ CAM, ​ CNC manufacturing, ​ CNC programming, ​ and CNC milling Experience in in

• ​ process probing, ​ macro programming, ​ offset programming, ​ and in
• ​ cycle inspection (Heidenhain, ​ Siemens, ​ or Fanuc controls) Experience proving out programs on 5
• ​ axis machining centers US citizen or lawful permanent resident (ITAR compliant) We are a small team with momentum and resources.

You'll work directly with the Automation Engineer on tooling/workholding/pallet strategy and with software engineers who automate CAM workflows. It's a deeply integrated environment. Apply