About the role
About Forge:
Forge builds automated CNC factories that enable mechanical engineers to go from CAD to physical part 2x faster than anyone else. We take engineer's ideas and turn them into finished prototypes within 4 days or less. We’ve been running factories for 2 years and we have shipped thousands of parts to engineers all over North America, to some of the biggest tech companies in the world.
We're looking for people who are interested in manufacturing and speeding up hardware development, and who want to apply their technical skills to help us build more leverage and tools to make our shop even more efficient.
What we are building:
We are building the most efficient machine shop in the world, and powering that is a wide and versatile software stack that we develop almost completely in house. In order to serve the caliber of customers that we have at the speed we do, we’ve built some cool software:
- A web system to interact with the outside world and to manage as much of our internal operations as possible through clean “live-updating” UI when humans are needed and through agentic workflows when they are not.
- Our own cloud based automated CAM/DFM software that makes intelligent decisions and stream lines our quoting and manufacturing process. This includes everything from the feature extraction, process planning, all the way to tool path and gcode generation.
- Embedded devices attached to each CNC machine we use to augment the control of the machine and to stream telemetry up to our web app. We also use these embedded devices for custom screens to display to guide our operators through a manufacturing process.
Customers log onto our website, upload STEP files to receive an instant quote, and then pay online. We then have four days to ship those parts out, so all the other software we write is about making it possible to do that. Give it a try at www.forgejobshop.com!
